Pharmacist - Nights - Flagstaff

Northern Arizona Healthcare • Flagstaff, AZ

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Pharmacist position is a 7 on/7 off shift role within Northern Arizona Healthcare's 24-hour inpatient pharmacies. These pharmacies are fully computerized, featuring integrated lab/pharmacy/charting systems, automated dispensing, box pickers, and computerized physician order entry. Pharmacists will rotate through central dispensing and decentralized clinical areas, potentially including medical-surgical, total joint, behavioral health, pediatrics, woman and infant, surgery, and critical care. Key responsibilities include pharmacokinetic dosing consults, total parenteral nutrition management, antimicrobial stewardship, renal dosing, anticoagulation monitoring, pharmacotherapy recommendations, drug information, and direct patient education. Pharmacists also contribute to quality improvement and clinical projects, acting as active members of the patient care team. The role emphasizes ensuring optimal, safe, and cost-effective medication therapy through evidence-based practice to improve patient care across all age groups (neonatal, infant, child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric).

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in pharmacy from an accredited college of pharmacy
• Arizona State Board of Pharmacy license that is active and in good standing
• BLS certification
• ACLS certification
• PALS certification
• Competent using various pharmacy technology products such as electronic health records, automated dispensing machines, compounders, unit dosing, tube system, and clinical decision support/data mining tools.
• Colleagues must have an understanding of computers, and competence in using computers and basic software programs.

Nice To Haves

• Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an accredited college of pharmacy
• 3 months to 1 year of experience

Responsibilities

• Performs clinical services to optimize drug therapy and documents clinical interventions.
• Provides medication therapy management using medication-related protocols including pharmacokinetics, parenteral nutrition, serum creatinine and other therapeutic drug monitoring by utilizing clinical software and assessing relevant information.
• Advises physicians on use of formulary medications and suggests alternative therapeutic options.
• Provides accurate, clinically relevant drug information to physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals.
• Participates in code arrest response by providing information and assuring availability of medications.
• Identifies, prevents, and investigates potential and real adverse drug reactions and medication errors.
• Provides information required for drug related patient counseling.
• Reviews and interprets physician orders properly; screens for incompatibilities, interactions, duplicates, or contraindications.
• Contacts nursing personnel and/or prescriber regarding any questions on drug orders.
• Dispenses and labels medication orders, including oral medications and IV solutions.
• Competent using various pharmacy technology products such as electronic health records, automated dispensing machines, compounders, unit dosing, tube system, and clinical decision support/data mining tools.
• Processes patient charges and credits.
• Assists in maintaining basic drug supply from vendors.
• Exercises applicable legal and professional controls on controlled substances.
• Verifies physical inventory for incoming/outgoing items.
• Documents waste from returned/expired/unusable controlled substances properly.
• Supervises and is responsible for oversight of supportive personnel, licensed and non-licensed, and organizes/directs as needed.
• Reports adverse drug reactions, medication errors, and good catches.
• Assists in training of new staff members including pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
• Adheres to regulatory and organizational standards affecting patient care and safety as well as all hospital and departmental policies and procedures.
• Practices in a safe and cost effective manner.
• Stays current and complies with state and federal regulations/statutes and company policies that impact the employees area of responsibility.
• Ensures all certifications and/or licenses are up-to-date and valid prior to expiration dates.
• Completes all company mandatory modules and required job specific training in the specified time frame.
• Responsible for reporting any safety related incident in a timely fashion through the Midas/RDE tool; attends all safety related training programs; performs work in a safe manner; monitors work environment for possible safety issues and ensures others are also performing work in a safe manner.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level