Pharmacy Technicians

Tasks

Core Tasks Include:

• Receive written prescription or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate.
• Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs.
• Answer telephones, responding to questions or requests.
• Assist customers by answering simple questions, locating items, or referring them to the pharmacist for medication information.
• Price and file prescriptions that have been filled.
• Clean and help maintain equipment or work areas and sterilize glassware, according to prescribed methods.
• Establish or maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients.
• Order, label, and count stock of medications, chemicals, or supplies and enter inventory data into computer.
• Mix pharmaceutical preparations, according to written prescriptions.
• Operate cash registers to accept payment from customers.
• Prepack bulk medicines, fill bottles with prescribed medications, and type and affix labels.
• Receive and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices, check for outdated medications in current inventory, and inform supervisors of stock needs and shortages.
• Enter prescription information into computer databases.

Supplemental Tasks Include:

• Transfer medication from vials to the appropriate number of sterile, disposable syringes, using aseptic techniques.
• Supply and monitor robotic machines that dispense medicine into containers and label the containers.
• Prepare and process medical insurance claim forms and records.
• Compute charges for medication or equipment dispensed to hospital patients and enter data in computer.
• Deliver medications or pharmaceutical supplies to patients, nursing stations, or surgery.
• Price stock and mark items for sale.
• Maintain and merchandise home healthcare products or services.
• Restock intravenous (IV) supplies and add measured drugs or nutrients to IV solutions under sterile conditions to prepare IV packs for various uses, such as chemotherapy medication.

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