Description
Summary of Position:
The medication reconciliation technician improves medication safety by assisting pharmacists in the collection of up-to-date, prior to admission medication histories. Emphasis is placed on optimizing the medication reconciliation process and interfacing with patients, nurses and physicians in a professional manner.
Qualifications
Education:
• Completion of a pharmacy technician program
Experience:
• Minimum 1 year experience in an outpatient pharmacy setting
• Prefer minimum 1 year experience in a hospital/acute care pharmacy setting
• Prefer minimum 1 year experience compounding sterile products
• Prefer minimum 1 year experience working with automated dispensing systems (ie Pyxis)
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills required
• Computer literacy in common Microsoft applications
• Knowledge of electronic medical records or equivalent experience
Certifications/Licensure:
• Valid California pharmacy technician license
• Current national pharmacy technician certification (CPhT) or ability to obtain prior to start date
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk, stand, sit, and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Lifts, positions, pushes and/or transfer patients.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Working Conditions
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Routine Hospital/Healthcare & Office/Administrative conditions.
• Contact with patients and guests under a wide variety of circumstances.
• Regularly exposed to the risk of blood borne diseases.
• Exposure to infections and contagious disease.
• Exposed to hazardous anesthetic agents, body fluids and waste.
• Exposed to hazardous medications.
• Subject to hazards of flammable and explosive gases.
• Subject to varying and unpredictable situations, including the handling of emergency or crisis situations.
• Subject to pressure due to irregular hours, frequent interruptions and stressful situations due to multiple demands.
• Occasional travel to various health system locations.
Essential Functions
1. Provides consistently exceptional care at all times.
2. Improves medication safety by assisting pharmacists in the collection of up-to-date, prior-to-admission medication lists for patient admitted to the hospital or others identified as requiring the service.
3. Interviews patients and family members, contacts outpatient pharmacies for prescription records, contacts physician's offices to clarify instructions and works with pharmacists to retrieve CUREs data to provide the best possible medication history.
4. Occasionally called for an urgent med rec completion by hospitalists or ED physicians.
5. Utilizes the electronic medical record to clarify medication history via reconciling information identified from other health care facilities
6. Updates and clarifies the times of last doses taken by patients prior to being seen at the hospital.
7. Updates and clarifies allergy information in patients' records in the electronic health record.
8. Updates and clarifies immunization history in the electronic health record.
9. Optimizes the medication reconciliation process and decreases the number of med errors due to incomplete or inaccurate information.
10. Recognizes correct route and frequency of medications and distinguish inconsistencies, then inform clinical pharmacist of possible discrepancies.
11. Keep up to date on available medications in the market and their uses.
12. Maintain knowledge to distinguish between different releases of medications ie; Metoprolol Succinate vs Metoprolol Tartrate.
13. Performs data collection related to medication reconciliation and presents to committee as directed.
14. Performs the duties of an inpatient pharmacy technician as required for the efficient operation of the pharmacy department. See pharmacy technician job description for additional details.
15. Works under and is directly supervised on a day to day basis by the clinical pharmacist. Reports to the operations supervisor and director of pharmacy.
16. Responds to the needs of the department by performing other duties, as necessary.
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