Pharmacy Technician IV Admixture Float
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Job Location:
Kettering, OH - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
12 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Pharmacy IV Admixture Technician
Description:
Dayton Physicians Network is looking to add a Pharmacy IV Admixture Technician to our organization!
Schedule:
Monday Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm 4 days a week/8 hour shifts
No weekends evenings or holidays!
Work/life balance schedules
Covering other Hematology Oncology locations as needed.
Why work for Dayton Physicians Network
- Full-time employees are eligible for health dental and vision benefits
- Company holidays and a flexible holiday!
- Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) Package
- Additional accrual increase after 1 year of service with Dayton Physicians!
- 401K
- Scrub Allotments
- Yearly Bonus Program
- Dayton Physicians Network as an Independent Practice <--- Watch video here!
Summary:
The IV Admixture Technician prepares parenteral chemotherapy admixtures manages inventory and maintains detailed documentation in compliance with established procedures as well as federal and state regulations.
DPN Core Value Expectations:
The CARES model reflects the principles that guide our day-to-day behaviors; our decisions our actions and our relationships with each other and with the patients and families we serve. All DPN employees are expected to embrace and demonstrate the following:
- COMPASSION: the patient is at the center of all we do
- ACCOUNTABILITY: we hold ourselves accountable for our actions
- RESPECT: we show respect for others
- EXCELLENCE with Innovation: we strive for excellence in all we do
- SERVICE through Collaboration: we provide service to our patients team members and community.
Additionally as DPN is a service-oriented organization All DPN employees are expected to embrace and demonstrate the following when interacting with patients employees and other customers:
- Smile make eye contact and greet with energy!
- Restate what you are hearing. Listen patiently and compassionately to complaints. Our patients and families are likely going through a difficult time. Irritability on their part is not about you.
- Give full attention. Turn away from the computer screen and face the person you are conversing with.
- Explain any potential delays in service and provide frequent updates.
- Empathize (feel empathy for someone)
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assists in the preparation of medications and supplies for distribution including: chemotherapeutic agents non-chemotherapy IV mixtures and large volume intravenous mixtures;
- Properly dispose of materials used when mixing chemo and non-chemo IVs;
- Maintains pharmacy inventory by checking pharmaceutical stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed medications and supplies; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; removing outdated drugs.;
- Check for outdated items;
- Maintain clean admixture environment per state and federal regulations and DPN policies and procedures;
- Follow all health care privacy and safety rules and adheres to Dayton Physicians Core Values;
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Education and/ or Experience:
This position requires a high school diploma or G.E.D. and a minimum of two years experience in compounding IV admixtures including IV chemotherapy and other hazardous addition this position requires knowledge of basic pharmacy practices and procedures knowledge of medications and medical supplies strong mathematical computation skills and great attention to detail.
Physical/ Mental Demands:
While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to use hands to assist patients reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand walk and sit. The position requires regular lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds and occasionally lifting and/or moving up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision color vision peripheral vision depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Environmental/ Working Conditions:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Patient care and non-patient care environments requiring frequent contact with office staff and physicians. Work may be stressful at times. The employee is exposed to fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals and personal protection is required.
Hazardous Drug Warning:
Healthcare workers who prepare or administer hazardous drugs or who work in areas where these drugs are used may be exposed to these agents in air or on work surfaces contaminated clothing medical equipment patient excreta or other sources. Studies have associated workplace exposures to hazardous drugs with health effects such as skin rashes and adverse reproductive events (including infertility spontaneous abortions or congenital malformations) and possibly leukemia and other cancers. The health risk is influenced by the extent of the exposure and the potency and toxicity of the hazardous drug. Potential health effects can be minimized though sound procedures for handling hazardous drugs engineering controls and proper use of protective equipment to protect workers to the greatest degree possible.
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
Dayton Physicians Network based in Dayton, OH is a health care company providing comprehensive cancer care and urologic care services at multiple locations.
