Pharmacy Technician

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.

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