Pharmacy Technician

The Pharmacy Technician position is located at the Woodrow Wilson Keeble Memorial Health Care Center, Sisseton, South Dakota. The Pharmacy Technician assists the pharmacists and received medication orders, interprets the orders, fills the medication and dispenses medication to the patient or patient proxy if no counseling is needed. Incumbent works with the Pharmacist on medication inventory management.

• Assists the pharmacist in patient care activities. Performs the technical processes entailed in processing and dispensing medications to patients.
• Manages the regular program of supply procurement and supply management. This includes assessment of need, preparing purchase orders and requests, placing computer generated or phone orders to prime vendor or wholesalers, receiving drugs into the pharmacy, taking periodic inventories of stock.
• Performs maintenance functions on automated equipment. Runs daily operational and pharmacy reports and performs a variety of quality assurance/quality improvement activities. Monitors the patient data input into the RPMS Point-of-Sale (POS) system, assures the accuracy of patient data and appropriateness of billing information so that correct billing documents are produced. Assists pharmacist with scheduling patients and data entry for pharmacy-managed clinics, including immunization, anticoagulation, and tobacco cessation.