Pharmacy Technician - Full-time ( 36 hours per week ) - Marshfield, WI - Variable shifts ( day/pm/nights)
Location: Saint Joseph, Wisconsin
Description: Ministry Health Care is currently interviewing Pharmacy Technician - Full-time ( 36 hours per week ) - Marshfield, WI - Variable shifts ( day/pm/nights) right now, this career will be dwelled in Wisconsin. For detail informations about this career opportunity kindly read the description below. Ministry Saint Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield, WI has an opportunity for a pharmacy technician to work with a motivated pharmacy team. We are seeking candidates that are willing to work hard and are team oriented. The preferred candidate will have graduated from a pharmacy tech training program, however we are willing to train the right person for the job. In this rewarding role you will have a impact on patient care. Duties include: receiving and forwarding incoming Pharmacy workload, answers incoming communications, prepares medications for distribution, distributes medications using manual and automated systems, and helps assure product and service quality.
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Position Details:
36 hours per week
Shifts: Variable Shifts; Primarily Day/Pm Coverage for nights to cover team members vacation on occasion
Weekends: Every other
Holidays: Rotating
Other duties include:
- Answers incoming telephone calls and pager messages, assesses the purpose and needs of the caller, and then either fulfills those needs or appropriately forwards the call to another person.Prepares non-sterile medications for pharmacist check.
- Preparation activities include selection of the correct drug, dose, route form and amount, repackaging of medications, compounding non-sterile products, label preparation and attachment, but not the performance of sterile compounding processes.
- Distributes checked medications to patient care areas, including bedside delivery, automated dispensing cabinets, delivery via pneumatic tube or dumbwaiter, and all other delivery methods as appropriate to the pharmacy department at the local facility.
- Fills, removes, and outdates automated dispensing cabinets with medications, including controlled substances, and infusion fluids according to daily stocking reports, new orders, and stock-out alerts.
- Triages operational problems with automated dispensing cabinets.
- Issues approved stock items to areas with non-automated storage, as requested on established forms.
- Returns unused and unneeded medications and infusion fluids to pharmacy, evaluates returned medications for reusability, and places reusable items back into the storage and distribution system.
- Maintains medication stock levels for manual distribution areas, including monthly documented check for outdated products, storage cleanliness and neatness.
- Processes or prepares outpatient prescriptions.
- Inventory management (receive incoming shipments of pharmaceuticals, batch selection of medications from central inventory for patient care stock replenishment, fill stock orders for non-automated care areas and remote facilities), including management of controlled substance products and records
- Assists with orientation and training, especially Pharmacy Techncian duties, for newly hired personnel, students and observers.
- Participates in process improvement and quality initiatives within the department.
- Age-Specific Competence: The Pharmacy Technician is familiar with alternative non-sterile dosage forms, routes and packaging, such as oral liquids in oral syringes, to facilitate medication administration for neonatal, pediatric, geriatric and other patient types that may not be able to take tablets and capsules. Considers patient age and development when preparing medications and dosages for dispensing.
- Adheres to all Ministry Health Care confidentiality policies and procedures.
Education: High school graduation or equivalent is required
Experience: Required experience is either 1) a formal pharmacy technician training program of at least 9 months duration that includes at least 160 documented hours of on-the-job learning experience in a pharmacy (hospital and/or retail), or 2) at least 1 year of recent, successful employment at a job requiring repetitive accuracy, trust, efficiency and communication skills
Experience: Successful employment in a pharmacy is preferred, especially a hospital inpatient pharmacy with unit dose distribution
Certification: Current certification as a pharmacy technician (CPhT) is preferred but not required
Normal Weekly Hours
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36
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Full-time
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Shift
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Variable
Job
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Technicians
Primary Location
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WI-Marshfield-Saint Joseph's Hospital
Organization
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Saint Joseph's Hospital
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If you were eligible to this career, please email us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to Ministry Health Care.
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This career starts available on: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 14:38:47 GMT