Job Summary
Pharmacy Technician Inpatient in an inpatient healthcare facility. This role involves assisting pharmacists with medication preparation, compounding, repackaging, filling, and delivery activities, ensuring compliance with infection control and aseptic techniques. The technician will support medication procurement, record keeping, storage, and distribution, contributing to safe and accurate medication dispensing for patients across all age groups.
Job Details
- Shift Time: Rotating
- Schedule:
- Shift #1: 11pm – 7:30am (weekdays & weekends)
- Shift #2: 3pm-11:30pm (weekdays & weekends)
- Minimum Hours Per Week: 40
- Required Qualifications:
- Pharmacy Certification and Education: Required – RPHT-TX (Registered Pharmacy Technician from TX State Board of Pharmacy) or PHAR INT (Pharmacy Intern from State Board of Pharmacy)
- Certification: Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (Preferred)
- Experience: 0 years minimum, experience requirement: 0 years
- Location Requirement: Must be authorized to work in the specified state
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Sterile compounding certification is preferred but not required
- Experience working at inpatient healthcare facilities is preferred
- Epic experience is preferred but not required
- Additional Information:
- Assists in procurement, record keeping, storage, and distribution of controlled substances.
- Verifies medication accuracy based on diagnosis, weight, allergies, and body surface area entered into the computer.
- Follows aseptic techniques and infection control practices in sterile product preparation.
- Completes annual recertification with at least 90% score on aseptic technique/infection control skills and written exam as documented by a qualified observer.
- Ensures medication correctness, batch/medication/prescription order entry competence, and proper stock management.
- Works with Pharmacy Support Services personnel to maintain adequate medication and supply inventory, following established procedures for stock replacement and nonformulary protocols.
- Obtains pharmacist initial/final checks, assigns dilution and expiration dating labels according to standards.
Benefits
- The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:
- Private housing or generous housing allowance
- Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
- Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
- Competitive salaries
- Referral bonuses
- Travel reimbursement
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Direct deposit/free checking
- Unlimited free CE credits
