Pharmacist (Outpatient) - Retail Pharmacy (Per Diem)
About The Position
Adventist Health Delano is a full-service community and regional teaching hospital with a focus on growth and technological expertise since 1974. It is a 156-bed medical center serving 10 rural Central California cities with primary and specialty care services. Delano offers a balance of small-town community and cultural diversity. This role compounds, prepares, mixes, manufactures, and dispenses medicines and preparations. The pharmacist monitors drug therapies, identifies and troubleshoots potential medication safety hazards, and documents all interactions for medical review. They also manage lower-level technicians.
Requirements
- Graduate of school of pharmacy: Required
- Pharmacist license in the state of practice: Required
- All licensures and certifications needed to fulfill the duties required of a Pharmacist at the state level: Required
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's Degree: Preferred
- One year's technical experience: Preferred
Responsibilities
- Compounds, prepares, mixes, manufactures and dispenses medicines and preparations.
- Monitors drug therapies, identifies and troubleshoots potential medication safety hazards and documents all interactions for medical review.
- Manages lower level technicians.
- Processes, enters, verifies, and sends medication orders within the institution in a timely manner that is in compliance with department and hospital policies, Joint Commission and other regulatory guidelines, while actively ensuring that medication therapy is efficacious, safe, convenient, and cost effective and establishing the best therapeutic outcomes.
- Assures that medication prescribing is optimal with respect to indication, dose, route, frequency, history of allergy, and does not duplicate or interact with the effects of other drugs.
- Conducts and manages reports on medication utilization to identify, catalogue, and subsequently analyze areas in which medication improvement is needed.
- Consistently performs quality assurance procedures in related work areas.
- Participates in all pharmacy-related tasks and programs.
- 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 in order to ensure that 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.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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