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Pharmacy Technician - Inpatient
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 41 days ago
About the Role
Inpatient Pharmacy Technician Provides support for the hospital staff by reading and interpreting orders, obtaining the proper medication or material in the proper dose and strength. Works alongside the Pharmacist to ensure the correct medication is compounded, packaged, and delivered to the correct patient, provider, or automated dispensing system. The 2-page Resume requirement does not apply to this occupational series. For more information, refer to Required Documents below.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include, but are not limited to: A.
- →Reads and interprets prescriptions; obtains proper medication strength and dosage form; determines proper amount and counts, pours, or measures the medications; affixes proper label.
- →Performs final review of unit dose medications when prepared by another technician, (tech check tech) to be dispensed to inpatient areas without secondary review when necessary.
- →Inventories and replenishes emergency carts with appropriate medications and supplies as assigned.
- →Operates and maintains complicated pharmacy equipment including but not limited to OmnicellTM, BD IV Prep, laminar flow hoods, etc.
- →Able to troubleshoot the equipment and the technology platforms/databases.
- →Compounds and/or reconstitutes oral or external medications (non-sterile).
- →This includes calculating and converting to proper weights and measures the amount of drug or solution to be used.
- →After prescription/order(s) are reviewed by a pharmacist, reviews orders for technical accuracy so that the item dispensed corresponds to the drug and dose ordered.
- →Assists in total quality improvement activities by participating in medical center and service process assessment and action teams, continually seeks to improve services.
- →Conducts ward inspections of patient care areas.
- →Maintains, verifies, stocks, and replaces medications expiring in patient care areas and the areas' automated dispensing machines.
- →Ensures all look alike, sound alike, high alert, refrigerated medications are stored properly according to manufactures recommendations and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) requirement.
- →Monitors inventory needs in patient care areas, relays this information to the appropriate pharmacy personnel.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Personality Fit
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