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Kristi Abbey CPhT-Adv, CSPT

Kristi Abbey CPhT-Adv, CSPT

Summary

Motivated, detail-oriented, multitasking, dependable, and accurate Advanced Certified Sterile Pharmacy Technician with over 14 years of diverse pharmacy experiences from small to large chain retail, hospital and clinic-based practice, as well as specialty, nuclear and pharmaceutical manufacturing. Actively pursues opportunities for continuous professional development to progress with resilience refining skills. Demonstrated ability to research, obtain, interpret, review, audit, and process information fast and accurately under pressure to strive for excellence while incorporating the mission, vision, and values promoting discovery and innovation by considering a diverse collection of ideas through teamwork and inclusion that identify areas of opportunity, showing enthusiasm for optimization and improvement while keeping deadlines. Proven capacity to train and supervise as well as provide unbiased evaluation of staff while serving as a team player applying active listening and social perceptiveness taking initiative in leading team through managing tasks and workload to help assist, accompany, guide, and develop team members while providing safe, effective, efficient, value-added medication therapy with positive impact even in new, complex, or unfamiliar situations or settings through thinking critically while demonstrating patience and empathy.

Work History

Advanced Certified Sterile Pharmacy Technician

O'Brien Pharmacy
08.2023 - 10.2024
  • Primarily sterile with some non-sterile compounding (packaging/dispensing)
  • Product sterility sampling, testing, environmental sampling, cleaning, and documentation per USP guidelines using Pestle
  • Office and patient specific order data entry and processing using PK
  • Answering phones, tracking orders, order resolutions, labeling & packaging

Nuclear Pharmacy Technician

SOFIE
01.2023 - 08.2023
  • Radiation Safety, DOT, IATA, & GMP trained
  • Taking new radioactive isotope prescription orders, courier route planning, & isotope manufacturing run timing/scheduling
  • Isotope manufacturing preparation, dispensing, packaging and documenting as well as ordering and receiving
  • Cleaning and documentation per USP 797, 800, & 825

Advanced Certified Pharmacy Technician

The University of Kansas Health System
02.2021 - 04.2023
  • Sterile & Hazardous Compounding including investigational drugs, training and floating to staff critical shifts & vaccine clinics, and using Pharmacy Keeper, Epic, Omnicell

Supervising Lead Sterile Compounding CPhT

Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital
03.2015 - 02.2022
  • Lean SIx Sigma Yellow Belt & USP 797 technician expert, compliance coordinator, and trainer
  • Developed & taught facility’s first course of Technician Lecture Series recognized by ACPE as CE
  • Interdisciplinary Sterile Compounding Committee Member: developed SOPs to comply with regulations
  • Clinical Team Training Member with various projects including nursing, EVS, and other hospital areas
  • Infection Control Committee pharmacy representative alternate
  • Used equipment such as Pyxis, Kirby, ScriptPro, aesynt robot/PACMED/over wrapper/carousels)
  • Truman VA Employee Recognition & Awards: Employee of The Month – November 2018, Customer Service “Star” Award & Spotlight Award – multiple (both), Patient Safety "Good Catch" Award, Special Contribution Award with Time Off Award

Certified Pharmacy Technician

Pinnacle Regional Hospital
11.2018 - 01.2020
  • MHA Lean Six Sigma Green Belt project with CNO to improve nursing barcode scanning rate: MediTech drug database building/management
  • Inventory Management & Procurement, data entry & billing, auditing

Certified Pharmacy Technician

SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital
06.2013 - 01.2018
  • IV compounding and supervising training (sterile & hazardous chemo), Pyxis, packaging, crash cart management, medication reconciliation
  • Medication Procurement: ordering & receiving including specialty medications confirming benefits and eligibility
  • Assisted agency pharmacists staffing alone with order entry to ensure order read correctly to prevent med error

Senior Certified Pharmacy Technician

Walgreens Retail Drug Chain
10.2010 - 11.2012
  • Supervise new-hire training, procurement, billing, staffing, and other tasks as assigned by the PIC
  • Answer phones, give transfer scripts, perform all aspects of prescription data entry including third party billing, cashier
  • Follow through with prescription clarifications, prior authorizations, and third-party rejections, and retro bill claims
  • Fill prescriptions, reconstitute suspensions, compound, order medications, restock inventory, train new-hires, cashier
  • Order medications, restock inventory and answer questions customers may have concerning their co-pays and coverage

Certified Pharmacy Technician

Bing's Retail Grocer Pharmacy
08.2012 - 08.2012
  • Temporary PRN relief technician to answer phones, complete data entry, send faxes, and cashier

Pharmacy Technician

Hy-Vee
03.2010 - 10.2010
  • Performed all aspects of data entry, inventoried, counted out and filled medication orders, cashiered

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Education

Skills Certificate & Professional Certificate - Pharmacy Technology

SFCC

92.5 hours toward Bachelor of Science & Missouri Reverse Transfer AA: Chemistry as well as AAS: Health Care Specialist-Pharmacy Technician

Skills

Accuracy

Adaptability

Compounding: non-sterile, haz, & sterile

Data Entry

Efficiency

Integrity

Multitasking

Reliability

Certification

  • CPhT-Adv (Advanced Certified Pharmacy Technician) – PTCB License 5801-0701-0264-748 valid through February 28, 2026
  • Medication Therapy Management Certificate – issued 04/22/2022

- Medication Therapy Management Trained and Nationally Certified since April 23, 2016

- Diabetes Medication Therapy Management Trained & Nationally Certified since April 8, 2019

  • Medication History Certificate – issued 04/18/2022
  • Technician Product Verification Certificate – issued 03/06/2022
  • Billing and Reimbursement Certificate – issued 02/28/2022
  • Controlled Substances Diversion Prevention Certificate – issued 04/18/2022

- Opioid Addiction and Recovery Trained and Nationally Certified since April 8, 2019

  • Hazardous Drug Management Certificate – issued 02/28/2022
  • CSPT (Compounded Sterile Preparation Technician) Cert. – PTCB License 30266767 valid through February 28, 2025
  • Registered Kansas Pharmacy Technician – License 14-113824 valid through October 31, 2025
  • Registered Missouri Pharmacy Technician – License 2006032570 valid through May 31, 2025
  • Nuclear Pharmacy Technician Certificate – issued by NEO Nuclear Education Online 06/02/2023
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt – since 2019Missouri: Registered Pharmacy Technician October 2006





Timeline

Advanced Certified Sterile Pharmacy Technician - O'Brien Pharmacy
08.2023 - 10.2024
Nuclear Pharmacy Technician - SOFIE
01.2023 - 08.2023
Advanced Certified Pharmacy Technician - The University of Kansas Health System
02.2021 - 04.2023
Certified Pharmacy Technician - Pinnacle Regional Hospital
11.2018 - 01.2020
Supervising Lead Sterile Compounding CPhT - Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital
03.2015 - 02.2022
Certified Pharmacy Technician - SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital
06.2013 - 01.2018
Certified Pharmacy Technician - Bing's Retail Grocer Pharmacy
08.2012 - 08.2012
Senior Certified Pharmacy Technician - Walgreens Retail Drug Chain
10.2010 - 11.2012
Pharmacy Technician - Hy-Vee
03.2010 - 10.2010
SFCC - Skills Certificate & Professional Certificate, Pharmacy Technology
Kristi Abbey CPhT-Adv, CSPT