Surgical & Compliance Pharmacy Technician - Lauritzen Outpatient Center

Shift:

Surgical & Compliance Pharmacy Technician - Lauritzen Outpatient Center

Join our pharmacy team in this unique hybrid position that blends the precision of surgical pharmacy work with the detail-oriented focus of compliance activities. You'll spend half your time supporting our surgical operations in the Lauritzen Outpatient Center, ensuring timely and accurate medication preparation and delivery, and the other half dedicated to maintaining compliance standards that keep our patients safe and our pharmacy running efficiently.

This role is ideal for a technician who thrives in a structured, fast-paced environment and enjoys both hands-on compounding and data-driven compliance work. You'll collaborate with nurses, pharmacists, and other health professionals, ensuring accurate medication handling, safe sterile compounding practices, and seamless patient care.

Shift:

• Full Time

• First Shift

• Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

• Rotating weekends, every third Sunday

Why Work at Nebraska Medicine?

• Together. Extraordinary. Join a team that values your skills, delivering exceptional care through collaboration.

• Leading Health Network: Work with the region's top academic health network, partnering with UNMC to transform lives through education, research, and patient care.

• Dignity and Respect: We value all backgrounds and experiences, reflecting the communities we serve.

• Educational Support: Enjoy up to $5,000/year in tuition assistance, a 35% discount at Clarkson College, and career advancement opportunities with covered educational costs.

Be part of something extraordinary at Nebraska Medicine!

Duties: Pharmacy Technician

Responsible for medication management for the pharmacy, nursing units and operating rooms including but not limited to ordering, receiving, sorting, distributing medications. Troubleshoot equipment issues and provide excellent customer service and patient care in accordance with assigned duties. Create and utilize medication usage reports to analyze data for effective inventory control. Manage incoming telephone calls from inpatient units, and triage calls appropriately utilizing excellent customer service skills. Receive orders, select proper drug, and prepare dosage form and strength. Practice sterile compounding for immediate usage as well as non-sterile compounding of oral liquids and topicals. Calculate patient's IV infusion due times, reorder as needed and collaborate with providers, physicians, and pharmacists recommending medication concentrations.

Required Qualifications: Pharmacy Technician

* Minimum of 18 years of age required.
* High school education or equivalent required.
* Licensed Nebraska pharmacy intern or registered as a pharmacy technician with the State of Nebraska Board of Pharmacy required.
* If registered as a Pharmacy Technician, certification within twelve months of registration date required.

Preferred Qualifications: Pharmacy Technician

* Prior pharmacy technician or hospital setting experience preferred.
* Medical terminology and knowledge of top 200 medications prescribed preferred.
* Proficient knowledge of computers, automated dispensing cabinets (Omnicell), calculators, electronic medical record (EPIC), various computerized and mechanical devices necessary for product preparation and dispensing (e.g., scales, strip packager, magnetic stirrer, etc.) preferred.
* Experience with non-sterile compounding preferred.
* Experience with phones, pagers, fax machines, hand held scanners, etc. preferred.