Pharmacy Tech I

Overview

St. Luke's Health-Memorial paves the way for quality innovative health care in East Texas and provides more than a quarter of a million patient services each year. With hospitals in Lufkin Livingston and San Augustine St. Luke's Health-Memorial provides millions of dollars in charity care and community support each year.

Responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY / PURPOSE
Assists the pharmacist with tasks involved in providing high quality pharmacy services to our patients, including the
preparation of IV admixtures, filling medication requests, and maintaining pharmacy inventory.
ESSENTIAL KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Assist the Pharmacist in filling medication orders, prescriptions and pharmacy stock
2. Perform distributive Functions to patient care areas and pharmacy areas, to include pickup and delivery orders
and/or medications
3. Inventory and maintain appropriate pharmaceutical stock levels in storage, automated dispensing devices, and
patient care areas to assure adequate medication supplies are available to meet patient care needs
4. Perform and document quality assurance/control tasks in a complete and timely manner to assure the highest
quality of pharmaceutical services
5. Maintain pharmacy work areas in a neat, clean and orderly fashion, and ensure that all drugs and supplies returned
from patient care areas are appropriately returned to stock or wasted as required in a timely manner
6.Assist the pharmacist in filling medication orders, prescriptions, and pharmacy stock
7.Accurately prepare medications for the pharmacist to check, including appropriate auxiliary labels, in a timely manner
8.Assure that a pharmacist's final check, when appropriate, and signature documentation of all products has occurred
prior to their delivery
9.Attend promptly to the directives of the pharmacist and supervisory personnel
10. Accurately prepare sterile products in a timely manner, adhering to required aseptic technique at all times
11. Accurately select the appropriate drug product(s) required for the preparation of sterile products and assure that all
necessary components are available for final check by the pharmacist

12. May be Responsible for purchasing activities
13. Assist pharmacists in code situations

Qualifications

• Required Education and Experience

*Completion of a pharmacy tech program
*Registered Pharmacy Technician (CPHT) with the Texas State
Board of Pharmacy or pharmacy school student intern card
*Aseptic Technique - Complete an ACPE approved 40 hour
sterile products course as required by location

• Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
  and Training

*Effective verbal and written communication skills