Pharmacy Student Technician - Scottish Rite

Children's Healthcare Of Atlanta • Atlanta, GA

219d

About The Position

A pharmacy student technician is a student actively enrolled in pharmacy school who assists pharmacists and prepares medications to be dispensed under the direct supervision of a registered pharmacist according to state and federal law.

Requirements

• Actively enrolled in pharmacy school
• Georgia pharmacy intern license
• Proficient in reading, writing, and mathematics
• Knowledge of medical/pharmaceutical terminology
• Good organizational skills and ability to learn and use computer systems

Nice To Haves

• Previous pharmacy technician or intern role

Responsibilities

• Performs all job functions as described in the Pharmacy Technician I job description.
• Assists pharmacists by anticipating and prioritizing workload accurately and efficiently, organizes and prioritizes phone calls, window traffic, and workload effectively and keeps pharmacist informed, maintains a smooth workflow in area by utilizing problem-solving skills.
• Precepts new and existing staff members, participates in orientation and training of new and existing employees, uses effective educational techniques in all training and educational activities, identifies performance deficiencies of new employees and provides feedback/training in an effort to correct deficiencies, provides feedback of employee progress routinely to Education Pharmacist or team leaders.
• Maintains individual competence and develops professional practice skills, participates in required departmental training, education, and certification, completes all required orientation/training checklist(s) and modules, completes projects to develop professional skills and achieve department goals, uses extra time advantageously to help others or work on department projects, contributes to achievement of department goals and objectives through effective participation and exhibits proficient performance in at least two work areas.
• Demonstrates leadership skills, demonstrates ability to assess situations and bring issues or concerns to attention of pharmacist or team leader, demonstrates effective time management, project management, and inventory control skills.
• Prepares and compounds IV medications by using aseptic techniques to ensure safe products for patients under direct pharmacist supervision, accurately prepares and compounds medications, including intravenous fluids, parenteral nutrition, chemotherapy solutions, and drips. Demonstrates aseptic technique when preparing sterile intravenous preparations and obtains yearly re-certification of aseptic technique. Prepares and maintains adequate supply of stock solutions, documents on all intravenous compounding logs as appropriate, uses available technology (e.g. i.v.SOFT, Baxa compounder).
• Demonstrates knowledge of Omnicell operations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: No Education Listed