Pharmacy Technician, Up To $21/hour, Day Shift - Minneapolis, United States - Actalent

    Actalent
    Actalent Minneapolis, United States

    3 weeks ago

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    Full time Pharmaceutical / Bio-tech
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    Job Title

    pharmacy technician

    Description

    Job functions are those tasks, duties, and responsibilities that

    comprise the means of accomplishing the job's purpose and objectives. Job

    functions are critical or fundamental to the performance of the job. They are

    the major functions for which the person in the job is held accountable.

    1. Answers phones for the pharmacy department and directs calls to appropriate personnel.

    2. Maintains knowledge of the Hospital Credit and Collection Policy and other related policies.

    3. Prepackages, prepares, labels and hands out prescriptions after they are checked by a registered pharmacist.

    4. Maintains cash registers, credit card machines and reporting for cash transactions.

    5. Prepares daily deposits for the cashier's office.

    6. Bills and credits patient medications.

    7. Stocks inventory in Pharmacy.

    8. Routinely checks and removes outdated and expired medications.

    9. Delivers medications to patient care and ancillary areas and picks up new orders as scheduled.

    10. Files prescriptions and reports.

    11. Maintains the pharmacy in a clean and organized fashion.

    12. Enters outpatient prescriptions.

    13. Obtains and records patient drug histories.

    14. Triages orders, determines priorities, processes orders and notifies the pharmacist as appropriate.

    15. Performs various calculations to determine the correct dose using weight.

    16. Identifies the appropriate product to process based on the prescription order.

    17. Triages insurance rejections and initiates prior authorization claims as needed.

    18. Uses appropriate pharmaceutical-medical terms, abbreviations and symbols.

    19. Maintains a working knowledge of general chemical and physical properties of drugs.

    20. Compounding medications as per Minnesota Board of Pharmacy rules and regulations.

    21. Responsible for safe and careful handling of chemotherapeutic medications.

    22. Assist with other duties as assigned but only after appropriate training.

    Mon-Fri - 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM with every 3rd weekend

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