Pharmacy Technician Certified; Msm; Full Time Variable

1. Maintains an accurate, current census, including cassette bin labels, for all assigned areas.
2. Maintains adequate inventory at all times, such as medications, intravenous supplies. Maintains stock of satellites, automated dispensing machines, urgent stock.
3. Returns reusable medications to stock before the end of the shift, including processing of controlled substance returns.
4. Prepares medications and puts into cassettes, automated dispensing, urgent stock; these medications must be checked by a pharmacist. Accurately fills these medication needs and performs statistical count of all doses when needed.
5. Exchanges cassettes/patient-specific bins per schedule established by management.
6. Assists in exchange of crash cart trays and auxiliary stock.
7. Conducts all required deliveries and other patient care area rounds in a timely fashion as directed by management.
8. Repackages medications as per departmental policy.
9. Prepares parenteral products under the direct supervision of a pharmacist, after appropriate training. This may include reconstitution of medications with appropriate diluents and adding to infusion bags using aseptic technique, defrosting frozen medications, and wasting of needles/equipment. May be responsible for preparing laminar flow hoods, operating repeater pumps, etc.
10. Prepares labels and affixes to product as required. Prepares medications for review by a pharmacist.
11. Obtains required signatures when delivering/provisioning controlled substances, prescription pads.
12. Performs inspections of pharmacy, nursing unit and/or clinic locations. Checking of refrigerator temperature and documentation therein.
13. Routinely checks for and removes expired medications from inventory.
14. Completes all required documentation and maintains records.
15. Completes audits of controlled substances as directed.
16. Assists in reporting and resolving controlled substance discrepancies.
17. Assists in quality control projects as assigned within the department.
18. Effective communication with nursing and other services in person and via telecommunications.
19. Maintains work environment in a clean, neat and orderly fashion.
20. Conducts all required functions under the direct supervision of a registered pharmacist.
21. Under the supervision of a pharmacist and after appropriate training, obtains medication information/history from patients and/or their caregiver for input into the electronic medical record.

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.

We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.

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Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

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