Pharmacy Technicians

Prepare medications under the direction of a pharmacist. May measure, mix, count out, label, and record amounts and dosages of medications.

Job Task

• Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs.
• Operate cash registers to accept payment from customers.
• Order, label, and count stock of medications, chemicals, and supplies, and enter inventory data into computer.
• Price stock and mark items for sale.
• Receive and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices, and inform supervisors of stock needs and shortages.
• Establish and maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients.
• Maintain and merchandise home health-care products and services.
• Prepare and process medical insurance claim forms and records.
• Add measured drugs or nutrients to intravenous solutions under sterile conditions to prepare intravenous (IV) packs under pharmacist supervision.
• Compute charges for medication and equipment dispensed to hospital patients, and enter data in computer.
• Fill bottles with prescribed medications and type and affix labels.
• Mix pharmaceutical preparations according to written prescriptions.
• Price and file prescriptions that have been filled.
• Receive written prescription or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate.
• Supply and monitor robotic machines that dispense medicine into containers, and label the containers.
• Transfer medication from vials to the appropriate number of sterile, disposable syringes, using aseptic techniques.
• Answer telephones, responding to questions or requests.
• Assist customers by answering simple questions, locating items or referring them to the pharmacist for medication information.
• Clean, and help maintain, equipment and work areas, and sterilize glassware according to prescribed methods.
• Deliver medications and pharmaceutical supplies to patients, nursing stations or surgery.

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