Pharmacy Technician; PRN​/EVERGREEN

Job Description - Pharmacy Technician (PRN/As Needed) - EVERGREEN (250002IA)

• Minimum Education
  • High School Diploma or GED (Required)
  • Associate's Degree science related field and 1 year of hospital experience as a hospital Pharmacy technician (Preferred)
• Minimum Work Experience
  • 2 years Experience in a hospital (Preferred)
• Required Skills/Knowledge
  • Accurate data entry skills
  • Able to read write and speak English fluently
  • Strong time management and organizational skills
  • Excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing.
• Required Licenses and Certifications
  • Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) Registered Pharmacy technician in the District of Columbia (Required)

Maintain Pyxis drawer configuration and contents; print standard and special request reports.

Maintain records of controlled substance orders, receipt, and disposition.

• Maintain kit system for Operating Room and other areas as needed.

• Coordinate purchasing of drugs and related items, note receipt of product, processes invoices, and assures payment through system.

Interact with vendors and other departments.

Obtain usage information or provide analyses of drug usage as requested.

• Train and orient Pharmacy Technicians.

• Identify areas for cost reduction through reducing acquisition cost or improved inventory control.
• Assure that items purchased by CNMC are on contract and when possible, are at the lowest possible price and are of high quality.

• Responsible for inventory control, note low stock items in the “Want Book” and prepack bulk medication as needed.

• Fill, exchange, and credit medication carts upon authorization of the Pharmacist; return usable stock to inventory upon crediting.

Mix intravenous preparation with additives (including total parenteral nutrition solutions).

• Reconstitute and prepare injections (including antineoplastic medication).

Receive and sort medication orders.

• Select and prepare appropriate medication for new medication orders, unit dose carts and outpatient prescriptions.

• Anticipate and responds to customer needs; follows up until needs are met

Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior

Partner with all team members to achieve goals

• Receptive to others’ ideas and opinions

Contribute to a positive work environment

Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change

Identify opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes

• Make appropriate decisions, using sound judgment

• Search for less costly ways of doing things

Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance

Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation

Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation

Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication

Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers

• Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance

District of Columbia - Washington

CN Hospital (Main Campus) 111 Michigan Avenue NW Washington 20010

Allied Health

Shift: Variable

Work Schedule:

Variable

Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The “Know Your Rights” poster is available here: and the pay transparency policy is available here:

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Please note that it is the policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a “drug-free” work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors). Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children's National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.