City/State:
Bronx, New York Grant Funded:
No Department:
RX - Moses Day Work Shift:
Day Work Days:
EVENINGS VARY Scheduled Hours:
12:30 PM-9 PM Scheduled Daily Hours:
7.5 HOURS Hourly Rate:
$23.33
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Job Summary
Under direct supervision of a pharmacist and in accordance with specific and detailed instructions, dispenses and compounds prescribed medications for patient care in keeping with New York State Law. Packages, labels, manufactures, and distributes pharmaceuticals in all areas of the department including inpatient drug distribution, ambulatory services, sterile product preparation, and service to other departments. Reviews and monitors medications and orders written by clinicians to determine safety and efficacy, in addition to answering drug information questions. Other duties include inventory control, patient care area inspections, replenishing emergency boxes, and ensuring the safe and appropriate patient use of drugs, collection of clinical information. Perform other related duties and utilizes automated and computerized technology as required.
Essential Functions
1. Assist pharmacist(s) with interpretation of medication orders to ensure accurate doses and frequencies.
* Demonstrates knowledge of pharmacotherapy, identifies issues appropriately, with an attention to detail.
2. Ability to use clinical information systems for retrieval or review of patient information, report generation, and label printing.
* Accesses patient profiles with ease and in compliance with HIPAA standards, print reports and labels as well as the disposal of patient health information, and interpretation of reports.
3. Communicates with other healthcare personnel.
* Information is accurate and communicated appropriately and politely.
4. Collects patient specific clinical information, age, weight, height, laboratory data, diagnosis or indications.
* Information transcribed accurately.
5. Prepares, labels, and delivers patient medication cassettes and unit doses in order to provide drug therapy. Ensures cassette floor stock meet par levels. Census discrepancies rectified through the use of census and transfer reports.
* Cassettes and medications prepared without errors and on a timely basis in accordance with center guidelines and procedures and quality improvement standards. Cassette labels are typed and include two patient identifiers. Cassette floor stock is not in over or short supply
6. Prepares sterile and non-sterile products and parenteral solutions, including TPN, syringes, and pediatric syringes according to protocol or worksheet for pharmacist verification.
* Adheres to aseptic technique, products prepared in laminar airflow hood, compounding records are fully completed and solutions meet medical center quality assurance and improvement standards.
7. Ability to use automated dispensing cabinets for medication refill, information review, loading, report printing, refills pockets accurately, uses scanner, repairs pockets and pharmacy console for information review and report generation.
* Pockets are refilled with zero error, inventory counts are accurate, broken pockets are repaired, reports are correctly printed, and all expired or deteriorated medications are removed.
8. Maintain accurate files, statistics, orders, reports and records pertaining to medication use and requests.
* All statistics are properly recorded; order, fill lists, active medication profiles, requisitions and other records are filed in accordance with policy and procedure.
9. Prepares and delivers controlled substances, loads or unloads inventory from automated dispensing cabinets, enters requests into business information system, accepts…