Certified Pharmacy Technician II - Pharm General
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San Antonio, Texas - TX CHRISTUS Health
| Job Ref: | 18261402 |
| Employer: | CHRISTUS Health |
| Banner: | CHRISTUS Health |
| Position type: | Full-Time |
| Job Category: | Health-Systems (Hospital / LTC / Home Infusion) |
| Sub Category: | Technician |
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Description Summary: All pharmacy technicians work under the direction of Clinical Pharmacists to provide pharmacy services with compassion, excellence and efficiency. The CHRISTUS Children's Hospital, established in 1959, was the first children's hospital in South-Central Texas. Located downtown, this 190-plus-bed hospital serves more than 70,000 children annually from San Antonio, South Texas and around the world. The hospital (in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine) is the only academic children's hospital in San Antonio. Our highly specialized services meet the unique medical needs of children, from Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care to Children's Emergency Services, the latest treatments for deformities of the spine including titanium rib implants and halo traction, a Heart Center, a specialized asthma program, a highly regarded Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, and growing maternal services to include consultation, delivery, and maternal fetal medicine. Responsibilities: • Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders. • Must be 18 years or older. • Pharmacy Technicians perform ONLY non-judgmental technical duties under the direct supervision of a pharmacist. Operational Duties and Responsibilities • Assist Pharmacists with Medication Histories. • Train Tech I associates. • Prepares drug orders per physician request according to established policies, procedures and protocols. • Verifies computerized patient medication records accurately. Maintains, accurate, complete patient drug record. • Compounds pharmaceuticals including non-sterile and sterile products, chemotherapy and parenteral nutrition products accurately. • Issues controlled substances to patient care areas and maintains records as required by law and institutional policies. • Provides services efficiently and in a timely fashion. • Verifies the daily activities of the department are complete and recorded. • Maintains competency required for current job title/position • Maintains current technician license. Ensures applicable CE records and licensure are maintained in department files. Attends staff meetings. • Maintain IV certification and competencies. • Completes all competency/skills assessment requirements. • Specialty area • Serves as the technician in specialty areas such as the operating room, IV room, or pharmacy work areas outside the central pharmacy. • Ambulatory care • Provides ambulatory pharmaceutical care services as assigned such as but not limited to: anticoagulation clinics, intensive medical home, transition of care, Discharge Medication reconciliation, etc. • Retail • Performs outpatient distributive functions related to entering prescriptions orders, selecting the correct medications for new and refilled prescription orders, and coordinates delivery of medications for patient pick-up or delivery. Clinical Duties and Responsibilities • Ensures safe, appropriate, cost-effective drug therapies for patients according to established policies, procedures, and protocols. • Reads, extracts and interprets information in patient medical records accurately. • Detects and reports suspected adverse drug reactions accurately and in a timely manner. • Sustains the hospital drug formulary, minimizing non-formulary procurements, utilizing therapeutic substitution protocols and promoting rational drug therapy selection. • Provides accurate, adequate and timely drug information to the hospital's pharmacy associates. • Coordinates pharmacist drug education to patients and their families per institutional protocol. • Participates in the quality improvement and medication use review activities of the department. Collects data, conducts monitors and inspections and maintains logs, records and other documentation as assigned. • Conducts designated interventions as defined in department Clinical Intervention activities (IV to PO, Renal Dosing, Pharmacokinetic dosing support, Anticoagulation) • Baseline departmental standards for reporting interventions for clinical productivity as defined by departmental goals. • Provides services efficiently and in a timely fashion Occupational Hazards • Potential for exposure to hazardous and toxic substances (including chemotherapeutic, cytotoxic drugs and cleaning solutions), sticks or cuts by needles and other sharp items. • Risk 0 exposure category. • Potential for musculoskeletal injuries if proper lifting and carrying techniques are not used. Potential exposure to biologic material when participating in direct patient care activities (e.g. patient education, code attendance). Requirements:
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| State: | Texas - TX |
| City: | San Antonio |
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