Clinical staff pharmacist vs accredited pharmacist technician

Differences between clinical staff pharmacist and accredited pharmacist technician duties and responsibilities

Clinical staff pharmacist example responsibilities.

• Dose and manage all Vancomycin and Aminoglycoside antibiotics throughout the entire hospital including overseeing, evaluating, and ordering antibiotic labs.
• Determine appropriateness of medications and monitor drug-drug interactions, drug-disease interactions, and allergies.
• Analyze every drug order for potential drug-relate medical problems and implementing corrective action to ensure that patients receive optimal drug therapy.
• Verify daily proficiency reports generate by the PYXIS dispensing system.
• Serve as the preceptor for PharmD students in a clinical in-hospital pharmacy rotation.
• Check against drug interactions, allergies, contraindications, and monitor for core measure compliance.
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Accredited pharmacist technician example responsibilities.

• Perform diabetes interviews along with physician collaboration agreement to manage therapy and optimal goals.
• Prepare and dispense aseptic medications which include but not limit to antibiotics, chemotherapy, pediatric/NICU preparations and TPN preparation.
• Maintain patient-specific chemotherapy administration records.
• Initiate and operate successful community-base immunization programs.
• Refine and implement computer program to generate custom resuscitation medications and infusions worksheets, improving the dosing accuracy in critical situations.