Pharmacy Assistant at DEDA Hospital

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Helps health care providers and patients by greeting them in person and by phone; answering questions and requests; referring inquiries to the pharmacist.
• Maintains pharmacy inventory by checking pharmaceutical stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed medications and supplies; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; removing out-dated drugs.
• Maintains a safe and clean pharmacy by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
• Fills in Doctor’s prescription to calculate proper dosage and to prepare appropriate cost of bill to patients for drugs to be sold.
• Organizes medications to dispense by reading medication orders and prescriptions; preparing labels; calculating      quantities; assembling intravenous solutions and other pharmaceutical therapies.
• Maintains records by recording and filing physicians' orders and prescriptions.
• Ensures medication availability by delivering medications to patients and departments.
• Prepares reports by collecting and summarizing information.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

REQUIREMENTS

• Degree in Pharmacology or its equivalent
• Must be computer literate
• Has knowledge of the use of EMR
• Minimum of 3 years clinical experience in a hospital