Pharmacy Technician

Job Summary:

The Pharmacy Technician - Medication Management Specialist will perform various pharmacy-related duties for the Pharmacy Department, including maintaining medication supplies, ordering drugs from the supply department, and stocking medications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Order drugs from the supply department, except class II narcotics.
• Responsible for keeping the supply of medications needed on hand.
• Keeps narcotic files on nursing units and emergency room up to date.
• Prepare off-schedule drug requisitions as necessary and checks the status of backorder drugs.
• Perform some clerical duties in the absence of clerical staff.
• Responsible for collecting data and writing reports as assigned.
• Shelves and stores all incoming drugs and supplies, assuring that all items requiring special handling receive the same and maintain proper stock rotation.
• Provides warehousing activities to maximize efficiency, so storage space is used with maximum efficiency per the pharmacy storage plan.
• Stocks and maintains the emergency drug carts by utilizing a prepared checklist.
• Maintain an adequate working shelf stock of drugs in the pharmacy's dispensing area.
• Inventories and maintains the night drug cabinet stock in the emergency room.
• Responsible for maintaining the pharmacies and storage areas in a neat, clean, and orderly condition.
• Independently fills inpatient and outpatient drug requisitions from prepackaged stock containers and original stock containers.
• Check all nursing drug storage areas for expired drugs.
• Prepackage drugs from bulk containers to smaller outpatient dispensing units for use in filling prescriptions.
• Strip packaged medications used in the operation of the inpatient unit dose drug distribution system.
• Responsible for printing all labels used in the prepackaging process.
• Counts and pours drugs used in the filling of a prescription.
• Routinely calls patients to the outpatient pharmacy consultation rooms.
• Prepare sterile intravenous admixtures and chemotherapeutic agents; light checks all intravenous solutions and admixtures issued through the pharmacy.
• Bulks compound pharmaceutical preparations such as ointment, solutions, etc.
• Operate inpatient and outpatient pharmacies' computers, the hospital computer system, and PC's.
• Contribute to a team effort.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• High School diploma or General Education Diploma.
• Certificate as a Pharmacy Technician or one-year prior experience as a Pharmacy Technician/Aid.
• Certified Pharmacy Technician preferred.
• May require possessing and maintaining a valid driver's license (no DUIs or major traffic citations within the last three years).
• Based on the department's needs, incumbents may be required to demonstrate fluency in both the Tohono O'odham language and English as a condition of employment.