Area of Responsibilities

• Assist pharmacists with medication order filling.
• Makes contact with patients, families, and significant others to obtain and verify the list of medications taken at home by using available resources (calling pharmacies, calling physician offices, using internet sources, calling family or friends at home, etc.) in an accurate and timely manner.
• Responsible for accurate and timely preparation of sterile IV admixtures, hyper-alimentation solutions, and IV batch preparations. Follows all procedures related to IV room (cleaning, temperature monitoring, pressure monitoring, and proper downing of supplies for work done in clean room).
• Responsible for automated dispensing cabinet function; re-stocking, loading, inventory expiration checking, and trouble-shooting. Responsible for maintaining the integrity of medications stocked in patient care areas.
• Responsible for monitoring and investigating missing medications and medications returned that should have been administered. Reconciliation of medication charges and credits.
• Assists in monitoring all processes for performance improvement and error reduction.
• Assists pharmacists with employee, indigent, and hospice outpatient prescriptions.
• Assists the pharmacist in review and preparation of clinical monitoring reports.
• Attendance at Pharmacy Department staff meetings.
• Constant contact and interaction with nurses and other staff members arriving in pharmacy for retrieval of medication, information, services, etc.
• Responsible for maintaining cleanliness and organization of pharmacy stock.
• Responsible for screening and triaging incoming phone calls in a timely manner. Constant attention to detail is mandatory.
• Responsible for the accurate and timely documentation of home medication receipt and medication retrieval to patient upon discharge.
• Responsible for the accurate and timely repackaging of bulk medications into unit-dose packages.
• Restocks medication dispensing areas and fluid supplies from bulk storage.

Compliance Statement
Employee performs within the prescribed limits of Tanner Health System's Ethics and Compliance program. Is responsible to detect, observe, and report compliance variances to their immediate supervisor, the Compliance Officer, or the Hotline.

Education
High School Diploma or GED

Experience
Six months of related experience

Licenses & Certifications

• CERTIFIED PHARMACY TECHNICIAN
• GEORGIA REGISTERED PHARMACY TECH

Supervision

• Regularly uses the assistance of entry level technicians to monitor performance and ensure accurate completion of assigned tasks. Must work closely with peers and supervisors as an efficient team member to promote optimal patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Ability to interact and work well as part of a team oriented environment.
• Ability to pass a basic written competency examination. Must have a solid, working knowledge of medications: brand and generic names, dosage forms, common dosages, and common uses.
• Ability to work well in high volume, high stress situations.
• Adapts positively to changes in workload and/or work schedule.
• Desire to learn and excel through technician leveling program.
• Education and training through a Pharmacy Technician Program may be considered in place of 6 months work experience requirement.
• Must meet all the requirements as outlined in the Pharmacy Technician Clinical Ladder policy and procedure.

Definitions

• A first level position in the pharmacy department, this employee will assist pharmacists and the pharmacy department team with providing medication services and pharmaceutical care to patients and other departments throughout the health system.

Contact With Others
Appreciable contacts as regular part of the job with others outside of the department or organization. Requires discretion and tact to give or get specialized information to perform duties of job.

Effect Of Error
Probable error usually detected in succeeding operations and generally confined to a single department or phase of organization activities. Practically all work is subject to verification or check. Occasional work with some confidential data where the effect of any disclosure would be negligible or where the full import is not apparent in the routines performed.

Supervisory Responsibility
Regularly uses assistance of aide or helper or leads the work of one to four co-employees; checks performance of work assigned as to accuracy and time, doing same work, it's more difficult aspects, or other related work

Mental Demands
Semi-routine duties of some variety and difficulty performed under general supervision and following general operating procedures and practices. Work involves some planning to select correct methods and correct for error.

Physical Effort
Minor physical effort - Job requires person to stand and/or walk frequently. Lifts, carries, or uses lightweight (1 to 25 lbs.) materials or equipment less than half of the day. Works in reaching or strained position intermittently. Office or laboratory work requires close visual effort less than half of day. Office or Laboratory work with concentration on a monotonous, repetitious procedure or skill most of day, where speed and accuracy are essential.

Working Conditions
Minor - Occasionally involved in exposure to dirt, odors, noise, or some work is performed with exposure to temperature/weather extremes/occupational risk and probability of coming into contact with blood borne pathogens, other potentially infectious diseases, or biomedical/bio-hazardous materials.

Working Conditions Aspects For Immunizations

• Performs tasks involving contact with blood, blood-contaminated body fluids, other body fluids, or sharps (needles)

Physical Aspects

Continually (at least once per day)

• Hearing
• Visual
• Color Vision
• Speaking

Frequently (at least 3 times a week)

• Bending
• Typing
• Manual Dexterity - picking, pinching With fingers etc.
• Reaching - above shoulder
• Reaching - below shoulder
• Standing
• Walking
• Running - In response To an emergency
• Lifting up To 25 lbs.
• Carrying
• Squatting
• Pushing/Pulling - up To 25 lbs.
• Pushing/Pulling - 25 To 60 lbs.
• Pushing/Pulling - over 60 lbs.

Occasionally (at least once a month)

• Balancing
• Crawling
• Lifting 25 To 60 lbs.
• Handling - seizing, holding, grasping
• Climbing
• Kneeling
• Driving - Utility vehicles such As golf carts, Gators, ATV, riding lawnmowers, skid steer, aerial lift
• Driving - Class C vehicles