Pharmacy Technician
Pharmacy Technician Hiking, biking or climbing in Phoenix's Sonoran Desert - how you experience it is up to you! The Community โ Phoenix, AZ Phoenix is the capital of the southwestern U.S. state of Arizona. Known for its year-round sun and warm temperatures, it anchors a sprawling, multicity metropolitan area known as the Valley of the Sun. It's known for high-end spa resorts, Jack Nicklausโdesigned golf courses and vibrant nightclubs. Other highlights include the Desert Botanical Garden, displaying cacti and numerous native plants. Explore Phoenix The Facility โ Phoenix Indian Medical Center (PIMC)
PIMC provides direct health care services to 156,815 patients. The Tribes that comprise the Phoenix Service Unit are, The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, and the San Lucy District of the Tohono O'odham Nation, the Tonto Apache Tribe, the Yavapai-Apache Indian Tribe, and the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe. Tribal members who receive care at PIMC are often residents of the greater Phoenix area and hail from Tribes throughout the U.S. PIMC also provides specialty care to rural and remote reservation health care facilities in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah.
Population Served
The tribal identity of eligible beneficiaries receiving care at PIMC is representative of 67% of the 574 federally recognized Tribes. The top 5 Tribes represented by the PIMC patient population are the Navajo Nation of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Tribe, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, the Gila River Pima Maricopa Tribe, and the Tohono O'odham Nation.
Duties and Responsibilities (including but not limited to):
- Interpreting physicians' orders and copying them onto medication profiles;
- Assisting the pharmacist in dispensing medications for individual patients into the automated medication cabinet, from the medication profiles. This activity will require knowledge and medication profiles. This activity will require knowledge and training in drug names and strength, generic equivalents, and dosage;
- Maintaining stock control of a satellite pharmacy and is responsible for strip packaging and labeling drugs into unit dose forms. Although final work is checked by a pharmacist, it demands concentration, accuracy, and dependability; and
- Assists pharmacist in the preparation, labeling, and storage of medications for inpatients and outpatients of all age ranges receiving services at the hospital.
In the I.V. additive program, the contractor shall be required to have the same drug knowledge as above plus knowledge and training in sterile techniques, drug incompatibilities, precise and exacting mathematical computations relating dosage requirements to weights, volumes, concentration, and dilution with the following responsibilities:
- For selecting additives, compounding, visually checking for foreign particles and labeling parenteral solutions independently with only a final check by a pharmacist.
- For preparing complicated Total Parenteral Nutrition Solutions. Contractor will prepare chemotherapy after receiving proper training in Chemotherapy Techniques.
Contractor will be expected to have the knowledge and training to fill prescriptions with only a final check by a pharmacist. This activity requires the following:
- Ability to read and interpret prescriptions for drug name, strength, dose;
- Type the complete label;
- Select correct medicine, fill proper amount;
- Label the complete prescription, and
- Familiarity with drug names, generic equivalents, dosage strengths, and usual dosage range is necessary.
Other duties will include the following:
- Maintenance of the integrity of emergency crash carts;
- Filling ward and clinic drug supply orders;
- Prepackaging medication into unit-of-dispensing sizes;
- Maintaining inventory of stock and I.V. bulk solutions;
- Ward inspections; and
- Other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Must be certified by the National Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (NPTC).
- Must have inpatient experience.
- Must have a minimum of two (2) years experience as a Pharmacy Technician.
- College level training and/or past correctional experience is desirable, but not required.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) as approved by the American Heart Association (AHA).
Additional Details
- Location - Phoenix Indian Medical Center, Primary Care Medical Clinic, 4212 North 16th Street, Phoenix AZ 85016
- 7:30 a.m. โ 6:00 p.m. (10 hours shift) with 30-minutes unpaid lunch; 2) 8:00 a.m. โ 4:30 p.m. (8 hours shift) with 30-minute unpaid lunch; 3) 8:00 a.m. โ 5:00 p.m. (8 hours shift) with 60-minute unpaid lunch
- Performance Period - 12 months, with 4-12 month options
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