Pharmacy Technician

Hours:

• 9:30a-6p M-F
• *Training duration will begin at 8 AM

Must Haves

• Pharmacy Tech License - active, MN
• Experience in a fast pace role
• Customer service skills

Day to Day Activities:

• Answers phones for the pharmacy department and directs calls to appropriate personnel.
• Maintains knowledge of the Hospital Credit and Collection Policy and other related policies.
• Prepackages, prepares, labels and hands out prescriptions after they are checked by a registered pharmacist.
• Maintains cash registers, credit card machines and reporting for cash transactions.
• Prepares daily deposits for the cashier's office.
• Bills and credits patient medications.
• Stocks inventory in Pharmacy.
• Routinely checks and removes outdated and expired medications.
• Delivers medications to patient care and ancillary areas and picks up new orders as scheduled.
• Files prescriptions and reports.
• Maintains the pharmacy in a clean and organized fashion.
• Enters outpatient prescriptions
• Obtains and records patient drug histories
• Triages orders, determines priorities, processes orders and notifies the pharmacist as appropriate
• Performs various calculations to determine the correct dose using weight
• Identifies the appropriate product to process based on the prescription order
• Triages insurance rejections and initiates prior authorization claims as needed
• Uses appropriate pharmaceutical-medical terms, abbreviations and symbols