Pharmacy Technician (Day/Night)
Altoona, Pennsylvania
Pharmacy Technician
Full-time, Day/Night shift, (3) 12-hour shifts per week, 7:00 AM - 7:30 PM or 7:00 PM - 7:30 AM, including possible rotation, weekends and holidays.
AFSCME - Union
Posted: May 16, 2024
Purpose:
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:
Qualifications:
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
Full-time, Day/Night shift, (3) 12-hour shifts per week, 7:00 AM - 7:30 PM or 7:00 PM - 7:30 AM, including possible rotation, weekends and holidays.
AFSCME - Union
Posted: May 16, 2024
Purpose:
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.
Qualifications:
- 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.
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances: - Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT)
- Act 34
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
Created: 2024-06-22
Reference: 6116949841
Country: United States
State: Pennsylvania
City: Altoona
About UPMC Senior Communities
Founded in: 1893
Number of Employees: 110000
Website: https://www.upmc.com/
Career site: https://careers.upmc.com/
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