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Position:	Pharmacy Technician (Ref: 16864)
Location:	Nashville, TN 37214 United States
Duration:	2 Years 0 Months 26 Days - Contract
Openings:	1
Deadline:	01/18/2025
Pay Rate:	Login

Description:

***Onsite

We are seeking a Pharmacy Technician.

Dispensing Medication - Dispenses medication under the supervision of a pharmacist.

Action Steps:
• Investigates medication related issues or missing doses as needed
• Accurately calculates doses to ensure an adequate supply in automated dispensing cabinet (ADC)
• Loads ADC in a timely and accurate manner according to max/min levels, adjusting for holidays and weekends
• Delivers medications to patient units in a timely manner to ensure precise administration times
• Replenishes unit floor stock medications
• Prepares discharge medications for patients by counting, labeling, and packaging the medication
• Conducts medication room inspections monthly and maintains up to date inspection logs
• Investigates and compiles information for Pyxis override reports
• Complete these tasks on a daily basis with an accuracy rate above 90%
• Completes tasks accurately and efficiently based on observation by the pharmacy director

Maintains Pharmacy Inventory and Supplies - Assists pharmacists with inventory of medications, supplies, and helps stock medications according to pharmaceutical protocols and procedures.

Behavioral Action Steps:
• Receives and stores incoming medications and supplies in correct locations
• Rotates stock regularly, keeping notes of when medications and supplies expire
• Monitors and replenishes stock in ADCs
• Credits and returned items are processed within 72 hours
• Accurately places returned medicines back to their appropriate locations
• Checks for expired or short dated medications in ADCs and in med rooms
• Appropriately labels bulk medication and supplies
• Maintains a compliance rate of 90% based on weekly reviews of remaining credits and supplies that are not inventoried
• Completes tasks daily

Provides Information and Responds To Requests - Provides routine information accurately and responds to requests responsibly.

Behavioral Action Steps:
• Provides professional, efficient, and courteous service to other healthcare providers as observed by pharmacy director
• Answers phone calls in the pharmacy in a timely manner
• Able to correctly direct calls to the appropriate personnel
• Receives and conveys information requests between pharmacy and other healthcare providers
• Research and provides information, locates items, refers to inquiries under pharmacist supervision
• Assists hospital staff, patients, and other visitors at the pharmacy walk-up door
• Completes entries in the pharmacy intervention log when appropriate
• Maintains a compliance rate of 100% based on review of any verbal or written disciplinary actions due to professionalism related issues, as well as observation by the pharmacy director.
• Completes tasks daily

Required / Desired Skills

• Ability to Work Independently (Required 4 Years)
  
• Accuracy (Required 4 Years)
  
• Active Listening (Required 4 Years)
  
• Analytical Skills (Required 4 Years)
  
• Collaboration (Required 4 Years)
  
• Colostomy Bag Care (Required 4 Years)
  
• Critical Thinking (Required 4 Years)
  
• Dispensed Medication Charting (Required 4 Years)
  
• Dispensensing Medications (Required 4 Years)
  
• Interdisciplinary communication (Required 4 Years)
  
• Medical Terminology (Required 4 Years)
  
• Medication Calculations (Required 1 Years)
  
• Medication history (Required 1 Years)