Raheela N

Conscientious, self-motivated Registered Pharmacy Technician with excellent medicinal preparatory and data entry skills. Detail-oriented and focused on accuracy and efficiency to ensure patient safety when filling prescriptions. Self-starter with extensive knowledge of triage procedures.

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.

Pharmacy Technician - Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning (2019)

Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery - Medicine - Sindh Medical College (2003)