Pharmacist - Inpatient - Days - PRN
About The Position
The Pharmacist ensures the overall integrity, safety, rationality, and effectiveness of the drug use control process for all patients in the assigned geographic or specialty area, including the following patient groups: Neonates, Pediatrics, Adolescents, Adults, and Geriatrics. The role involves monitoring, screening, and verifying all drug-related orders for proper dosage, route, dosage form, and administration schedule, ensuring expedited preparation and dispensing. The pharmacist will resolve drug therapy problems, clarify and correct drug orders, designate technicians for special assignments, counsel patients on medication use, and resolve equipment and operational issues.
Requirements
- Current licensure with the Virginia State Board of Pharmacy required or obtained within the first 90 days of employment.
- Bachelors of Science in Pharmacy from an accredited academic program.
- Must be available to work evenings, nights and weekends.
- Lifting 20-50 lbs.
- Prolonged standing.
- Prolonged sitting.
- Frequent bending.
- Walking (distance).
- Climbing (steps, ladder, other).
- Reaching (overhead, extensive, repetitive).
- Strong recall.
- Reasoning.
- Problem solving.
- Hearing.
- Speak clearly.
- Write legibly.
- Reading.
- Logical thinking.
- Fast pace environment.
- Steady pace.
- Able to handle multiple priorities.
- Frequent and intense customer interactions.
- Noisy environment.
- Able to adapt to frequent change.
Nice To Haves
- Minimum of one (1) year of pharmacy practice experience in a similar setting.
- Previous experience with state of the art drug distribution and clinical service methods and drug information sources and retrieval and communication methods.
- Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) from an accredited academic program.
Responsibilities
- Monitor, screen, and verify all drug-related orders for assurance of proper dosage, route, dosage form, and administration schedule.
- Ensure expedited preparation and dispensing of all dosage forms by pharmacy personnel.
- Resolve drug therapy problems.
- Clarify and correct problematic drug orders.
- Designate pharmacy technicians to perform special assignments.
- Counsel patients regarding the safe and proper use of their medications.
- Resolve equipment and operational problems.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Mid Level
