Pharmacist Technician

**Labor Category**:Pharmacist Technician**
- **Degree/Education (5.2.4)**:Graduate from a formal pharmacy technician program accredited by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) or a formal pharmacy technician program (i.e., technical, hospital, or retail-based program) or a formal medical services training program of the United States Military.
- **Certifications in addition to Basic Life Support (5.2.3)**
- **Experience**:One year of experience as a pharmacy technician after graduation.
- **Board Certification**:Certified by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB).
- **Licensure/Registration**:Current, full, active, and unrestricted license to practice as a pharmacist technician.

***HCW Duties (5.1 Task 1)**: The duties for the HCW are as follows:

- Perform a full range of pharmacy technician procedures.
- Perform pharmaceutical dispensing duties including filling new outpatient prescriptions, refilling prescriptions, and entering orders into databases.
- Perform information consultation duties including supporting new and refill prescriptions, supporting patient requests, supporting physician’s requests, monitoring for drug interactions, and reporting adverse drug reactions.
- Perform quality improvement duties including performing drug storage inspection, reviewing expired supplies, and producing error and workload reports and documentation.
- Perform supply process duties including placing new orders, stocking/restocking shelves, inventory maintenance, producing not in stock reports.
- Have a thorough understanding of patient queueing system and how patients utilize that system.
- Understand that the patient’s safety is our number one focus, followed by outstanding customer service.
- Process over the counter medication requests in conjunction with the Self-Initiated Care Kit program.