Pharmacist - Retail/PRN

Baptist Health Care • Pensacola, FL

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About The Position

The Pharmacist interprets and dispenses medication orders and ensures drugs are properly handled, used, and stored in the pharmacy. The role maintains departmental standards and puts pharmacy policies and procedures into daily practice. The pharmacist also provides patients, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals with information about medication therapy and drug-related topics and literature.

The position may assume charge pharmacist duties as needed, coordinating weekend and evening shifts and supervising part-time pharmacists and support personnel. Baptist Health Care is a not-for-profit health care system serving northwest Florida and south Alabama. It has more than 4,000 team members and includes hospitals, medical parks, the Andrews Institute for Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine, and a network of primary and specialty care providers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy or Doctorate in Pharmacy.
• Florida pharmacist license required upon hire.
• Maintain current pharmacy knowledge, certification, and licensure.

Responsibilities

• Interpret physician medication orders for accuracy and appropriateness, report errors, omissions, or discrepancies, and suggest appropriate or alternative drug therapy based on the patient's condition.
• Prepare and distribute medication orders for inpatient, outpatient, and ancillary areas, ensuring medication containers are labeled correctly.
• Counsel patients upon request.
• Maintain accurate patient medication profiles and monitor drug choice, dosage form, strength, treatment duration, and potential interactions.
• Comply with legal requirements for drug distribution and maintain current knowledge of pharmacy developments, certification, and licensure; pursue professional growth and development.
• Oversee distribution, control, and record keeping of controlled substances.
• Conduct in-service education for medical staff, nurses, pharmacists, students, and other healthcare personnel; train, supervise, educate, and check the work of support personnel and students.
• Support intradepartmental communication by attending staff meetings and in-services, reviewing meeting minutes and memos, and maintaining knowledge of pharmacy policies and procedures.
• Assume charge pharmacist responsibilities as required, including coordinating weekend and evening shifts, supervising part-time pharmacists and support personnel, assigning and delegating work, and handling issues when the director of pharmacy services is unavailable.
• Perform pharmacy responsibilities defined by the department's scope of service to address the needs of clients.
• Maintain departmental quality-control standards through drug usage evaluations and quality-assurance programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time