Job Description

Job Title: Pharmacy Technician

Location: Nashville TN

Duration: 2 Months Contract

Rate: $25/hr. on 1099

Responsibilities:

1. Job Responsibility: 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 on a monthly basis and maintains up to date inspection logs

· Investigates and compiles information for Pyxis override reports

· Completes these tasks on a daily basis with an accuracy rate above 90%

· Completes tasks accurately and efficiently based on observation by the pharmacy director

2. Job Responsibility: Maintains Pharmacy Inventory and Supplies 

Assists pharmacist 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 in 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 on a daily basis

3. Job Responsibility: 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

· Researches 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 on a daily basis

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