What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medicine Reconciliation Technician - ED position at Southwell, Inc.?
DEPARTMENT: PHARMACY
F ACILITY: Tift Regional Medical Center
WORK TYPE: Full Time: 7 on, 7 off
S HIFT: 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.