Pharmacist

• Coordinate and monitor daily workflow in the pharmacy
• Lead team huddles and provide initial coaching and direction to pharmacy technicians
• Interact with healthcare providers and provide guidance to patients about medication coverage
• Support and train new employees
• Conduct quality and productivity audits
• Identify ongoing training and retraining opportunities on the team
• Create, modify, and adhere to SOP/SWI
• Cross-train in multiple areas while maintaining proficiency and accuracy
• Champion continuous improvement efforts for the team, site, and work stream
• Manage multiple tasks without sacrificing attention to detail

Pharmacy Technician Lead Representative

• Provide inpatient pharmacy services on nights, working a 7-days-on/7-days-off schedule
• Rotate through central dispensing and decentralized clinical areas
• Perform clinical services to optimize drug therapy and document clinical interventions
• Provide medication therapy management, including pharmacokinetics, parenteral nutrition, serum creatinine, and therapeutic drug monitoring
• Advise physicians on formulary medications and alternative therapeutic options
• Provide drug information to physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals
• Participate in code arrest response and ensure medication availability
• Identify, prevent, and investigate adverse drug reactions and medication errors
• Provide drug-related patient counseling information
• Review and interpret physician orders for incompatibilities, interactions, duplicates, and contraindications
• Contact nursing personnel and prescribers regarding questions on drug orders
• Dispense and label oral medications and IV solutions
• Use electronic health records, automated dispensing machines, compounders, unit dosing, tube systems, and clinical decision support/data mining tools
• Process patient charges and credits
• Assist with maintaining drug supplies and verifying physical inventory
• Manage controlled-substance legal and professional controls, including documenting waste
• Supervise and oversee licensed and non-licensed supportive personnel
• Report adverse drug reactions, medication errors, and good catches
• Assist with training new pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
• Follow regulatory, organizational, hospital, departmental, safety, and patient-care policies
• Report safety incidents and participate in safety-related training
• Participate in quality improvement and clinical projects as an active member of the patient care team

Inpatient Pharmacist

• Coordinate and monitor daily workflow in the pharmacy
• Lead team huddles and provide initial coaching and direction to pharmacy technicians
• Interact with healthcare providers and provide guidance to patients about medication coverage
• Support and train new employees
• Conduct quality and productivity audits
• Identify ongoing training and retraining opportunities on the team
• Create, modify, and adhere to SOP/SWI
• Cross-train in multiple areas while maintaining proficiency and accuracy
• Champion continuous improvement efforts for the team, site, and work stream
• Juggle multiple tasks without sacrificing attention to detail

Lead Pharmacy Technician

• Support Medicaid Prior Authorization as a Clinical Pharmacist for Aetna
• Apply evidence-based clinical guidelines and criteria in clinical decision-making
• Utilize formularies and preferred drug lists
• Review medical records and clinical literature
• Compose SOAP notes
• Work in a high-production team environment
• Work the assigned AZ-time shift, scheduled Saturdays, and occasional holidays

Clinical Pharmacist – Aetna Medicaid Prior Authorization

• Obtain and verify medication history in the electronic medical record accurately and timely, complying with standard procedures and regulatory standards
• Document medication lists accurately in the electronic health record
• Communicate medication information to the verifying pharmacist
• Relay outstanding transition-of-care issues to the pharmacist and/or provider
• Assist pharmacists with collecting and documenting up-to-date medication lists for admitted hospital patients
• Perform other duties as assigned

Medical Reconciliation Pharmacy Technician

• Work in hospital, retail, and ambulatory infusion clinic pharmacy settings
• Prepare prescription orders, including sterile and non-sterile hazardous and non-hazardous preparations
• Prepare unit doses and manage automated dispensing machine cart fills, stocking, restocking, reports, and documentation
• Dispense medications and retrieve narcotics in compliance with controlled-substance requirements
• Assist with purchasing, inventory control, stocking, returns, expiration-date monitoring, inspections, and temperature logs
• Perform specialized duties in IV room sterile compounding, inventory, automation, ambulatory infusion, retail/specialty pharmacy, or medication reconciliation as assigned
• Compound chemotherapy, total parenteral nutrition, IV admixtures, and other sterile or non-sterile pharmaceuticals as assigned
• Maintain quality assurance documentation and clean sterile and non-sterile workspaces
• Obtain, verify, and document medication histories through patient and family interviews
• Collaborate with pharmacists, physicians, clinical staff, patients, visitors, and hospital staff
• Perform other duties as assigned

