Pharmacy Technologist at Bethesda Healthcare Services

The incumbent is responsible for preparing medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders, detecting therapeutic incompatibilities; dispensing medications and controlling medications by monitoring drug therapies and advising on any side effects.

Job Responsibilities

• Receive written prescriptions or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate.
• Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs.
• File prescriptions that have been filled.
• Establish and maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients.
• Order, label and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices and inform supervisors of stock needs and shortages.
• Compute charges for medication and equipment dispensed to facility patients and enter data in the computer.
• Dispense medications and pharmaceutical supplies to patients, nursing stations and other departments.
• Price stock and mark items for sale.
• Maintains pharmacy inventory by checking pharmaceutical stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed medications and supplies; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; removing outdated drugs.
• Observes professional ethics for the benefit of the law, the patient, the relatives of the patient and colleagues.
• Maintain supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies.
• To monitor the effects of medical drugs after they have been licensed for use, especially in order to identify and evaluate previously unreported adverse reactions.

Qualifications

• Diploma in Pharmacy.
• Registered and licensed by the PPB