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Pharmacy Tech II (PRN): Clear Lake Regional Medical Center

To assist the Department of Pharmacy in carrying out its mission of providing quality patient care to all patients cared for by Clear Lake Regional Medical Center.


POSITION RESPONSIBILITY

The Pharmacy Technician II works under the direction of the pharmacy tech supervisor or a licensed pharmacist and is responsible for the following duties;

1. Assists in maintaining the cleanliness and orderliness of the pharmacy.
2. Attains competency in the operation and maintenance of pharmacy automation equipment, i.e. Accudose, Robot-Rx, and Meditech.
3. Maintains records associated with departmental functions assigned to the technician, i.e. times of making pharmacy rounds, times of sending medications via the pneumatic tube system, refrigerator temperatures, crash cart fills, documentation of compounding and pre-packing pharmaceutical products, etc.
4. Answers the telephone and provides assistance to the caller to satisfy their inquiries.
5. Issues floor stock medications or supplies to other departments after being checked by a pharmacist.
6. Enters pharmacy charges into the pharmacy computer system on a daily basis
7. Assists the pharmacist in the dispensing of medications, i.e. order entry of physician orders and filling those physician orders to include the reconstituting of medications if required.
8. Prepares parenteral medications under the direct supervision of a pharmacist to include large and small volume parenterals, chemotherapy, and hyperalimentaion solutions .
9. Delivers medications to the nursing units on both scheduled basis as well as an emergency basis when deemed appropriate.

Required Job Qualifications include:

High School graduate or equivalent

National certification as a Pharmacy Tech (CPhT)


State certification as a Pharmacy Tech


Current/recent hospital experience only.

IV certified.
Critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision in a fast paced environment.
Ability to perform work that requires frequent standing, bending, reaching, squatting, kneeling, moving, lifting of patients and/or equipment up to 50 lbs.