Pharmacy Tech

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.

• AIDET (Standard Patient Satisfaction Criteria).
• Utilizes the AIDET principle to communicate with others with a focus on patients and their families. Acknowledge Introduce Explain Duration Thank
• Reads and interprets copies of physicians orders and enters them into a computerized profile system.
• Fills patient medication cassettes and new medication orders with excellent accuracy.
• Prepares injectable medications such as large volume IVS syringes IVPBs hyperalimentation solutions and chemotherapy doses.
• Uses pharmacy computer systems to produce a variety of reports fill lists labels and other related jobs
• Delivers medications to the patient care areas.

• Completion of a recognized technician training program or two years working experience as a health systems pharmacy technician
• Pharmacy Technician: CA

Preferred

• College course work concentrated in science
• Previous certification in chemotherapy and hyperalimentation preparation
  
• Knowledge of Windows based computer systems

Founded in 1941 Dignity Health - Dominican Hospital is a 188-bed acute care nonprofit hospital located in Santa Cruz California. Serving over 80000 patients annually the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care orthopedics and a Family Birthing Center. Additionally Dominican Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center and has been awarded the AMA/ASAs Get the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement recognizing the hospitals commitment to providing the best stroke care.

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