Pharmacist - Pharmacy - Full Time

Guthrie Enterprise • Binghamton, NY

12d • $56 - $88

About The Position

Position Summary: Staff pharmacists fill orders for parenteral and enteral medications, monitor patient drug therapies, and provide drug information. Staff pharmacists supervise and direct support personnel. In the absence of the pharmacy manager, a staff pharmacist may be required to assume the essential responsibilities and perform the duties of the pharmacy manager. Education, License & Cert: Graduation from an ACPE accredited School of Pharmacy with a BS or Pharm D Degree. Current license to practice Pharmacy in the state of practice. Experience: An internship, residency, or prior experience in a health system is preferred, but not required. Competencies: The pharmacist must demonstrate growth and development of knowledge required to access data reflective of the patient’s status, interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patients requirements and to provide the pharmaceutical care needed, appropriate to the age of the patient and in accordance with appropriate policies and procedures. Patient Ages: The pharmacist must demonstrate the ability to meet the pharmaceutical care needs of neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients. Patient Types: The pharmacist must demonstrate the ability to meet the pharmaceutical care needs of acute care, intensive care, psychiatric care, sub‐acute care, long term care, ambulatory‐infusion and home‐infusion patients. The pharmacist must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to interpret and process outpatient prescription and provide the required prospective drug review patient counseling. The pharmacist must be able to review and process ambulatory and outpatient home infusion orders according to established policies and procedures of the department. The pharmacist is competent of the nuances between acute and ambulatory/home infusion patients.

Requirements

• Graduation from an ACPE accredited School of Pharmacy with a BS or Pharm D Degree.
• Current license to practice Pharmacy in the state of practice.

Nice To Haves

• An internship, residency, or prior experience in a health system is preferred, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Prepares and dispenses medication orders per physician request according to established policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Ensures safe, appropriate, cost‐effective medication therapies for patients according to established policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Contributes to the quality and effective operation of the department.
• Maintains competence required for current job.
• Processes outpatient prescriptions according to state and federal laws, and departmental policies and procedures.
• Routinely reviews assigned areas of the pharmacy inventory to ensure adequate stock levels and arrangement, and to remove drugs that are outdated or no longer utilized.
• Routinely inspects assigned hospital departments and nursing units where medications are stored to ensure proper storage conditions according to departmental and JCAHO standards.
• Performs additional duties as assigned; including, but not limited to, drug usage evaluation, quality assurance/control, drug file maintenance, drug information, etc.

What This Job Offers

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