Pharmacy Technician I
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Job Location:
Lexington, KY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
10 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Where Youll Work
Welcome to Saint Joseph Hospital a 433-bed hospital founded in 1877 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth as the first hospital in Lexington Kentucky. Led by Sister Euphrasia Stafford the mission to provide compassionate care to the underserved is still carried out today. Saint Joseph Hospital holds over two dozen national ranks and recognitions and is recognized as a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky.
Saint Joseph is part of CommonSpirit Health a non-profit Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175000 team members and 25000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.
Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians advanced practice clinicians nurses and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2200 care centers serving 24 states.
Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Pharmacy Tech youll help our patients feel better by providing safe and effective medications to them. Youll help our doctors and nurses feel better knowing that you are providing accurate and timely medication to patients.
Every day youll 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 Pharmacists 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.
- Assists pharmacist in providing pharmaceutical care to include (but not limited to):
- Preparing filling and distributing medication
- Screening phone calls/orders and alerting the pharmacist to patient-specific data
- Prepares labels with medication name strength lot number and expiration date.
- Performs monthly patient care area inspections and reports as assigned by the manager.
- Completes charges/credits daily for billing.
- Maintains the various work areas of the department and equipment/utensils in a neat clean and orderly appearance.
- Restocks special care stock supplies (i.e. emergency drugs to crash carts and heart carts) under pharmacist supervision.
Job Requirements
- High school/GED upon hire and
- Pharmacy Technician: KY upon hire or
- Pharmacist Intern: KY upon hire
Preferred
- Previous Pharmacy Technician experience
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Load & Unload
- LTC Pharmacy
- Typing
- Inventory Control
- Customer Service
- Hospital Experience
- Pharmacy Software
- Communication skills
- Math
- Pharmacy Technician Experience
- Order Entry
- Compounding Medications
About Company
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