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Duke Regional Hospital has served Durham, Orange, Person, Granville and Alamance counties and the surrounding communities for nearly 40 years. With more than 1,900 employees, its focus is on providing outstanding medical care with compassionate, personalized service in a comfortable community hospital setting. Duke Regional Hospital has 369 inpatient beds and offers a comprehensive range of medical, surgical and diagnostic services, including orthopedics, weight-loss surgery, women's services, and heart and vascular services, and also offers care at the Duke Rehabilitation Institute and Davis Ambulatory Surgical Center. In fiscal year 2018, Duke Regional Hospital admitted 16,299 patients and had 165,953 outpatient visits in fiscal year 2017.

U.S. News & World Report ranked Duke Regional Hospital as #10 in North Carolina and #4 in the Raleigh-Durham area for 2018-19.

Pharmacy Tech I, Duke Regional Hospital, PRN 

Occupational Summary:

Perform under supervision a variety of technical duties related to preparing and dispensing drugs in accordance with standard procedures and techniques.

Work Performed:

Set up, package, dispense and deliver unit dose medication in accordance with standard procedures and techniques; mix prescribed drugs with intravenous solutions and prefill syringes under supervision of a pharmacist.

Replenish drugs and other pharmaceutical supplies on patient care units; keep records on narcotics and control drug distribution.

File prescriptions, price drugs and prepare and maintain patient profile records. Set up, prepare and package standard bulk formulations as directed.

Stock supplies and assist in taking inventory.

Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required of personnel so classified.

Required Qualifications at this Level

Education/Training: 

Work requires high school or equivalent plus successful completion of a formalized Pharmacy Technician program (i.e., Durham Technical Institute 9 month program), or one of the following equivalents: 1. Completion of one semester of a pharmacy-specific program which normally begins in the third year of study at UNC and Campbell University (note that the initial two years of general college coursework in these programs is not pharmacy-specific and that completion of the initial two years by itself, will not be sufficient for qualification); or 2. Completion of the third year of study in a B.S. curriculum emphasizing chemistry and math; or 3. Completion of the Armed Forces Corps' Pharmacy Technician or Pharmacy Technologist training; or 4. Completion of a technical school or hospital training program with a program content equivalent to Durham Tech's program content; or 5. Two years' experience acquired on the job in a similar hospital setting with at least 3 months experience labeling with a CRT and/or typewriter.

Experience: 

None required beyond that described above.

OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

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