What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pharmacy Tech Delnor Full-time position at Northwestern Memorial Healthcare?
The Pharmacy Tech reflects the mission vision and values of NM adheres to the organizations Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program and complies with all relevant policies procedures guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.
Responsibilities :
- Requires critical thinking skills decisive judgment and ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
- Identifies and fills medications surgical kits medication carts emergency crash carts requisitions and specialty items.
- Prepares Sterile compounds and IV admixtures for injection and infusion including hazardous medications chemotherapy and biologics
- Fills and labels individual patient medications according to a computer generated medication profile.
- Packages medications into a unitofuse form labeling all medications and supplies with the required information; maintains a log of each preparation.
- Delivers medications to nursing units to automated dispensing cabinets and retrieves discontinued medications
- Maintains appropriate inventory of automated dispensing cabinets; rotates all floor stock and inventory to reduce outdated medications.
- Assists in ordering receiving unpacking and storing pharmaceuticals and supplies in appropriate locations.
- Replaces returned medications to appropriate locations rotating the inventory and checking for expired medications.
- Controls and checks medications outside of the department by performing unit inspections and emergency cart checks.
- Appropriately handles controlled substances including maintaining security reconciling controlled substance dispenses and accounting for transactions of expired waste and return.
- Enters patient charges and credit information into the computer.
- Maintains logs records and other required documentation.
Qualifications : Required :
Preferred :
Additional Information :
Northwestern Medicine is an affirmative action / equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of age sex race color religion national origin gender identity veteran status disability sexual orientation or any other protected status.
Remote Work : Employment Type :
Fulltime
