Pharmacy Technician Specialist - Inpatient

Overview

SUMMARY:

Reports to Pharmacy Manager, Director, or their designee. Under the supervision of a pharmacist and direction of a Pharmacy Technician Supervisor, the Pharmacy Technician Specialist, Inpatient utilizes experience-based knowledge to perform advanced technical functions in preparing, formulating, and packaging medication and pharmaceutical supplies. Assists with coordinating technician activities in assigned areas in keeping with the scope of services provided, assists with workload when necessary.

Interacts professionally with providers, pharmacists, nurses, peers, and support personnel. Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization s values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers and one another. In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done.

The core Success Factors include:
Instill Trust and Value Differences Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate.

• Within assigned area of Central Operations, Central Sterile Compounding, and Operating Rooms responsibility: reviews and analyzes operations on an on-going basis; recommends and implements approved operational changes and new technology to increase efficiency and level of pharmacy services in collaboration with Pharmacy leadership.
• Establishes effective and timely communication with staff to facilitate the flow of operations.
• Participates in the recruitment, orientation, in-service training, performance enhancement, competency assessment, and retention of staff in collaboration with Pharmacy leadership.
• Assists with the coordination of technician activities and workload in the performance of their normal job duties; provides resource assistance and guidance; assists with workload as needed.
• Coordinates quality assurance activities; ensures medication supply areas are neat and orderly; hazardous medications are segregated appropriately; medications are stored under proper conditions for light, temperature, and sanitation.
• Participates in quality assessment and improvement activities and medication safety initiatives of the pharmacy and the hospital; utilizes approved process for reporting actual, prevented and near miss medication errors.
• Keeps pharmacy leadership apprised of significant personnel or operational issues should any arise; interacts professionally with providers, pharmacists, nurses, peers, and support personnel.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Assumes responsibility for central pharmacy operations including controlled substance inventory management, operating room medication inventory management, pharmacy, and hospital-wide medication related quality assurance auditing.
• Assesses and recommends operational workflow enhancements for central operations.
• Prepares, formulates, and packages medications, including controlled substances, and pharmaceutical supplies under the supervision of a pharmacist and with consideration to the age of the patient populations being served.
• Assists pharmacy technicians as workload or need arises including automation, non-sterile compounding, inventory management and delivery.
• Participates in continuous quality improvement activities related to central operations.
• Assumes responsibility for central sterile compounding of parenteral medications and other IV solutions under the supervision of a pharmacist; assumes responsibility for quality assurance audits for sterile compounded medications; manages related inventory.
• Ensures sterile compounding environment and all equipment are cleaned and maintained under aseptic conditions in accordance with SOPs; performs hand hygiene and garbing per SOPs.
• Performs sterile compounding of parenteral medications and other IV solutions under the supervision of a pharmacist and in compliance with USP guidelines and Brown University Health policies and SOPs.
• Demonstrates aseptic technique and compounding workflow to new personnel; coordinates and maintains documentation required for sterile formulations competencies.
• Coordinates and ensures completion and documentation of required daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning of the sterile compounding area, and environmental testing; ensures documentation is complete and supplies are restocked.
• Assists with workload as needed in sterile compounding, chemotherapy, and IV solution inventory management and delivery.
• Assesses and recommends operational workflow enhancements for operating rooms and peri-operative patient care areas; participates in continuous quality improvement activities related to these areas.
• Assists with optimization of medication inventory in automated dispensing cabinets located in operating rooms and peri-operative areas.

• BASIC KNOWLEDGE High school graduate or equivalent. Completion of one to two years of college preferred. Holds and maintains current…