TOUR (Rotating)
PUPROSE OF POSITION:
To Provide Pharmaceutical Services.
AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITIES:
Pharmacy
SUMMARY OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
I. FUNCTION:
Under the direct supervision of a licensed Pharmacist, performs work of a pharmacy technician, in accordance with Article 137 of the Education Law, specifically Article137-A, which details the tasks permitted for a licensed pharmacy technician and an unlicensed pharmacy technician. Ensures patient safety, optimal utilization of resources, service delivery and compliance with NYC Health + Hospitals, health care setting, and all other relevant regulatory policies and standards of care to improve outcomes and patient experience.
II. POSITION SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES:
1. Demonstrates skills essential to aiding the Pharmacist in performing essential duties.
2. Assist and work under the direct supervision of a Registered Pharmacist.
3. Shows the ability to fill a variety of different types of orders for inpatients and outpatients, safely utilizing equipment’s to accomplish this, including working in the IV area and Stock room.
4. Licensed Pharmacy Technician demonstrates skills essential for compounding.
5. Exhibits knowledge consistent with responsibilities of the stock room, i.e., receiving stock, storing, distributing to appropriate areas and maintaining records related to such transactions.
6. Interacts with Pharmacists and other staff to perform medication area inspections and report results.
III. MAJOR DUTIES:
1. Validates patient identity and screens prescriptions for completeness, formulary/restriction and payment status, prior to processing.
2. Receives written or electronically transmitted prescriptions, types prescription labels and affixes labels on containers.
3. Accurately keys and retrieves prescription data from a computer-generated file for review by a pharmacist.
4. Obtains drugs from stock and returns them to stock and fills appropriate forms as applicable/required by the department.
5. Restocks automated dispensing cabinets.
6. Gets prescription files and other manual records from storage and locates prescriptions.
7. Counts dosage units of drugs and places unit doses in appropriate patient bin for dispensing.
8. Receiving in OPD, including reconciliation of the stock with invoice.
9. Confirmation/reconciliation of the received stock in electronic inventory system.
10. Obtaining medications from stock room personnel and restock area bins, ensuring rotating stock with earliest expiration date in the front.
11. Works in the IV room to assist the Pharmacist, including docking.
12. Prepares manual records of dispensing for the signature or initials of the pharmacist as necessary.
13. Handles or delivers completed prescriptions to the patient or the person authorized to act on behalf of the patient and advises of the availability of counseling to be conducted by the licensed pharmacist or pharmacy intern.
14. Licensed Pharmacy Technician assists the Pharmacist, as directed, in compounding (“compounding” means the combining, admixing, mixing, diluting, pooling, reconstituting, or otherwise altering of a drug or bulk drug substance to create a drug), preparing, labeling or dispensing of compounding drugs used to fill valid prescriptions or medication orders or in compounding, preparing, and labeling in anticipation of a valid prescription or medication order for a patient.
15. Performs pharmacy-related clerical duties.
16. Delivers stat and other medications to the nursing unit including unit dose cart exchange.
17. Attends and/or participates in staff departmental and interdisciplinary meetings and training, as required.
18. Performs other related functions, as directed by the pharmacist/manager.
The above statement reflects the general duties considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job identified, and shall not be considered as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in the position. The Job Description is subject to change as needed.