Pharmacist - PRN

WVU Medicine • Uniontown, AL

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Working with Pharmacy personnel, the Pharmacist compounds and dispenses medications and other pharmaceutical supplies using standard procedures to deliver comprehensive professional pharmaceutical service in a modern hospital. Responsibilities may also include purchasing, continuing education programs, stocking supplies for night stock, departmental reports, and other work that supports an organized and efficient department.

Requirements

• Hold a current pharmacist license from the state board applicable to where services are provided: Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or West Virginia.
• Be familiar with professional and commercial phases of hospital pharmacy and with state and federal laws governing pharmacy.
• Understand growth and development.
• Understand patients’ needs and scope of treatment, including biophysical, bio-psychosocial, environmental, self-care, educational, spiritual, cultural, ethical, and discharge-planning needs.
• Know pain management principles to support patient comfort through a proactive pain-control plan.
• Know the total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment, focusing on control of pain and other symptoms.
• Demonstrate competency, as appropriate, in patient-care assessment for neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations.
• Meet the physical requirements of walking and standing for long periods, lifting 30 pounds, pushing 50 pounds, and using dexterity to finger, handle, and reach.

Nice To Haves

• Hospital pharmacy experience through an internship or as a registered pharmacist.
• Computer experience.

Responsibilities

• Dispense drugs, chemicals, and other pharmaceutical preparations as ordered by physicians.
• Remain available for pharmaceutical consultation with doctors or nurses.
• Question prescriptions when necessary.
• Assist the Pharmacy manager with purchasing drugs from vendors.
• Communicate with pharmaceutical company sales representatives when needed.
• Conduct drug checks and inspections on various floors as required.
• Assist with the IV admixture program by checking orders for completeness, accuracy, and compatibilities, and by providing technical advice.
• Attend pharmacy-related hospital meetings when delegated.
• Assist the manager with the Pharmacy Quality Assurance program.
• Assist the manager with Pharmacy floor inspection reports.
• Support continuing education programs, stock supplies for night stock, and prepare departmental reports as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: No Education Listed