Pharmacy Technician
Your pharmacist is the most important person of your health care team post surgery. Why? Because even though the doctor can diagnose you, the surgeon can slice you and the nurse can nurture you, but the thing that is really going to take away the pain post surgery is tiny and be taken every 4 hours with water: your pain meds. Not a smile for Nurse Jennifer as she props up your pillow, not the precise cut of the fifteen blade, it’s the pills people. The perfect stepping-stone position on your way to becoming a pharmacist is a pharmacist technician. As a pharmacist technician you act as the right hand of the pharmacist. A career in the pharmacy field gets a jumpstart working as a pharmacist technician. It requires minimal training and is the perfect way to get your foot in the door in the field.
What does a Pharmacist Technician Do?
- Receive and verify perscriptions both manually and electronically.
- Retrieve, count, poor, weigh, measure and mix the medication.
- Establish and maintain patient records, prepare insurance forms.
- Stock and take inventory of medications within pharmacy.