Pharmacist - Infusion Center

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We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Pharmacist - Infusion Center. In this role, the successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of medication therapy, including review of all new medication orders and reconciliation of home medications.

• Maintain active NYS Pharmacist license in good standing.
• Responsible for triaging work appropriately to minimize order turn-around time and treatment delays.
• Perform medication reconciliation at point of order verification.
• Accurately verifies and dispenses medication orders, reviewing medications prepared for dispensing for accuracy and escalating and correcting any errors.
• Verifies Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) orders and makes necessary corrections in accordance with hospital policy and procedure and NYS and federal regulations.
• Enters medication orders accurately from written orders and discontinues medications as applicable per hospital policy.
• Use Electronic Health Record (EHR) tools and Clinical Decision Support (CDS) to screen for potential errors that may lead to adverse drug events and elevate appropriately.
• Communicates to the appropriate medical, nursing and pharmacy teams regarding issues affecting patient care including but not limited to medication and dose verification, drug interactions, potential ADEs etc.
• Documents interventions, notes, and allergies properly in EHR using appropriate applications.
• Maintains accurate patient profiles including but not limited to appropriate updates to allergy information and other patient factors.
• Responsible for ensuring that controlled substances are handled in accordance with federal, state and local regulations, and hospital policies and procedures.
• Ensures compliance with policies and procedures related to working in the sterile and non-sterile preparation areas and special handling requirements of sterile biohazardous products in accordance with USP chapters 795/797/800.
• Maintains proper records and logs to satisfy regulatory requirements including temperature monitoring, sterile and non-sterile compounding, team member competencies etc.
• Assists with staff training and development as assigned.
• Inventory management including but not limited to placing orders with designated distributor, managing Automated Dispensing Cabinet (ADC) and Anesthesia Workstation (AWS) par levels and inventory, managing supply inventory.
• Other duties as assigned.

• To qualify you must have a Bachelors degree in pharmacy
• Current New York State Pharmacy License
• Excellent communication (both oral and written), organizational, detail oriented, problem solving, and record keeping skills Basic computer skills
• Familiarity of USP 797 and 800 guidelines
• 1-3 years Pharmacist Experience.

Pharmacist License-NYS

• Post Doctoral Pharm
  
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• ADC management experience.
• 1-3 years Hospital/Infusion Experience.

Qualified candidates must be able to effectively…