Responsibilities and Duties:

• Directs and oversees daily operations of drug distribution
• Delegates and monitors work assignments.
• Develops and implements systems and controls to improve accuracy and efficiency within area of responsibility.
• Contributes to review, development, and maintenance of departmental administrative policies and procedures.
• Selects, trains, supervises and evaluates designated personnel.
• Administers, interprets, enforces and communicates hospital and departmental personnel policies and procedures.
• Provides decision support for department strategic planning and development of long and short-term goals and objectives.
• Collects and analyzes department statistics, identifies, interprets and communicates trends and develops recommendations to achieve specified goals and objectives.
• Advises Operations Manger on issues and prepares special reports and analyses as requested.
• Plans and develops goals and objectives for areas of responsibility.
• Fills and delivers medication orders/prescriptions.
• Dispenses standing inpatient medication orders.
• Schedules provision of special syringe, oral dosage and IV products as requested.
• Delivers cassettes and individual medications to units and collects new medication orders.
• Prepares patient medications in accordance with established protocols, methods and techniques.
• Measures, mixes and compounds automated TPNs, irrigations, chemotherapy drugs and parenteral and oral medications in specified volumes, dosages and concentrations.
• Prepares special dilutions of non-controlled and controlled substances, IV and research study medications as needed.
• Labels and records manufactured medications as required.
• Performs quality controls checks of medication orders and doses distributed following established procedures and schedules.
• Compares pharmacy and nursing records to ensure match of medication orders.
• Counts and reconciles actual dosages dispensed, delivered and remaining in medication bins against pharmacy and nursing records.
• Identifies, documents, researches and reports and/or resolves errors, discrepancies and unused doses, as required.
• Performs routine quality control and equipment maintenance.
• Responds to requests for routine factual information within scope of authority, refers inquiries requiring medical or administrative judgment to appropriate personnel.
• Serves as liaison to inpatient units regarding dispensing and distribution of patient medications.
• Reviews and discusses individual patients' therapies with nursing staff, identifying special patient needs and projecting quantities of medications required.
• Communicates with pharmacists and other technical staff to plan and provide services, which meet unit and patient needs. Receives and fills pharmaceutical supply requests for nursing units, satellite locations and other areas.
• Monitors, restocks and rotates supplies, including controlled substances, removing and replacing outdated products and processing related patient charges and credits.
• Restocks emergency codes cart trays and prepares and maintains corresponding logs and records.
• Participation in professional organizations and attendance at conferences, workshops and continuing education programs.

Requirements:

• Current registration as a Pharmacy Technician by the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy.
• Current certification by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board or National Healthcare Association.
• 5 years of Pharmacy Technician experience
• Completion of a Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy approved training program or a minimum of 500 hours worked as a pharmacy technician trainee.
• Requires being a minimum of 18 years of age
• High School Diploma or equivalent.

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