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Vighter Medical Group Inpatient Pharmacy Technician in Baltimore, Maryland
Inpatient Pharmacy Technician
Job Details
Job Location
Baltimore, MD - Baltimore, MD
Position Type
Full Time
Education Level
Certification
Job Category
Health Care
Description
Title:Inpatient Pharmacy Technician
Location:Maryland VA Health Care System, Baltimore, MD
Our Company Promise
We are committed to providing our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Vighter’s Mission is to provide efficient, fast, high quality healthcare staffing to our clients.
Our Culture’s key elements are crucial to the effectiveness of our employees in accomplishing our mission. The key elements include:
Dependability
Integrity
Personability
Transparency
Responsiveness
Creating and cultivating this Culture within the organization is our commitment to our employees. Above all, Vighter employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude that they are expected to share externally with every Vighter Client and Customer.
Job Summary:
Vighter is seeking Inpatient Pharmacy Technicians to join our dynamic healthcare team and make a significant impact on the well-being of the veteran community served by the Maryland VA Health Care System. We are seeking highly skilled and compassionate professionals to provide exceptional patient care. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a collaborative team, dedicated to advancing patient health.
Reports to:
Project Manager
Principle Accountabilities:
Perform information consultation duties including supporting new and refill prescriptions, supporting patient requests, supporting physician’s requests, monitoring for drug interactions, and reporting adverse drug reactions.
Perform quality improvement duties including performing drug storage inspection, reviewing expired supplies, and producing error and workload reports and documentation.
Perform supply process duties including placing new orders, stocking/restocking shelves, inventory maintenance, producing not in stock reports.
Perform inpatient pharmacy technician duties including, but not limited to, entering orders into electronic health records, compound intravenous medication orders, compound Chemo therapeutic intravenous medications.
Understand and enforce compliance with USP 797 and USP 800 regulations to include proper wear of barrier/protective clothing, beyond use dating, and aseptic technique.
Manage patient-specific pharmacokinetic regimens to include vancomycin, anticoagulants, and aminoglycosides.
Assess metabolic needs and order therapeutic parenteral nutrition products.
Provide medication and healthcare related in-service training to clinical staff on new medications on the market, appropriate use of medications, comparison of current medication therapies, and other topics as deemed appropriate by the department head.
Provide clinical direction to pharmacy personnel.
Consult with patient care teams through multi-disciplinary rounds and antimicrobial stewardship monitoring to ensure evidence-based patient care. Document pharmacy interventions appropriately in the EHR.
Document significant adverse medication events with prescribers, in the patient’s medical record, and in the Patient Safety Reporting system.
Document and report patient safety concerns using the Patient Safety Reporting system.
Qualifications:
Must be a Certified Pharmacy Technician through either PTCB (CPhT) or NHA (ExCPT)
Proficiency in spoken and written English.
United States Citizenship.
Experience:
2+ years of experience in an inpatient setting.
Vighter, LLC is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law