Pharmacist, Healthcare

Overview Embark on a rewarding career with Valley Baptist - Harlingen hospital. If you are a compassionate healthcare professional eager to contribute to patient care, this is your opportunity where your skills make a difference every day. Join us in delivering exceptional healthcare with a personal touch.

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
• Generous paid time off
• Career development and continuing education opportunities
• Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
• Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program
• Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance

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Eligibility for benefits may vary by location and is determined by employment status.

Job Summary This position may qualify for a sign‑on bonus. Provide pharmaceutical care services to the patients including, but not limited to oversight, monitoring, preparation, dispensing and proper documentation of patient medication therapy, as well as providing drug information and overseeing dispensing systems. Additionally, ensure compliance with Federal, State, and local laws and regulations and may advise physicians on medication utilization.

• Review and monitor patient medication therapy and orders written for safety and efficacy, considering specific patient conditions and health status; advise the patient care team and document interventions.
• Verify orders and perform medication profile reviews, checking for duplications, drug‑drug and drug‑food interactions, allergies, drug appropriateness, dosing, and frequency.
• Prepare, label, and dispense medications for patients in accordance with physicians' prescriptions; ensure compliance with Federal, State, and local laws and regulations pertaining to dispensing.
• Check high‑risk IVs, renal dose‑adjusting medications, IV to PO conversions; initiate, modify, or discontinue therapy and mediate black‑box warning interventions.
• Ensure appropriate medications are available, properly procured, prepared, stored, and maintained.
• Supervise the preparation, maintenance, and dispensing process of drugs and supplies, including supervising technical personnel.
• Maintain relationships with medical and nursing staff; provide timely information on pharmaceutical supplies, drug usage, compatibility, state and federal regulations regarding drug controls, and Joint Commission standards.
• Provide collaborative practice management per facility‑approved protocols for anticoagulation, parenteral nutrition, vancomycin, and aminoglycoside consults.
• Assist with medication reconciliation and clarification of unsafe and unclear drug therapy orders; provide patient education on medication usage.
• Participate in the education and training of healthcare professionals (physicians, nurses, pharmacy technicians, and students) on medication use.
• Demonstrate regulatory compliance by timely completion of nursing unit inspections as needed.
• Maintain professional competence with the pharmacy department and state licensing requirements via staff development, independent study, and professional activities.

• Education:
  
  Pharm.
  
  D. or BS in Pharmacy.
• Experience:
  
  Preferred hospital experience.
• Certifications
  
  Required:
  
  Pharmacy license; AHA BLS, ACLS, PALS required if direct patient care responsibilities.
• Preferred
  
  Certifications:
  
  Board Certification in Pharmacotherapy (BCPS), CGP, etc.