Pharmacy Technician - Oncology - Trillium Health Partners – Credit Valley Hospital & Queensway Healthcare
(2023-12)
- Responsible for ordering medications, receiving, record keeping and maintaining inventory for specialty programs.
- Worked with NAPRA specialists to ensure compliance with NAPRA standards and helped to improve processes resulting in productivity efficiency.
- Responsible for barcoding and maintaining physical inventory in oncology department with 100% accuracy.
- Worked collaboratively with various departments throughout hospitals.
- Supported multi-site locations by working at Credit Valley and Queensway Health Centre.
- Performed compounding duties for oncology
Cleanroom Technician - Baxter CIVA Pharmacy
(2020-01 - 2023-12)
- Picked raw materials for clean-room compounding and performing in-process checks to ensure 100% accuracy.
- Maintained communication with CIVA technicians for optimum production flow.
- Performed product sanitization for all items entering the clean rooms with 100% accuracy.
- Performed visual inspection and labelling of CIVA batch units according to requirements.
- Regularly communicated with Pharmacists to ensure on-time delivery.
- Assembled boxes and packaged finished products for dispatch.
- Loaded and transferred products between pharmacy areas.
- Accepted additional responsibilities as a training coach to train CIVA pharmacy assistants (PA) on Baxter SOP's which increased the number of trained PA's across multiple areas.
Pharmacy Assistant/Clinical Assistant - Wellmedica Medical Center
(2018-02 - 2019-12)
- Assisted physicians in performing clinical functions such as, triage, phlebotomy, creating patient profiles, scheduling appointments and follow-up procedures.
- Assisted in preparing non-sterile compounding including creams and ointments
- Received prescriptions and communicated required medications to pharmacist.
- Monitored medication stock and communicated with pharmacist to ensure optimum levels of inventory.
- Communicated with all customers and staff in a pleasant and professional manner improving customer retention.
- Advised customers on the selection of medication brands medical equipment or healthcare supplies improving customer engagement.
- Maintained and updated records such as pharmacy files, patient profiles charge system files, poison or controlled drug registries.
Pharmacy Technician Hospital Placement - William Osler Health Center, Brampton Civic Hospital - Brampton
(2019-04 - 2019-04)
- Worked with hospital staff to dispense and distribute medications to patients, ward stock and narcotics.
- Assisted in preparing non-sterile and sterile compounding including TPN, CIVA and chemotherapy preparation.
- Performed stocking and inventory control regularly.
- Organized shelves for prescription and OTCs and performed regular checks for expiry dates.
Pharmacy Technician Laboratory Assistant - Sheridan College
(2018-01 - 2019-04)
Part-time position
- Performed experiments with and mentored students while maintaining a safe environment mitigating the risk accidents.
- Securing the lab by cleaning up any spills, washing the equipment and glassware, such as conical flasks, pipettes and beakers used by students.
- Managed the inventories by maintaining and organizing product in appropriate shelves resulting in students making efficient use of lab time.
- Assisted in managing the Hospital and Retail Pharmacy Labs to help alleviate workload.
Pharmacy Assistant (Co-op) - Guardian Pharmacy
(2017-11 - 2018-01)
- Assisted pharmacist with drug preparation and stock inventory resulting in improved turnaround time for medication to customer.
- Labeled all products appropriately including cautionary and auxiliary labels to ensure a safe work environment.
