Pharmacy Technician, Correctional Health Services (Full-time)

Organizational Responsibilities

• Picks up patient medication orders from clinic, mini-clinic areas, etc. on a routine basis.
• Scans medication orders to other buildings or central pharmacy.
• Affirms all work performed by the Pharmacy Technician.
• Fills and labels patient cassettes with non-carry and carry system medication bags from computer generated fill lists, and/or original drug orders.
• Fills and labels patient discharge medications from a prescription order.
• Fills and labels DOT medications.
• Obtains court medication list from General Office.
• Reviews distribution list to see if patient will be getting medication in morning.
• Reviews what is in Pyxis. If medication is not in Pyxis, provides dose for morning court medications.
• Notifies pharmacist of missing methadone doses.
• Notifies pharmacist of missing methadone doses.
• Prints and reviews all transfer reports.
• Prints and reviews patient medication profile and fills needed doses of medication for subsequent checking by pharmacist.
• Contacts the clinic captain, control room or tour commander in the event of DOC related delays in distributing medications.
• Contacts on-island administrator in the event of a delay or any other occurrences or problems which adversely affects the above procedures.
• Maintains patient confidentiality of all pharmacy and clinical information.
• Disposes of unneeded reports and labels in the shredding containers only.
• Sets up and operates liquid and solid unit dose repackaging machines.
• Packages oral solids into plastic zip-lock bags for the carry system.
• Maintains proper record keeping and control procedures as outlined in the Packaging policy.

Medication Distribution

• Distributes medication that has been checked and approved by the pharmacist to the correctly identified patient for self-administration in the proper way and at the proper time.
• Records receipt of the medication by the patient by clearly initialing and recording the number of days’ supply given on the MDR and by computer entry.
• Refers to the pharmacist or clinic any patient who requires further information concerning their medication, is non-compliant, or is having difficulty tolerating their medication.
• Contacts the clinic captain, control room or tour commander in the event of DOC related delays in distributing medications.
• Contacts on-island administrator in the event of a delay or any other occurrences or problems which adversely affects the above procedures.
• Maintains patient confidentiality of all pharmacy and clinical information.