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Pharmacy Tech III

St Elizabeth Community Hospital

#Patient Care #Safety Protocols #Infection Control #Pharmacy Technician #Acute Care Hospital #Trauma Center #Medication Dispensing #Unit Dose #Sterile Compounding

Quick overview

The Pharmacy Tech will ensure safe and effective medication delivery to patients by being extremely thorough and accurate, prioritizing patient safety in all prescription preparation and dispensing under pharmacist guidance. Responsibilities include efficient medication delivery, filling and billing patient cassettes, completing outpatient pharmacy functions, stocking, and conducting IV preparation using sterile technique.

Requirements summary

Candidates must have completed a Pharmacy Technician program, possess a California Pharmacy Technician license, and hold a Certified Pharmacy Tech (PTCB) certification upon hire. Preferred qualifications include two years of experience in Hospital Pharmacy and Sterile Compounding.

professional certificateAccuracyPatient SafetySafety ProtocolsStockingInfection PreventionSterile TechniqueMedication PreparationTimelinessUnit Dose FillingCredit ProcessingCharge ProcessingIV PreparationOutpatient Pharmacy Functions

Job description

Where You’ll Work Founded in 1906, Dignity Health - St.
Elizabeth Community Hospital is a 76-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Red Bluff, California.
Serving over 90,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level III Trauma Center, heart care, cancer care, and a family birth center.
Additionally, St.
Elizabeth Community Hospital, has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center.
It has been named a Top Rural Hospital by The Leapfrog Group for two consecutive years, one of only 16 rural hospitals in the US to achieve this award.
One Community.
One Mission.
One California Job Summary and Responsibilities As our Pharmacy Tech, you'll help our patients feel better by providing safe and effective medications to them.
You'll help our doctors and nurses feel better knowing that you are providing accurate and timely medication to patients.Every day, you'll build trust by being extremely thorough and accurate at all times.
Patient safety is your top priority, so you do everything you can to ensure all prescriptions are authentic, prepared correctly both in medication type and dosing, and are dispensed appropriately, under the Pharmacist's guidance.
To be successful in this role, you follow all safety protocols, including those intended to prevent infection, and you keep a clean work area at all times.
You are eager to learn or help out in any way needed to keep the pharmacy running smoothly and get our patients their medications.
Delivers medications to designated areas accurately and efficiently, including consolidating trips and recognizing priorities Fills and bills patient cassettes accurately and efficiently, processes patient charges and credits accurately and rapidly into the computer and delivers and exchanges cassettes efficiently Fills stock, Unit dose medications, medication orders accurately, efficiently and in a timely manner taking into account specific patient needs Completes outpatient pharmacy functions according to departmental processes which includes but is not limited to: calling in prescription refills to the physician offices and processing take home prescriptions Stocks take home area, shelves and medication bins and all areas of the pharmacy Conducts IV preparation functions according to departmental processes using sterile technique Job Requirements

Pharmacy Tech III

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