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Pharmacy Technician Health System

Location:
Gardner, KS
Posted:
January 10, 2024

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GINA M. BOOM

***** *. ***** **** *******, KS ****0 · 913-***-****

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EXPERIENCE

July 2022-Present

PHARMACY INFORMATICS ANALYST – ONCOLOGY SUPPORT, THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM

• Building treatment and therapy plans for oncology patients and non-oncology infusion patients

• Support our Home Infusion department

• Support operations when requests are made to make changes to the system and test requests to ensure the request does not affect functionality in other areas July 2022 – Present

PHARMACY TECHNICIAN, OLATHE MEDICAL CENTER

• Medication RX Station technician: Fill and troubleshoot Rx Stations (Cerner). Train new employees on these processes

• I.V. room technician: Aseptically compound hazardous and non-hazardous sterile compounds, train new employees on aseptic technique and how to prioritize stat orders.

• Medication Reconciliation technician: Interview patients to gain accurate medication history and research medication history when patients were unsure by calling families and pharmacies and have an understanding when I should escalate potential issues to the pharmacist. December 2019-July 2022

PHARMACY INFORMATICS ANALYST – AMBULATORY SUPPORT, THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM

• Quarterly Epic application upgrade that includes, decisions on whether to take the released functionality, communication with our operations team when decisions are needed, upgrade build, testing and education creation and rollout

• Monthly FDB post load maintenance

• Quarterly Healthfinch extract

• Support operations when requests are made to make changes to the system 2017-December 2019

PHARMACY TECHNICIAN SUPERVISOR, THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM CANCER CENTER

• Review patient treatment schedules daily and appropriately schedule technician staff to cover 7 locations

• Collaborate with investigational pharmacists to develop workflows which allow for adherence of study protocols while also ensuring proper clean room practices

• Handle all Human Resource issues

• New employee recruiting and training

• Employee reviews and corrective action

• Staff at all locations to cover sick calls, vacations and high treatment volume

• Monthly dose stats for finance

• Waste billing correction

• On call every 3 weeks

• Develop efficient workflows that cater to patient needs

• Train new employees

• Work on the retail side at infusion locations

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• De-escalate patient frustrations due to long wait times or drug shortage 2011-2017

PHARMACY TECHNICIAN COORDINATOR, THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM CANCER CENTER

• Develop efficient workflows that cater to patient needs

• Participate in interviews

• Communicate with nursing to collaborate patient care

• Develop system for ordering low use/high-cost medications in order to maintain a fiscally intelligent inventory

• Monitor distribution center inventory to mitigate potential backorders. In the event of shortages, oversee the redistribution of product between cancer centers and/or contact appropriate parties to adjust doses within appropriate range to conserve waste.

• Supply ordering

• Participate in reviews and corrective actions

• De-escalate patient frustrations due to long wait times or drug shortage

• During initial Omnicell integration, was responsible for all cancer care build, rollout and training

• Work on retail side at infusion locations

2001-2019 (2001-2011 FULL TIME: 2011-PRESENT PRN)

PHARMACY TECHNICIAN, THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM

• Omnicell technician: Fill and troubleshoot Pyxis, Accudose and Omnicell machines. Train new employees on these processes

• I.V. room technician: Aseptically compound hazardous and non-hazardous sterile compounds, reorganize clean rooms to promote better workflow and train new employees on aseptic technique and how to prioritize stat orders.

• Operating room technician: Train new employees, drug ordering, sterile I.V. compounding for cases and billing

• Command Center technician, also known as the air traffic controller of the pharmacy: Pulling narcotic doses from the narcotic vault and accurately keeping record of transactions, answer incoming phone calls from nurses, medical residents and doctors and knowing how to troubleshoot their issues or when to escalate to a pharmacist for clinical needs, ensuring stat orders are prioritized, tubing medications and pulling non-compounded medications for patients among several other duties and training new technicians in this area

• Medication Reconciliation technician: Interview patients to gain accurate medication history and research medication history when patients were unsure by calling families and pharmacies 1998-2001

OUTPATIENT PHARMACY TECHNICIAN, OVERLAND PARK REGIONAL HOSPITAL

• Filling patient prescriptions

• Drug ordering

• Entering prescriptions into system for filling

• Taking phone orders from physicians

• Placing drug orders

• Calling insurance companies when prescriptions would not successfully adjudicate SPECIALIZED TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS

• WAM super user; outpatient pharmacy software system – Specialized training

• Omnicell super user – Specialized training

• Critical Point sterile compounding boot camp – Specialized training

• Epic Willow Ambulatory; outpatient pharmacy software – Certified

• Epic Willow Inpatient; inpatient pharmacy software – Certified

• Epic Beacon; oncology pharmacy software - Certified 3

• Epic Willow Ambulatory Inventory; outpatient pharmacy software for inventory tracking and ordering – Certified

• Cerner training

• CareTend Home Infusion module

AWARDS

• Pharmacy Enterprise Clinical Excellence award-2019 References available upon request



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