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CHRISTUS Health
· Full TimePharmacy Technician job in San Marcos TX
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Pharmacy Technicians work under Clinical Pharmacists to provide compassionate, efficient pharmacy services. Responsibilities include assisting with medication histories, preparing drug orders, compounding pharmaceuticals, issuing controlled substances, maintaining records, and providing ambulatory pharmaceutical care. They also ensure safe, cost-effective drug therapies, detect adverse reactions, and participate in quality improvement activities. Maintaining licensure and competencies is essential, along with providing timely, accurate drug information and coordinating patient drug education. Potential occupational hazards include exposure to toxic substances and musculoskeletal injuries.
Pharmacy Technician
Location: San Marcos, Texas
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 offer 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.
- Prepare drug orders per physician request according to established policies, procedures, and protocols.
- Verify computerized patient medication records accurately.
- Compound pharmaceuticals including non-sterile and sterile products, chemotherapy, and parenteral nutrition products accurately.
- Issue controlled substances to patient care areas and maintain records as required by law and institutional policies.
- Provide services efficiently and in a timely fashion.
- Verify the daily activities of the department are complete and recorded.
- Maintain competency required for current job title/position.
- Maintain current technician license. Ensure applicable CE records and licensure are maintained in department files. Attend staff meetings.
- Maintain IV certification and competencies.
- Complete all competency/skills assessment requirements.
Specialty Area:
- Serve as the technician in specialty areas such as the operating room, IV room, or pharmacy work areas outside the central pharmacy.
Ambulatory Care:
- Provide 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:
- Perform outpatient distributive functions related to entering prescription orders, selecting the correct medications for new and refilled prescription orders, and coordinating delivery of medications for patient pick-up or delivery.
Clinical Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensure safe, appropriate, cost-effective drug therapies for patients according to established policies, procedures, and protocols.
- Read, extract, and interpret information in patient medical records accurately.
- Detect and report suspected adverse drug reactions accurately and in a timely manner.
- Sustain the hospital drug formulary, minimizing non-formulary procurements, utilizing therapeutic substitution protocols, and promoting rational drug therapy selection.
- Provide accurate, adequate, and timely drug information to the hospital's pharmacy associates.
- Coordinate pharmacist drug education to patients and their families per institutional protocol.
- Participate in the quality improvement and medication use review activities of the department. Collect data, conduct monitors and inspections, and maintain logs, records, and other documentation as assigned.
- Conduct 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.
- Provide services efficiently and in a timely fashion.
Occupational Hazards:
- Potential for exposure to hazardous and toxic
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