TAMIKA ROSS
Indianapolis
Summary
Patient-oriented Pharmacy Technician with extensive experience in medication preparation, filling, and labeling. Proficient in processing prescriptions and managing pharmacy inventory efficiently. Expertise in patient interaction, providing timely answers to inquiries and updates on prescription status.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
Work History
Content Editing Coordinator
Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.
01.2010 - Current
- Maintains documentation for historical reference and evidence of editorial decisions.
- Applies editorial policies and critical thinking throughout content creation.
- Maintains professional relationship within the company and with outside business contacts such as customers.
- Performs a variety of duties with interruptions and/or distractions.
- Displays flexibility, patience, organization, and professionalism.
- Adapts to frequent changes in workload and adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate.
- Obtains pricing and clinical information from drug manufacturers.
Retail Pharmacy Technician
Kroger Food Store
01.2010 - 06.2010
- Preparation of medications for patients.
- Receiving and verifying the prescriptions.
- Pricing and filling of prescription.
- Stocking and pricing of medications in inventory.
- Maintaining pharmacy's (and its patients' employees') safety by adhering to infection-control procedures, policies and regulations.
Pharmacy Technician-Data Analyst
Northbay Healthcare Corporation
12.2004 - 12.2009
- Involved in the preparation of a variety of intravenous admixtures (TPN's, pain management injectables) and other sterile pediatric products.
- Regularly inspected refrigerators in nursing units for recyclable IV's and medications, credited and documented expired IV's in the waste log.
- Generated medication labels and necessary reports for refilling medication carts, restocking Pyxis MedStation units and other medications below par level.
- Resolved medication discrepancies using proper documentation in a timely manner.
- Compounded oral solutions, ointments, creams, and packaged bulk medications into appropriate unit doses.
- Answered telephones, filled first dose and stat medications, filled medication carts deliver them to nursing stations.
Fitness Specialist
United States Department of the Air Force
02.1994 - 06.1997
- Manage or oversee fitness or recreation facilities, ensuring safe and clean facilities and equipment.
- Perform inventory control (posting/inventorying).
- Prepared daily cashier reports and cash receipt vouchers.
- Mentoring and challenging fellow Airmen.
- Develop fitness or wellness classes, such as yoga, aerobics, strength training, or aquatics, ensuring a diversity of class offerings.
- Kept records of customer interactions and transactions, recording details of inquiries, complaints, and comments, as well as actions.
- Prepare transportation manifest /billing documentation.
- Maintained $400K of fitness equipment and supplies.
- Staying consistent in obedience training, maintaining dog records, and properly handling, securing, and storing drug and explosive training aids.
- Coordinated nine intramural sport leagues and extramural tournaments.
- Completed all required documents and palletized 104,000 pounds of food rations for Air Base in Pakistan.
- Installed and removed aircraft installed Aircrew Flight Equipment.
- Evaluate work orders for fabrication of authorized items.
- Worked with small and large groups to help improve clients' fitness levels or to rehabilitate injuries.
- Created fitness programs for injured active duty members while on profiles.
- Use the information to provide effective fitness programs.
- Collecting data and entering data.
- Recruited 86 volunteers to produce six different sports intramural leagues and event planning for logistical support for two Base Marathons, American/European Racquetball Association racquetball tournaments.
- Teach fitness classes to improve strength, flexibility, cardiovascular conditioning, or general fitness to individuals failing to meet standards.
- Chosen as Airman of the quarter for 81st Services Squadron for January - March.
Education
Vocational Pharmacy Technician Training - Pharmacy Technician
Trinity College
Fairfield, CA03-2003
Skills
- Content management and creation
- Editorial policy application
- Documentation maintenance
- Data analysis
- Customer relationship management
- Medication preparation and verification
- Pharmacy systems proficiency
- Medication inventory control
- Attention to detail
- Effective communication
- Problem solving
- Time management
- Role flexibility
- Team collaboration
- Aseptic techniques
- Automated medication dispensing
- Order verification
- Secure medication storage
- Prescription labeling and processing
- FDA compliance and guidelines
- Stock management
- Pharmacology knowledge
- Prescription filling and dispensing
- Patient confidentiality practices
- Drug safety awareness and interaction knowledge
- Record preparation and management
- Intravenous admixture preparation
Timeline
Content Editing Coordinator
Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.
01.2010 - Current
Retail Pharmacy Technician
Kroger Food Store
01.2010 - 06.2010
Pharmacy Technician-Data Analyst
Northbay Healthcare Corporation
12.2004 - 12.2009
Fitness Specialist
United States Department of the Air Force
02.1994 - 06.1997
Vocational Pharmacy Technician Training - Pharmacy Technician
Trinity College