Medicine Reconciliation Technician - ED

DEPARTMENT: PHARMACY FACILITY: Tift Regional Medical Center WORK TYPE: Full Time: 7 on, 7 off SHIFT: Daytime SUMMARY: Medicine Reconciliation Techs record and pass along information about a patient's medicines by interviewing patients in the Emergency Room to develop a list of the patient's current medications. If necessary, they call sources, such as physicians' offices and pharmacies, to gather additional information or verify information. He/she enters medication information into computer systems, which provides the information to the clinical staff. In addition, they partners with on-duty nurses to verify and finalize medication list. RESPONSIBILITIES: * Assists the emergency department staff in collecting and verifying medication lists. * Participates in the training of Pharmacy Technology students and new employees. * Directly interviews patients to collect comprehensive listing of all current medications. * Partners with third parties such as doctors' offices, pharmacies, and other hospitals to verify medications. * Enters all information correctly into computer system. * Effectively partners with clinical staff to verify and finalize medication lists. * Demonstrates self-direction by independently completing common tasks as they are presented such as: repackaging medications, restocking emergency carts, stocking anesthesia kits and EMT boxes and other recurring tasks. * Keeps abreast of pertinent federal, and state regulations and laws and Tift Regional Health System, Inc. ("TRHS") policies as they presently exist and as they change or are modified. * Understands and adheres to: TRHS' compliance standards as they appear in TRHS's Corporate Compliance Policy, Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest Policy; and HIPAA and TRHS policies regarding privacy and security of protected health information. * Demonstrates the ability to perform tasks that meet the age-specific requirements of the persons, patients, vendors, and staff that the employee is charged to interact with as required by the position. * Offers suggestions on ways to improve operations of department and reduce costs. * Attends all mandatory education programs. * Improves self-knowledge through voluntarily attending continuing education/certification classes. * Maintains required competency levels as identified in written exams, skills checklists, skills labs, annual safety and health requirements as well as service excellence education hours requirements. * Cross-trains in order to better assist co-workers and to provide maximum efficiency in the department. * Volunteers/participates on hospital committees, functions, and department projects. * Manages resources effectively. * Reports equipment in need of repair in order to extend life of equipment and removes malfunctioning equipment out of service with timely reporting to the appropriate personnel. * Makes good use of time so as to not create needless overtime. EDUCATION: * High School Diploma or Equivalent CREDENTIALS: * Certified Pharmacy Tech OTHER INFORMATION: One year of hospital experience, preferred. Southwell/Tift Regional Health System, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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