Pharmacy Technician (Day/Night)
UPMC
- Altoona, PA
- Permanent
- Full-time
Responsible for properly storing and distributing drugs; receives and accounts for drugs from all vendors. Delivers medications to patient care and other areas; picks up drug returns and applicable paperwork; and returns all returned unit-dose products to proper receipts. Responsible for filling patient drug boxes, floor stock orders, and automated dispensing cabinets. Assists Pharmacists as directed. Maintains daily reports.Responsibilities:
- Accurately fills floor stock requests.
- Basic understanding of the concept of physical stability and chemical stability as it relates to parenteral pharmaceuticals.
- Correctly interpret physician orders and can distinguish between pharmaceutical orders, laboratory tests, radiology, nursing, and other orders.
- Repackages drugs into a unit-of-use container.
- Perform monthly medication storage area inspections.
- Prepare correct labeling for bulk drugs.
- Understands microbial contamination and exhibits Aseptic Technique while preparing sterile pharmaceutical products.
- Selects drugs from stock in the proper dose, dosage form, and quantity as ordered by a physician under the direct supervision of a pharmacist.
- Perform basic pharmaceutical calculations.
- Education and Formal Training Required: High School Diploma or GED.
- Certified Pharmacist Technician Certification Preferred or Certification required within one year of hire.
- Experience Required: Prefer previous pharmacy experience
- Must be familiar with a typewriter keyboard and demonstrate the ability to produce a neat, accurate, and legible copy.
- Individuals must have the ability to adapt to the computerized Pharmacy Information Systems utilized.
- Individuals must demonstrate initiative and good judgment.
- Act 34