What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pharmacy Technician position at Tohono O'odham Nation Healthcare?
PLEASE NOTE - This position may require temporarily relocation to other TONHC Facilities : Sells Hospital, Santa Rosa Health Center, San Simon Health Center, and San Xavier Health Center.
Position Summary :
The incumbent performs various pharmacy-related duties for the Pharmacy Department, such as maintaining medication supplies, ordering drugs from the supply department, and stocking medications.
Scope of Work :
This position is located in the Tohono O'odham Nation Sells Hospital or Health Care Centers within the service area. Incumbent provides pharmacy services as directed or assigned by a Clinical Pharmacist. The incumbent is under the immediate supervision of the Clinical Pharmacist.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities : (Depending on the area of assignment, an incumbent may not be required to perform some of the duties listed below) :
- Order drugs from the supply department, except class II narcotics.
- Responsible for keeping the supply of medications needed on hand.
- Keeps narcotic files on nursing units and emergency room up to date
- Prepare off-schedule drug requisitions as necessary and checks the status of backorder drugs.
- Perform some clerical duties in the absence of clerical staff.
- Responsible for collecting such data as may be required and writing such reports as may be assigned.
- Shelves and stores all incoming drugs and supplies, assuring that all items requiring special handling receive the same and maintain proper stock rotation.
- Provides warehousing activities maximize efficiency, so storage space is used with maximum efficiency per the pharmacy storage plan.
- Stocks and maintains the emergency drug carts by utilizing a prepared checklist.
- Maintain an adequate working shelf stock of drugs in the pharmacy's dispensing area.
- Inventories and maintains the night drug cabinet stock in the emergency room.
- Responsible for maintaining the pharmacies and storage areas in a neat, clean, and orderly condition.
- Independently fills inpatient and outpatient drug requisitions from prepackaged stock containers and original stock containers.
- Check all nursing drug storage areas for expired drugs.
- Prepackage drugs from bulk containers to smaller outpatient dispensing units for use in filling prescriptions.
- Strip packaged medications used in the operation of the inpatient unit dose drug distribution system.
- Responsible for printing all labels used in the prepackaging process.
- Counts and pours drugs used in the filling of a prescription.
- Routinely calls patients to the outpatient pharmacy consultation rooms.
- Prepare sterile intravenous admixtures and chemotherapeutic agents; light checks all intravenous solutions arid admixtures issued through the pharmacy.
- Bulks compound pharmaceutical preparations as such as ointment, solutions, etc.
- Operate inpatient and outpatient pharmacies' computers, the hospital computer system, and PC's.
- Contribute to a team effort.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :
Minimum Qualifications :
Licenses, Certifications, Special Requirements :
Salary : $22 - $27
