Dispenses medication under the supervision of a pharmacist.
Action Steps:
- Investigates medication related issues or missing doses as needed
- Accurately calculates doses to ensure an adequate supply in automated dispensing cabinet (ADC)
- Loads ADC in a timely and accurate manner according to max/min levels, adjusting for holidays and weekends
- Delivers medications to patient units in a timely manner to ensure precise administration times
- Replenishes unit floor stock medications
- Prepares discharge medications for patients by counting, labeling, and packaging the medication
- Conducts medication room inspections on a monthly basis and maintains up to date inspection logs
- Investigates and compiles information for Pyxis override reports
- Completes these tasks on a daily basis with an accuracy rate above 90%
- Completes tasks accurately and efficiently based on observation by the pharmacy director
2. Job Responsibility: Maintains Pharmacy Inventory and Supplies
Assists pharmacist with inventory of medications, supplies, and helps stock medications according to pharmaceutical protocols and procedures.
Behavioral Action Steps:
- Receives and stores incoming medications and supplies in correct locations
- Rotates stock regularly, keeping notes of when medications and supplies expire
- Monitors and replenishes stock in ADCs
- Credits and returned items are processed within 72 hours
- Accurately places returned medicines back in their appropriate locations
- Checks for expired or short dated medications in ADCs and in med rooms
- Appropriately labels bulk medication and supplies
- Maintains a compliance rate of 90% based on weekly reviews of remaining credits and supplies that are not inventoried
- Completes tasks on a daily basis
3. Job Responsibility: Provides Information and Responds To Requests
Provides routine information accurately and responds to requests responsibly.
Behavioral Action Steps:
- Provides professional, efficient, and courteous service to other healthcare providers as observed by pharmacy director
- Answers phone calls in the pharmacy in a timely manner
- Able to correctly direct calls to the appropriate personnel
- Receives and conveys information requests between pharmacy and other healthcare providers
- Researches and provides information, locates items, refers to inquiries under pharmacist supervision
- Assists hospital staff, patients, and other visitors at the pharmacy walk-up door
- Completes entries in the pharmacy intervention log when appropriate
- Maintains a compliance rate of 100% based on review of any verbal or written disciplinary actions due to professionalism related issues, as well as observation by the pharmacy director.
- Completes tasks on a daily basis
