Inpatient Pharmacy Technician II - IV Admixtures

Baptist-Health-Care,-Inc.; Pensacola (FL); On-site; USD 38,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health Care seeks a Pharmacy Technician II - Inpatient to support hospital-wide unit dose drug distribution and the intravenous admixture program. Under pharmacist supervision, you will prepare sterile products, manage inventory, and assist with compliance and safety processes at the Pensacola campus.

Responsibilities include stocking ADCs, labeling, assisting with narcotics, and collaboration with pharmacists and nursing staff to ensure safe, timely medication distribution.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or Equivalent required.

Responsibilities

• Attends departmental staff meetings, daily huddles, daily hand-offs and all other departmental communications to remain informed of departmental and organizational updates to process, policy, procedure, and other updates.
• Fills, delivers, replenishes, and accurately maintains medications and supplies for automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs), patient-specific medication orders, nursing units, perioperative areas, and ancillary departments in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Prepares sterile compounded products, intravenous admixtures, and syringes using approved aseptic techniques and established quality and safety standards; inspects finished products for accuracy, quality, clarity, and proper labeling prior to pharmacist verification.
• Assembles materials, generate labels and worklists, and prepares medications for pharmacist verification and distribution.; pre-packages, labels, and prepares unit-dose medications, bulk manufactured products, and other pharmaceutical products as permitted and directed by pharmacists and departmental procedures.
• Maintains pharmacy and clean room inventory through stock replenishment, expiration-date monitoring, stock rotation, recycling, supply ordering, and adherence to sterile compounding and infection prevention standards.
• Prepares, distributes, transports, documents, and maintains accountability for controlled substances in compliance with hospital policies, regulatory requirements, and departmental procedures.
• Receives, unpacks, transports, stores, stocks, distributes, and disposes of hazardous medications, including chemotherapy agents, in accordance with organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and safety standards.
• Performs authorized technician-check-technician verification activities for automated dispensing cabinet (ADC) restocking and inventory management.
• Conducts monthly nursing unit and department inspections; monitors medication storage conditions, expiration dates, and product integrity; inspects medications for barcode scanning functionality and compliance with unit-dose packaging requirements, including one-tablet-per-package standards; reports unusual occurrences and support compliance with medication safety standards, regulatory requirements, and departmental policies.
• Processes medication charges and credits, maintain workload statistics and required records, generate reports and labels, and complete documentation accurately and timely.
• Maintains pharmacy and work areas in a clean, organized, and compliant condition through routine cleaning, disinfection, and equipment maintenance.
• Collaborates effectively with pharmacists, nursing staff, and other healthcare team members to ensure safe, accurate, and timely medication distribution and pharmaceutical services throughout the organization.

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent

Job description

Baptist Health Care seeks a Pharmacy Technician II - Inpatient to support hospital-wide unit dose drug distribution and the intravenous admixture program. Under pharmacist supervision, you will prepare sterile products, manage inventory, and assist with compliance and safety processes at the Pensacola campus.

Responsibilities include stocking ADCs, labeling, assisting with narcotics, and collaboration with pharmacists and nursing staff to ensure safe, timely medication distribution.