Katherine Barnett
Pembroke Pines
Summary
Detail-oriented Pharmacy Technician specializing in intravenous admixture preparation and Epic charting. Focused on medication safety and quality assurance to enhance patient care. Trained new employees and collaborated with healthcare teams to ensure efficient operations and customer service. Improved inventory management processes to optimize resource utilization.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Pharmacy Tech 111
Memorial Cancer Institute
01.2024 - Current
- IV Room - Preparing IV For Chemo Patients
- Deliver Medication to Nurses
- Restocked medications on shelves, ensuring uninterrupted patient care supply.
- Trained new employees on standard operating procedures, enhancing team compliance and efficiency.
Pharmacy Technician II
Memorial West Hospital
01.2022 - 01.2024
- IV Room - prepare IV medication for patients in a sterile Environment
- Technicians select orders from the queue and gather all necessary supplies for Medication preparation.
- Scanned barcodes of medications to verify correct supplies for preparation.
- Followed prompts on queue; the pharmacist reviewed compounding images and verified medication.
- Technician also orders dilutions and prepares medication for NICU Patients.
- Stock doses are made for various medication such as sodium bicarbonate and Vancomycin.
- We do daily and monthly cleaning; restock IV medication that is stored in IV Room.
- Led team communication via Epic to address missing medications, coordinating with other technicians to ensure timely dispensing.
- Liaison with pharmacists and nurses regarding medication.
- Narcotics: replenish Narcotic medication and deliver narcotic medication
- Delivering medication: to the pyxis or to nurses; prepack medication and prepare tray safe for emergency medications.
- Implemented Lean Six Sigma process to streamline workflow and improve efficiency.
Pharmacy Technician I
CVS
09.2021 - 05.2022
- Accurately prepare and distribute patients’ medications
- Assisted customers in picking up medications, ensuring accuracy and compliance with prescription guidelines.
- Assisted customers in dropping off prescriptions and picking up medications.
- Work directly with customers to obtain their medical history and accurately enter information into the computer system
- Collected and documented new prescriptions, maintaining accurate records to support pharmacy operations.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
University of The West Indies
Kingston, Jamaica01-2009
Master of Science - Business Administration - Human Resources
Centurion International University
Pembroke Pines, FLSkills
- Registered Pharmacy Technician
- Data Entry
- Patient support
- IV admixture
- Dosage preparation
- Aseptic techniques
- Supply restocking
- Prescription filling
- Receiving incoming supplies
- Medication labels
- HIPAA
- Labeling procedures
- IV preparation
- Medication dispensing
- Inventory management
- Medication history
- Quality control
- Epic charting
- Medication safety
- Compounding skills
Certification
- MHS Lean Yellow Belt, 08/01/23
- Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPHT), Pharmacy Technician Certification Board, 05/01/23
- Registered Pharmacy Technician License, State of Florida Department of Health, 01/01/22
Qualification Highlights
- Registered Pharmacy Technician
- Data Entry
- Emergency Dispatcher
- Call Taker
- Customer Service
- Psychology
- Counseling
- Preparation of Admixtures
Timeline
Pharmacy Tech 111
Memorial Cancer Institute
01.2024 - Current
Pharmacy Technician II
Memorial West Hospital
01.2022 - 01.2024
Pharmacy Technician I
CVS
09.2021 - 05.2022
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
University of The West Indies
Master of Science - Business Administration - Human Resources
Centurion International University