Travel Hospital Pharmacist

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• Years of experience in job's specialty: 2 years

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