Per Diem - Pharmacy Tech

About the role

Fills and delivers medication orders and prescriptions for hospital inpatients and outpatients. Prepares patient medications in accordance with established protocols, methods, and techniques.

Responsibilities

• Fills standing inpatient medication orders in individual cassettes following computer-generated lists and fills new orders/prescriptions from physician orders.
• Delivers cassettes and individual medications to units and collects new medication orders according to established procedures and schedules.
• Measures, mixes, and compounds irrigations, parenteral, intravenous, and oral medications in specified volumes, dosages, concentrations, and manual addition of medication and/or electrolytes to TPNs.
• Labels and records manufactured medications as required.
• Receives and fills pharmaceutical supply requests for nursing units, satellite locations, and other areas.
• Monitors, restocks, and rotates routine supplies, removing and replacing outdated products and processing related patient charges and credits.
• Restocks emergency code cart trays and prepares and maintains corresponding logs and records.
• Performs all automated dispensing functions.
• Performs routine quality control and equipment maintenance tasks according to established procedures and schedules, and prepares and maintains related logs and records.
• Maintains neatness and organization of work area.
• Answers, screens, and routes telephone calls as needed; refers medical/drug information questions or administrative inquiries to the pharmacist.
• Trains to measure, mix, and compound automated TPNs, irrigations, and chemotherapy drugs in specified volumes, dosages, and concentrations.
• Trains to prepare special dilutions of non-controlled and controlled substances, IV, and research study medications as needed.

Skills

• Maintains knowledge of current professional trends and practices through participation in professional organizations and attendance at conferences, workshops, and continuing education programs.

Pay

The posted pay range is Boston Children’s reasonable and good-faith expectation for this pay at the time of posting. Any base pay offer provided depends on skills, experience, education, certifications, and a variety of other job-related factors.

Benefits

• Flexible schedules
• Affordable health, vision, and dental insurance
• Child care and student loan subsidies
• Generous levels of time off
• 403(b) Retirement Savings plan
• Pension
• Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement
• Cell phone plan discounts
• Discounted rates on T-passes