Pharmacist, Night Relief - Pharmacy - Per Diem
About The Position
Staff pharmacists fill orders for parenteral and enteral medications, monitor patient drug therapies, provide drug information, and supervise and direct pharmacy support personnel. In the absence of the pharmacy manager, a staff pharmacist may be required to assume the manager’s essential responsibilities and duties. The pharmacist provides pharmaceutical care to patients across neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric age groups and across acute care, intensive care, psychiatric, sub-acute, long-term, ambulatory-infusion, and home-infusion settings. Duties include interpreting and processing outpatient prescriptions, providing prospective drug reviews and patient counseling, and processing ambulatory and outpatient home-infusion orders according to departmental policies and procedures. The role requires a current pharmacy license and a BS or PharmD degree from an ACPE-accredited School of Pharmacy. An internship, residency, or prior health-system experience is preferred but not required.
Requirements
- Graduation from an ACPE-accredited School of Pharmacy with a BS or PharmD degree.
- Current license to practice pharmacy in the state of practice.
- Demonstrated ability to access data reflecting patient status, interpret relevant information, identify patient requirements, and provide appropriate pharmaceutical care in accordance with policies and procedures.
- Ability to meet pharmaceutical care needs for neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
- Ability to meet pharmaceutical care needs in acute care, intensive care, psychiatric care, sub-acute care, long-term care, ambulatory-infusion, and home-infusion settings.
- Knowledge and skills to interpret and process outpatient prescriptions and provide prospective drug review and patient counseling.
- Ability to review and process ambulatory and outpatient home-infusion orders according to departmental policies and procedures.
- Ability to distinguish the needs of acute-care patients from those of ambulatory and home-infusion patients.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and organize and prioritize assignments.
Nice To Haves
- An internship, residency, or prior experience in a health system is preferred but not required.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and dispense medication orders according to physician requests and established policies, procedures, and protocols.
- Review and interpret medication orders and ensure accurate entry into computerized patient profiles.
- Accurately compound and dispense pharmaceuticals, including sterile, chemotherapy, and parenteral nutrition products.
- Issue controlled substances to patient care areas and maintain legally required records.
- Monitor drug therapy for contraindications, interactions, allergies, and appropriateness of the medication and dose.
- Assist with pharmacokinetic drug dosing according to protocol.
- Review culture and sensitivity data for antibiotic appropriateness and recommend changes as needed.
- Read, extract, and accurately interpret information in patient charts.
- Detect and report suspected adverse drug reactions accurately and promptly.
- Support the formulary by minimizing non-formulary procurements, using therapeutic substitution protocols, and promoting rational drug selection.
- Provide clinical consultation and clarification to practitioners and suggest appropriate, cost-effective therapeutic alternatives.
- Provide accurate, adequate, and timely drug information to professional staff.
- Document clinical activities and interventions accurately and completely.
- Participate in quality improvement and medication-use evaluations as required.
- Participate in developing and presenting orientation, education, and training programs for pharmacy, medical, nursing, and other staff.
- Supervise and direct pharmacy support personnel.
- Work independently with minimal supervision, organize and prioritize assignments, and ensure timely pharmacy services.
- Answer the telephone and identify self and department.
- Perform essential duties of the pharmacy director in their absence.
- Maintain current pharmacy licensure, attend staff meetings and training programs, and complete required competency and skills assessments.
- Process outpatient prescriptions according to state and federal laws and departmental policies and procedures.
- Review assigned pharmacy inventory areas to ensure adequate stock and proper arrangement, and remove outdated or no-longer-used drugs.
- Inspect assigned hospital departments and nursing units where medications are stored to ensure proper storage conditions according to departmental and JCAHO standards.
- Perform additional assigned duties, including drug-use evaluation, quality assurance and control, drug-file maintenance, and drug information.
