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Job Title: Pharmacy Technician
Duration: 13 weeks
Location: Newark DE 19718
Shift: M-F 6am - 2:30pm
Responsibilities:
Duration: 13 weeks
Location: Newark DE 19718
Shift: M-F 6am - 2:30pm
Responsibilities:
- Assist the pharmacist in providing timely, efficient, cost effective, and appropriate pharmaceutical care to the patient
- Refill patient medication bins through robot cart fill and manual picks; update carts by including new orders, removing discontinued medications, and transferring medications. Update labeling of patient medication bins on admission, transfer, and discharge of patients
- Deliver and exchange 24-hour cart fill to nursing units at scheduled times.
- Check medication storage areas for discontinued and discharged patient medications; ensure that returned medications are placed back into stock
- Reorder medications in short supply and restock the picking station and other areas of the pharmacy
- Maintain a clean and orderly work area, check periodically for overstocked and outdated medications
- Answer telephone and greet personnel coming to pharmacy in a courteous and friendly manner. Refer problem and drug information inquiries to the pharmacist
- Make rounds of nursing units for medication drop-off and pick up discontinued medications.
- Send prepared medications to nursing units via pneumatic tube system on a timely basis for STATs and missing doses if the medication can be tubed. Any medication that cannot be tubed is to be delivered to the appropriate location on the nursing unit
- Manage automated dispensing cabinet inventory, including accurate selection and loading of medications
- Ensure that medications are stored properly and that only in date medications are stored. Remove discontinued medication
- Minimum High School Diploma required
- Hospital pharmacy experience preferred
- Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) certification required unless enrolled in a PharmD program
- DE Pharmacy Technician License (DE techs only)
- Computer experience preferred (e.g., window-based programs)
- Basic typing skills
