Pharmacy Technician

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North Carolina (SAA)

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Skills

Safety

Follow company guidelines to ensure employee and client safety.
Follow protocol to ensure patient information protection.
Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs.
Clean and help maintain equipment or work areas and sterilize glassware, according to prescribed methods.
Follow company procedures for the proper use of PPE.

Perform clerical work in medical setting

Receive written prescription or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate.
Answer telephones, responding to questions or requests.
Establish or maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients.
Price and file prescriptions that have been filled.
Compute charges for medication or equipment dispensed to hospital patients and enter data in computer.
Establish or maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients.

Customer service and patient support

Receive written prescription or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate.
Verify accuracy of patient information.
Enter patient or treatment data into computers.
Establish or maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients.

Operate medical records technology systems

Receive written prescription or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate.
Enter prescription information into computer databases.
Enter information into databases or software programs
Enter codes or other information into computers.
Order, label, and count stock of medications, chemicals, or supplies and enter inventory data into computer.
Compute charges for medication or equipment dispensed to hospital patients and enter data in computer.
Prepare and process medical insurance claim forms and records.

Maintain inventory of medical supplies of equipment

Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs.
Receive and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices, check for outdated medications in current inventory, and inform supervisors of stock needs and shortages.
Order, label, and count stock of medications, chemicals, or supplies and enter inventory data into computer.
Maintain and merchandise home healthcare products or services.
Price stock and mark items for sale.
Restock intravenous (IV) supplies and add measured drugs or nutrients to IV solutions under sterile conditions to prepare IV packs for various uses, such as chemotherapy medication.

Prepare medication or medical solutions

Transfer medication from vials to the appropriate number of sterile, disposable syringes, using aseptic techniques.
Prepack bulk medicines, fill bottles with prescribed medications, and type and affix labels.

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