Pharmacist-Clinical
About The Position
Responsible for customer satisfaction, supervising and managing shift personnel and physical resources, assuring accurate dispensing of pharmaceuticals, QC/PI activities, and exemplifying pharmaceutical care ideals. This role involves following attendance, dress, education, and safety policies, complying with regulatory agencies, directing staff, optimizing resources through formulary substitutions, participating in departmental and hospital activities, completing competency assessments for IV medications and sterile compounding, and exercising professional judgment in communicating with healthcare professionals to ensure safe medication use and minimize errors. The pharmacist will also identify and advise on drug-drug interactions, food-drug interactions, and potential adverse drug reactions, and provide clinical dosing/monitoring services for high-risk medications.
Requirements
- BS in Pharmacy/Pharm.D.
- Prior experience in health system pharmacy including experience with computer systems and their applications to the clinical and operational aspects of pharmaceutical care required.
- 2-3 years as a Health System Pharmacist (practicing in both the distributive and clinical/decentralized duties) or completed in ASHP accredited PGY1 residency (or eligible).
- Current license (or eligible) to practice pharmacy in S.C.
Nice To Haves
- Pharmacy extern will work under supervision of licensed pharmacist until license obtained.
Responsibilities
- Customer satisfaction
- Supervising and managing shift personnel and physical resources
- Assuring accurate dispensing of pharmaceuticals
- QC/PI activities
- Exemplifying pharmaceutical care ideals
- Following attendance, dress, education (including continuing education) and safety polices
- Complying with appropriate regulatory agencies’ requirements, e.g. DHEC, DEA, etc.
- Directing staff and encouraging teamwork to ensure department workload duties are correctly assigned throughout the staff on a day to day basis
- Completing appropriate formulary substitutions in order to optimize physical resources
- Initiating and documenting appropriate follow-up on problem areas identified on departmental inspections by serving as a resource person for the department
- Participating in departmental and hospital activities such as, departmental in-services, participation in hospital and/or departmental committees.
- Participating in departmental and hospital activities on performance Improvement
- Completing competency for IV medication and IV Room competency and is assessed of aseptic technique for sterile compounding preparations within established departmental guidelines
- Exercising professional judgment, discretion, and initiating communication with physicians, nurses, and other members of the health care team when there is question of appropriateness or a recommendation for more appropriate therapy to ensure safe medication use and to minimize the risk of medication errors
- Alerting and/or advising physician/nursing of drug-drug interaction, food-drug interaction.
- Able to identify potential adverse drug reactions, document, and intervene as needed
- Providing clinical dosing/monitoring services on identified high-risk medications and adjusts/advises on result of data that are outside the appropriate parameters/guidelines
- Other duties as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
