Will “Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT)” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔

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“Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT)” will probably be replaced by robots.

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Job Description

Prepare medications under the direction of a pharmacist. May measure, mix, count out, label, and record amounts and dosages of medications according to prescription orders.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-2052.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 32,170.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 15.00
Currently, there are 398,390 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Pharmacy Technicians”.

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Tasks for “Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT)”

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Receive and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices, check for outdated medications in current inventory, and inform supervisors of stock needs and shortages.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

Related Technology & Tools

Graduated cylinders
Petri dishes
Laminar flow hoods
Automatic bottle filling machines
Computer laser printers
Intravenous IV supplies
Benchtop colloid mills
Syringes
Bunsen burners
Horizontal and vertical flow hoods
Single-beam balances
Label printers
Filtering devices
Tube filling and crimping machines
Torsion balances
Notebook computers
Centrifuges
Autoclaves
Total Parenteral Nutrition TPN compounders
Flask washers
Point of sale POS computer terminals
Double-beam balances
Automatic unit dose strip packaging machines
Test tubes
Computer-based dispensing equipment
Equal-arm balances
Semiautomatic sterile solution transferring devices
Unequal-arm balances
Grinding and shearing colloid mills
Specific gravity testing equipment
Tablet counting machines
Blending/agitating machines
Colloid mills
Evacuated blood collection containers
Cash registers
Agar slides
Incubators
Personal computers
Robotic dispensing systems
Desktop computers
Sterilizing equipment
Water distillation equipment
Laboratory vacuum pumps

Prescription processing software
Inventory management software
Point of sale POS software
Database software
Pharmacy management software
Patient record maintenance software
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Word
Billing and reimbursement software
Label-making software
Compounder software
Drug compatibility software
MEDITECH software
Microsoft Excel
Cardinal Health Pyxis CII Safe
Pharmaceutical software