Pharmacy - Pharmacist

Profession: Pharmacy

Specialty: Pharmacy

Duration: 10

Shift: Day Shift - 8x5's

Hours per Shift: 8

Experience:

• Graduate of a school of pharmacy is required.
• Bachelor's degree is preferred.
• Two years of technical experience is preferred.
• Two years' experience as a clinical pharmacist specializing in a regulatory area is preferred.
• One year's hospital pharmacy experience is preferred.

License:

• Pharmacist license in the state of practice is required.
• All licensures and certifications needed to fulfill the duties required of a pharmacist at the state level are required.

Certifications: None specified

Must-Have:

• Strong technical and organizational skills.
• Critical thinking abilities.

Description:

Compounds, prepares, mixes, manufactures, and dispenses medicines using a high level of technical and organizational skills.

Uses critical thinking abilities.

Oversees the proper handling, usage, and storage of drugs in the pharmacy.

Maintains standards set by the department and translates policies and procedures into daily operation and clinical activities.

Supervises and trains assigned technical personnel and assumes responsibility for technical support activities within the pharmacy department.

Processes, enters, verifies, and sends medication orders within the institution in a timely manner that complies with department and hospital policies, Joint Commission, and other regulatory guidelines.

Ensures that medication therapy is efficacious, safe, convenient, and cost-effective.

Establishes the best therapeutic outcomes.

Assures that medication prescribing is optimal with respect to indication, dose, route, frequency, and history of allergy, and does not duplicate or interact with the effects of other drugs.

Conducts and manages daily reports on medication utilization based upon daily rounds to identify, catalogue, and subsequently analyze areas in which medication improvement is needed.

Performs quality assurance procedures in related work areas.

Participates in all pharmacy-related tasks and programs as needed.

Expedites changes needed to meet regulatory, accrediting, licensing, and government agency standards and laws.

Participates in department cost savings.

Complies with drug formulary and appropriate documentation.

Collaborates with appropriate leadership and buyer to purchase, contract, and procure medications and related supplies, ensuring product and vendor selection is based upon the highest medication safety standards.

Assists in making recommendations on process improvement or development of new pharmacy services.

Individuals experiencing exposed rashes, sunburn, weeping sores, conjunctivitis, active respiratory infections, or other communicable disease shall be excluded from compounding areas until their conditions are remedied.

Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

An organization is committed to the safety and wellbeing of associates and patients.

Therefore, it requires that all associates receive all required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter, where applicable.

Medical and religious exemptions may apply.