Certified Pharmacy Technician II - Pharm General - PRN
Company: Christus Health
Location: San Marcos
Posted on: March 29, 2025
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Job Description:
Description
Summary: All pharmacy technicians work under the direction of
Clinical Pharmacists to provide pharmacy services with compassion,
excellence and efficiency. CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital - San
Marcos, which originated in 1923 as Hays County Soldiers, Sailors
and Marines Memorial Hospital, opened at its current Wonder World
Drive location in 1983. Our staff of more than 700 Associates works
with more than 300 active and consulting physicians to provide
quality services to patients and their families. For more than 20
consecutive years, we have been named The Best Hospital in Hays
County in the annual "Best of Hays" publication released by the San
Marcos Daily Record. In addition to interventional cardiac
services, CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital - San Marcos is a Certified
Chest Pain Center and an accredited Primary Stroke Center. We lead
the region in da Vinci robotic-assisted surgery and offers a
variety of specialty care services including medical imaging,
rehabilitation, hospice, women's services and more.
Responsibilities: --- Meets expectations of the applicable
OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or
Leader of Leaders. --- Must be 18 years or older. --- Pharmacy
Technicians perform ONLY non-judgmental technical duties under the
direct supervision of a pharmacist. Operational Duties and
Responsibilities--- Assist Pharmacists with Medication Histories.
--- Train Tech I associates. --- Prepares drug orders per physician
request according to established policies, procedures and
protocols. --- Verifies computerized patient medication records
accurately. Maintains, accurate, complete patient drug record. ---
Compounds pharmaceuticals including non-sterile and sterile
products, chemotherapy and parenteral nutrition products
accurately. --- Issues controlled substances to patient care areas
and maintains records as required by law and institutional
policies. --- Provides services efficiently and in a timely
fashion. --- Verifies the daily activities of the department are
complete and recorded. --- Maintains competency required for
current job title/position--- Maintains current technician license.
Ensures applicable CE records and licensure are maintained in
department files. Attends staff meetings. --- Maintain IV
certification and competencies. --- Completes all competency/skills
assessment requirements. --- Specialty area --- Serves as the
technician in specialty areas such as the operating room, IV room,
or pharmacy work areas outside the central pharmacy. --- Ambulatory
care--- Provides ambulatory pharmaceutical care services as
assigned such as but not limited to: anticoagulation clinics,
intensive medical home, transition of care, Discharge Medication
reconciliation, etc. --- Retail--- Performs outpatient distributive
functions related to entering prescriptions orders, selecting the
correct medications for new and refilled prescription orders, and
coordinates delivery of medications for patient pick-up or
delivery. Clinical Duties and Responsibilities--- Ensures safe,
appropriate, cost-effective drug therapies for patients according
to established policies, procedures, and protocols. --- Reads,
extracts and interprets information in patient medical records
accurately. --- Detects and reports suspected adverse drug
reactions accurately and in a timely manner. --- Sustains the
hospital drug formulary, minimizing non-formulary procurements,
utilizing therapeutic substitution protocols and promoting rational
drug therapy selection. --- Provides accurate, adequate and timely
drug information to the hospital's pharmacy associates. ---
Coordinates pharmacist drug education to patients and their
families per institutional protocol. --- Participates in the
quality improvement and medication use review activities of the
department. Collects data, conducts monitors and inspections and
maintains logs, records and other documentation as assigned. ---
Conducts designated interventions as defined in department Clinical
Intervention activities (IV to PO, Renal Dosing, Pharmacokinetic
dosing support, Anticoagulation)--- Baseline departmental standards
for reporting interventions for clinical productivity as defined by
departmental goals. --- Provides services efficiently and in a
timely fashionOccupational Hazards--- Potential for exposure to
hazardous and toxic substances (including chemotherapeutic,
cytotoxic drugs and cleaning solutions), sticks or cuts by needles
and other sharp items. --- Risk 0 exposure category. --- Potential
for musculoskeletal injuries if proper lifting and carrying
techniques are not used. Potential exposure to biologic material
when participating in direct patient care activities (e. g. patient
education, code attendance). Requirements:
Keywords: Christus Health, San Marcos , Certified Pharmacy Technician II - Pharm General - PRN, Healthcare , San Marcos, Texas
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