Travel Hospital Pharmacist

Position: Travel Hospital Pharmacist - $3,240 per week
Certification Details

BLS Idaho Pharmacy license Job Details

Responsible for supervising and providing pharmaceutical care in the Department of Pharmacy. Must demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide medication appropriate to the age of patients served. Provide medication with consideration of developmental status. Dispense and provide professional supervision of inpatient and outpatient medications in accordance with legal requirements and hospital policy. Screen and prioritize orders, dispense stat, now, and initial doses as needed.

Check Pyxis loads and refills; confirm for delivery. Check IV admixture products; confirm for delivery. Prepare and/or check chemotherapy admixtures; confirm for delivery. Refill and check code carts. Assist with Medication Reconciliation. Document items needed to be purchased in want book. Prepare and dispense employee prescriptions when needed. Compound medications as required. Provide total parenteral nutritional services offered by Pharmacy (enter orders and changes, prepare and/or check, confirm for delivery).

Daily documentation of intervention activities and process samples. Provide pharmaceutical care by identifying potential and actual drug-related problems, resolving actual drug-related problems, and preventing potential drug-related problems in a cost effective manner. Review medication orders for appropriateness of therapy, drug interactions, allergies, contraindications, duplication of therapy. Communicate with physicians concerning clarification of orders or therapeutic alternates. Act as drug information source for physicians, nurses, patients, or other personnel.

Demonstrate appropriate basic clinical skill competency based on practice setting, including CrCl calculation, renal dosing, pain management, home health/hospice patient evaluation, initial dosing of gentamicin/vancomycin with level scheduling, identifying, monitoring, reporting adverse drug events, and daily documentation of clinical activities.

Job Requirements

Must have 2 years recent experience as a Pharmacist in a hospital setting. Must have BLS certification through the American Heart Association. Must have Idaho Pharmacy license. Schedule Information

Shifts will be (5) 8-hour shifts. One weekend every 5th or so. Rotating call. Additional Details

Years of experience in job's specialty: 2 years