Will “Hospital Pharmacy Tech (Hospital Pharmacy Technician)” be Automated?

Core Skills & Abilities

• Assist customers by answering simple questions, locating items, or referring them to the pharmacist for medication information.

• Mix pharmaceutical preparations, according to written prescriptions.

• Order, label, and count stock of medications, chemicals, or supplies and enter inventory data into computer.

• Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs.

• Maintain and merchandise home healthcare products or services.

• Answer telephones, responding to questions or requests.

• Clean and help maintain equipment or work areas and sterilize glassware, according to prescribed methods.

• Compute charges for medication or equipment dispensed to hospital patients and enter data in computer.

• Establish or maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients.

• Prepack bulk medicines, fill bottles with prescribed medications, and type and affix labels.

• Price and file prescriptions that have been filled.

• Enter prescription information into computer databases.

• Operate cash registers to accept payment from customers.

• 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.

• Receive written prescription or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate.

• Transfer medication from vials to the appropriate number of sterile, disposable syringes, using aseptic techniques.

• Deliver medications or pharmaceutical supplies to patients, nursing stations, or surgery.

• Price stock and mark items for sale.

• Receive and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices, check for outdated medications in current inventory, and inform supervisors of stock needs and shortages.

• Prepare and process medical insurance claim forms and records.