Pharmacy Technicians

Pharmacy Technicians typically perform the following tasks: • Receive written prescription or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate. • Enter prescription information into computer databases. • Establish or maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients. • Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs. • Receive and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices, check for outdated medications in current inventory, and inform supervisors of stock needs and shortages. • Answer telephones, responding to questions or requests. • Assist customers by answering simple questions, locating items, or referring them to the pharmacist for medication information. • Operate cash registers to accept payment from customers. • Price and file prescriptions that have been filled. • Mix pharmaceutical preparations, according to written prescriptions. • Order, label, and count stock of medications, chemicals, or supplies and enter inventory data into computer. • Clean and help maintain equipment or work areas and sterilize glassware, according to prescribed methods. • Prepack bulk medicines, fill bottles with prescribed medications, and type and affix labels. • Compute charges for medication or equipment dispensed to hospital patients and enter data in computer. • Prepare and process medical insurance claim forms and records. • Transfer medication from vials to the appropriate number of sterile, disposable syringes, using aseptic techniques. • 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. • Supply and monitor robotic machines that dispense medicine into containers and label the containers. • Deliver medications or pharmaceutical supplies to patients, nursing stations, or surgery. • Maintain and merchandise home healthcare products or services.