Pharmacy Practice Resident II
About The Position
Dignity Health Nevada, a not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare system, has served the Henderson and Las Vegas communities for over 70 years, guided by the Adrian Dominican Sisters' vision. The Siena Campus is a 326-bed acute care hospital. St. Rose Dominican is part of Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest healthcare systems, with over 9,000 physicians, 60,000 team members, and 400 care centers across 22 states. Headquartered in San Francisco, Dignity Health is dedicated to compassionate, high-quality care, especially for the underserved. The pharmacy practice resident will actively participate in formulary management, medication management, and pharmacotherapy services. The resident will review, process, and verify physician orders for appropriateness, ensuring prompt and accurate delivery of medications to patients. They will provide drug information to health care professionals and patients to assist in accurate medication therapy. The scope of services includes accurate order entry, accessing allergy information, clinical interventions, medication dosing, renal dosing, hyperalimentation preparation, and medication counseling. The resident will also assist with pharmacy staff development, nursing and prescriber education, and pharmacy student training (when applicable), while maintaining a cordial and professional work environment.
Requirements
- Doctor Of Pharmacy
- Completion of a Post Graduate Year 1 (PGY1) pharmacy practice resident program, upon hire
- Pharmacist: NV, upon hire
- Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 60 Days
Nice To Haves
- Hospital pharmacy experience, upon hire
Responsibilities
- Actively participate in formulary management, medication management, and pharmacotherapy services.
- Review, process and verify physician orders for appropriateness.
- Ensure prompt and accurate delivery of medications to patients.
- Provide drug information to health care professionals and patients to assist in providing accurate medication therapy.
- Perform accurate order entry.
- Access allergy information.
- Perform clinical interventions.
- Perform medication dosing.
- Perform renal dosing.
- Perform hyperalimentation preparation.
- Perform medication counseling.
- Assist with pharmacy staff development.
- Assist with nursing and prescriber education.
- Assist with pharmacy student training (when applicable).
- Maintain a cordial and professional work environment.
- Ensures compliance with the hospital's formulary and approved policies and protocols related to medication management.
- Supervises unit dose drug distribution program.
- Ensures the accurate and prompt delivery of unit dosed medications to patients.
- Prepares intravenous products in accordance with written departmental guidelines.
- Monitors patient medication therapy and evaluates initiation of approved protocols.
- Assists nursing units/areas to monitor the proper storage and distribution of patient's floor stock, controlled substances and emergency medications.
- Appropriately participates in the maintenance and management of patient's medication orders; in regards to order evaluation, order entry, storage and retrieval.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
