Pharmacist - Per diem, Variable Shift

Adventist Health•Lodi, CA

20h•Onsite

About The Position

Adventist Health Lodi Memorial, located in San Joaquin County, has been a leading healthcare provider since 1952, comprising a 190-bed hospital, 17 medical offices, home care services, comprehensive cancer care, and other award-winning services throughout Lodi and surrounding areas. Lodi is known for its small-town charm, vineyards, and local restaurants, while also being close to major metropolitan cities like the Bay Area and Sacramento, and recreational areas like Lake Tahoe and the Northern California coast. The Pharmacist role involves verifying and filling medication orders, monitoring patient medication therapies, providing drug information, identifying and troubleshooting potential medication safety hazards, documenting all interactions for medical review, and supervising and directing support personnel.

Requirements

Graduate of school of pharmacy
Pharmacist license in the state of practice
All licensures and certifications needed to fulfill the duties required of a Pharmacist at the state level

Nice To Haves

Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree
One year's technical experience
Inpatient clinical pharmacy experience

Responsibilities

Processes, enters, verifies, and distributes medication orders within the institution in a timely manner and in compliance with department and hospital policies, as well as Joint Commission and other regulatory guidelines.
Actively ensures that medication therapy is efficacious, safe, cost effective, and achieves the best therapeutic outcomes.
Assures that medication prescribing is optimal with respect to indication, dose, route, frequency, history of allergy, and does not duplicate or negatively interact with other drugs.
Conducts and manages daily reports on medication utilization based upon daily rounds to identify, catalogue, and subsequently analyze areas in which medication improvement is needed.
Consistently performs quality assurance procedures in related work areas.
Participates in all pharmacy-related tasks and programs such as clinical rounds, unit based and/or population based medication management activities, remote order verification, and all other areas as directed/necessitated.
Expedites changes needed to meet regulatory, accrediting, licensing, and government agency standards and laws.
Participates in department cost savings.
Complies with drug formulary and appropriate documentation.
Collaborates with appropriate leadership and buyer to purchase, contract, and procure medications and related supplies to ensure that product and vendor selection is based upon the highest medication safety standards.
Assists in making recommendations on process improvement or development of new pharmacy services.
Performs other job-related duties as assigned.