Pharmacist Staff

St. Elizabeth Healthcare•Edgewood, KY

About The Position

The Staff Pharmacist provides pharmaceutical care to patients, emphasizing clinical monitoring and therapeutic interventions that improve patient outcomes. The role provides information and educational programs to customers, assists with maintaining performance-improvement processes for the Medication Use Process, ensures dispensing accuracy, and directs pharmacy workflow to support accurate and timely dispensing and distribution. The pharmacist is expected to demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness, and empathy in interactions with associates, patients, families, visitors, and other employees. The pharmacist verifies medication orders, monitors medication therapy under approved collaborative care agreements and protocols, compounds and dispenses pharmaceuticals, and supervises pharmacy interns and technicians. The role also contributes to medication-use safety initiatives, controlled-substance accountability, the department’s financial performance, drug-information services, and staff development. The pharmacist maintains licensure and professional competency and performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Graduate from an ACPE-accredited pharmacy college.
Current U.S. pharmacist license in the state where work is being performed.
Problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
Good communication skills.
Familiarity with current ASHP practice standards.
Previous hospital experience.

Responsibilities

Review and interpret medication orders, assess appropriateness and potential problems, obtain clarification when needed, recommend therapeutic alternatives, and perform second verification of pediatric and chemotherapy orders.
Monitor medication therapy under approved Collaborative Care Agreements and protocols; direct therapy within defined bounds, communicate recommendations to prescribers, and document assessments and interventions in patient charts.
Ensure timely and accurate dispensing; supervise compounding, ingredient and content verification, labeling, repackaging, and associated documentation; use barcode technology when possible.
Provide direct supervision and mentoring to interns and technicians, monitor task completion, redirect staff to meet patient needs, encourage use of the AIDET model, and report unresolved behavior concerns to leadership.
Detect and report dispensing variances and suspected adverse drug reactions, and participate in departmental initiatives to improve medication-use safety.
Participate in and supervise controlled-substance receipt, dispensing, distribution, inventory reconciliation, anesthesia waste reconciliation, and resolution of inventory discrepancies.
Support the department’s financial status by promoting formulary compliance and therapeutic interchanges, processing non-formulary requests, participating in IV-to-PO conversions, and handing off work appropriately to minimize overtime.
Provide timely drug information to medical staff, nursing staff, and patients; serve as a preceptor or advise pharmacy residents and interns; and develop staff education programs.
Maintain pharmacist licensure, complete departmental competency and skills assessments, maintain current pharmacy-practice knowledge, and develop and maintain specialized-practice skills.
Perform other duties as assigned.