Technician/Technologist Profession Page

WHAT WE DO...

- Inventory Coordinator on the Wholesaler Level

- Drug Repackaging (e.g. bulk tablets to unit dose, large volume liquids to unit dose cups)

- Software Support Specialist (e.g. maintain pharmacy department computer systems)

- I.V. and Hyperal (TPN) Manufacturing (e.g. patient intravenous therapy)

- Purchasing and Inventory Control (e.g. purchase drugs and other materials needed daily to run the pharmacy)

- Environmental Pharmacy (waste management)

- Clinical Technicians

- O.R. Anesthesia Inventory Technician (e.g. maintain anesthesia trays with various drugs for each operating room)

- Robotic Technicians (e.g. maintain pharmacy dispensing robot)

- Automation and Technology Specialist

- Narcotic Control - (e.g. Pyxis Machines, Med-Station)

- Computer Data Entry (e.g. order entry, billing, automation process)

- Tech Check Tech (T-C-T) - (e.g. Patient Cassette Filling, etc., limited practice in very few states as each state is governed by their own state pharmacy board)

- Mail Order Pharmacy Technicians (filling machines, manual scripts, etc.)

- Chair Person on State Pharmacy Board, Technician Section

- Public Service (e.g. Poison Prevention talks to children)

- Program Coordinator for Indigent Outpatient Services

WHERE WE WORK...

- Hospitals (e.g. Ill patients, surgical services patients, rehabilitation from injuries, drug dependency, etc.)

- Military Sector (all branches of service)

- Nursing Homes (e.g. people usually unable to care for themselves)

- Retail Pharmacies (e.g. provide medications to the public)

- Correctional Facilities (e.g. youth detention centers, prison, jails, etc.)

- Mail Order Pharmacies (e.g. prescriptions mailed to your door)

- Nuclear Medicine Pharmacies (e.g. radioactive pharmaceuticals)

- Health Maintenance Organizations (H.M.O.) (e.g. help govern formulary services, provide prescription service, etc.)

- Pharmaceutical Wholesalers

- Intermediate Care Residential Mental Health Facility Home Technicians

- Indian Health Services

- Family Planning Centers

PROFESSIONS WE HAVE MOVED ONTO AS WORK, HOBBY, AND/OR FULL TIME CAREERS...

- Technicians Have Become Pharmacists.

- Technicians Have Written Educational Textbooks.

- Technicians Have Co-Written Educational Textbooks.

- Technicians Have Become Drug Company Representatives.

- Technicians Have Become Technician/Technologist Educators.

- Technicians Have Become Pharmacy Reimbursement Specialists.