Pharmacy Tech - Per-diem Evenings

Company: Saint Peter's Healthcare System
Location: New Brunswick
Posted on: May 16, 2022

Job Description:

Job DescriptionSaint Peter's is seeking a Pharmacy Tech to join their team.As the Pharmacy Tech you will:

• Assist the Pharmacists in preparation of medication pursuant to a written prescription order or approved requisition.
• Prepare individual patient medication cassettes under the Pharmacist's supervision and exchanges same, as directed, on a daily basis.
• Participate in the control of medication by monitoring inventories, retrieving discontinued medications, etc.
• Make regularly scheduled rounds to assigned Nursing Units/treatment areas, delivers completed medications and picks up requisitions/medication orders to be processed.
• Operates the Robot-Rx in an efficient, error-free, and safe manner in order to pick medications as part of the dispensing process.
• Assists Pharmacist in the preparation of sterile products.
• Repackages of bulk medications into unit dose containers utilizing (ex, tablets in vials and liquids in bottles) or other appropriate pharmacy repackaging equipment
• Performs the clerical portion of the controlled substance replenishment system for the pharmacist's review and approval. Delivers controlled substances to assigned Nursing units/treatment areas under the Pharmacist's direction.
• Maintains, updates, and replaces the Hospital's supply of medication in emergency carts. Requirements:
  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • Must be registered or eligible for registration as a pharmacy technician in New Jersey
  • Ability to read, write and speak English well enough to follow detailed instructions as well as to communicate with Pharmacists, Nurses, and other Hospital Personnel, as required.
  • Competence in basic pharmaceutical nomenclature (generic vs. proprietary names), related mathematical skills and general pharmaceutical principles. This level of proficiency is usually acquired through previous Pharmacy, laboratory or other related experience or completion of a formalized training program.
  • The ability to recognize the professional nature of the Department of Pharmaceutical Services and to integrate appropriate standards to the performance of all tasks.Grade 112
    
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