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Our sterile pharmacy technicians play a crucial role in the preparation of sterile medications.
The core duty of a sterile compounding pharmacy technician is to prepare sterile medications following specific formulations and guidelines. This may involve compounding powders, liquids, or injections to create custom-made sterile products tailored to individual patient needs. Their responsibilities primarily revolve around ensuring the safe and accurate compounding of sterile pharmaceutical products.
This role involves compliance with regulatory requirements, maintaining high productivity, and ensuring the proper handling and storage of medications. The technician will work in the intravenous cleanroom suite, preparing sterile products, managing inventory, and assisting with inspections and quality control processes.
Responsibilities include:
Measures, weighs, counts, and compounds medications
Mixes pharmaceutical preparations according to formulation logs
Establishes and maintains accurate patient records by entering correct lot numbers and expiration dates of compounded medications
Maintains proper storage and security conditions for drugs
Preparation and compounding of sterile products
Maintaining the pharmacy clean room suite to USP 797 requirements
Experience using a repeater pump
Inventory management and storage, complete appropriate documentation, such as labels, log sheets and reports
Clean equipment and sterilize glassware using dry heat ovens or autoclaves
Performs to established efficiency metrics while adhering to quality standards
Maintains compliance with Company and HIPAA patient confidentiality requirements
Performs other duties as assigned.
Perform sterile compounding functions in a Category 3 clean room
Set up sterile products for dispensing and make appropriate record entries.
Maintain a high degree of accuracy and productivity in patient care contributions.
Monitor physical inventory and notify procurement of stock levels and shortages.
Participate in glove fingertip and media fill testing to maintain competencies.
Requirements
Must hold an active Texas Pharmacy Technician License Board
One year of experience in a sterile environment
Knowledge of sterile compounding concepts and principles.
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