Pharmacist - Pharmacy - Full Time

Guthrie Enterprise•Cortland, NY

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for preparing and dispensing medications for patients within the Hospital. Provides those other services which may be required as part of the daily operating activities of the Pharmacy Department; compounds and dispenses medications and other pharmaceutical supplies, using standard physical and clinical procedures to fill written prescriptions issued by physicians, dentists, and other qualified prescribers.

Requirements

Doctor of Pharmacy or Bachelor of Pharmacy from an accredited School of Pharmacy.
Current License as pharmacist in NYS and preferably PA.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience in hospital pharmacy practice preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

Team Member Expectations: Understands and adheres to GCMC's compliance standards, keeps abreast of pertinent regulations, demonstrates skill in area of responsibility, develops a spirit of teamwork, learns from mistakes, ensures patient safety, participates effectively in department meetings, works to improve the practice of pharmacy by working with and training new employees, pharmacy interns and students, imparts clinical pharmacy knowledge by presenting pharmaceutical or medication use safety services for clinical staff or community educational programs.
Operational and Service Excellence Expectations: Maintains all required records including controlled substance records and all appropriate department forms, processes physician orders quickly and accurately, appropriately questions, rectifies and documents response to any medication related problem encountered during order processing, follows policy and procedure order processing for high-risk patients and high-risk medications, ensures medications are being distributed in a timely fashion, strives for zero defect production level in medications dispensed from pharmacy, ensures all tasks are complete at the end of the shift or communicates items left to next shift, prevents Medication Occurrences, works to ensure products are mixed accurately and timely according to developed processes and expectations in the IV room, works to ensure 797 requirements are being adhered to in the IV room, follows policy and procedure for clarifying orders.
Clinical Excellence: Demonstrates understanding of the patient and his/her condition or disease and its treatment, appropriately handles dosing, monitoring, and pharmaceutical care of high risk patients, performs the appropriate documentation of interventions, ensures all antibiotic usage is appropriate, streamlines and de-escalates therapy, ensures appropriateness of medication regimens, reacts appropriately to serum level, INR and all other pharmacy generated reports and alerts, ensures appropriate DVT prophylaxis, participates actively and effectively in multidisciplinary rounds, demonstrates active participation in the Medication Reconciliation Process, responds to drug information questions using appropriate references.
Financial Success: Actively minimizes waste within the pharmacy through appropriate practices, performs cost savings interventions including changing ordered therapy based on pharmacy inventory, ensures appropriate patient charging is not identified as a cause of charge audits, identifies cost saving or operational efficiency ideas.
Strategic Growth: Demonstrates his/her contributions to promoting the success of the department yearly goals through the completion of individual goals, contributes to the development of the Pharmacy Department, demonstrates continued learning, displays genuine interest in the profession of pharmacy through participation in local, state or national professional organizations, performs other duties as requested and observed by manager or supervisor.
Other Duties: Travel for this position is sometimes required. Participation in community and employee engagement activities is required. It is understood that this description is not intended to be all-inclusive and that other duties may be assigned as necessary in the performance of this position.