Advanced Practice Pharmacy Technician

• Process prior authorization requests received by phone, fax, or electronically
• Use computer resources, existing criteria, and medication guidelines to perform clinical research supporting prior authorization reviews
• Complete prior authorization approvals and denials due to expire
• Maintain complete, timely, and accurate documentation
• Review potential prior authorization denial language to ensure NCQA requirements are met
• Follow prior authorization workflows, policies, and procedures
• Answer high-volume prior authorization inquiry calls from provider offices, pharmacies, and internal partners
• Communicate prior authorization status or decisions using computer resources
• Balance productivity, quality, and timeliness of work
• Participate in required training, continuing education, and team or departmental meetings
• Work scheduled 8-hour shifts within operating hours of 5:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; overnight shifts may be available
• Complete 40 hours per week, including weekends and holidays when scheduled
• Work extended hours when necessary and participate in a rotating weekend schedule

Pharmacy Technician – Prior Authorizations

• Deliver pharmaceutical care to patients using the medication use process
• Document all components of pharmaceutical care delivered to patients
• Oversee pharmacy technicians and interns, coordinate workflow, and approve medications before dispensing
• Assess patient data and provide age-appropriate pharmaceutical care
• Process medication orders and evaluate appropriateness and completeness using patient data
• Assess medication regimens and formulate recommendations for safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness
• Contact prescribers with improvement suggestions and resolve medication-order problems
• Serve as a resource for patients and the healthcare team and provide medication information
• Comply with Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee/Clinical Consensus Group directives
• Document patient-care activities in electronic medical records and other databases
• Pursue professional development using BPS educational resources and assist with staff training and onboarding
• Prepare and dispense sterile and non-sterile compounded medications accurately and timely
• Coordinate medication preparation and distribution
• Oversee pharmacy day-to-day operations, including technology, inventory management, and record keeping
• Supervise and direct pharmacy technicians, interns, and students

Acute Clinical Staff Pharmacist

• Work under pharmacist supervision performing routine duties in packaging, distribution, non-sterile compounding, and pharmaceutical supply record-keeping
• Serve as a liaison between customers and pharmacists
• Prepare compounded intravenous medications, total parenteral nutrition products, and chemotherapeutic agents in compliance with USP regulations
• Use pharmacy computer systems to investigate and respond to missing medication requests
• Identify medications and items for reorder and maintain continuous inventory
• Receive, verify, and restock medications from wholesalers and vendors
• Manage users in automated dispensing technology databases
• Investigate discrepancies and troubleshoot automated dispensing technology malfunctions
• Provide customer service to patients, visitors, staff, physicians, and internal customers
• Restock medications to nursing and ancillary areas, trays, code carts, and emergency boxes
• Compound non-sterile medication products and repackage bulk medications into unit-of-use packaging
• Perform equipment calibrations, quality control activities, nursing unit inspections, pharmacy section checks, and documentation
• Handle narcotic and controlled-substance medications according to legal and policy requirements
• Compound and label intravenous non-hazardous compounds using sterile and aseptic techniques
• Complete environmental cleaning and required documentation
• May educate and train Pharmacy Technicians, Technician Externs, Technician Trainees, and volunteers

Acute Pharmacy Technician

• Process prior authorization requests received by phone, fax, or electronically
• Use computer resources, existing criteria, and medication guidelines to perform clinical research supporting prior authorization reviews
• Complete prior authorization approvals and denials that are due to expire
• Maintain complete, timely, and accurate documentation
• Review potential prior authorization denial language to ensure NCQA requirements are met
• Follow prior authorization workflows, policies, and procedures
• Answer high-volume prior authorization inquiry calls from provider offices, pharmacies, and internal partners
• Communicate prior authorization status or decisions using multiple computer resources
• Balance productivity, quality, and timeliness of work
• Participate in required training, continuing education, and team or departmental meetings