Job Id: PT 1925
Position: Pharmacy Technician
Client: TN MHSAS
Location: 221 Stewarts Ferry Pike Nashville TN 37214
Duration: 12 Months
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
Job Responsibility: Maintains Pharmacy Inventory and Supplies
- Assists pharmacist with inventory of medications supplies and helps stock medications according to pharmaceutical protocols and procedures.
Behavioural 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
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 the harmacy 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 and refers to inquiries under pharmacist supervision
- Assists hospital staff patients and other visitors at the pharmacy walkup door
- Completes entries in the pharmacy intervention log when appropriate
- Maintains a compliance rate of 100% based on a review of any verbal or written disciplinary actions due to professionalismrelated issues as well as observation by the pharmacy director.
- Completes tasks on a daily basis