Staff Pharmacist - Inpatient - Rotating

VCU Health•Richmond, VA

17h•Onsite

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 dosage, route, dosage form, and administration schedule, ensuring expedited preparation and dispensing. The pharmacist will also resolve drug therapy problems, clarify and correct problematic drug orders, designate technicians for special assignments, counsel patients on medication use, and resolve equipment and operational issues. This position requires availability to work evenings, nights, and weekends.

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.

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

Ensures the overall integrity, safety, rationality, and effectiveness of the drug use control process for all patients.
Monitors, screens, and verifies all drug-related orders for assurance of proper dosage, route, dosage form, and administration schedule.
Ensures expedited preparation and dispensing of all dosage forms by pharmacy personnel.
Resolves drug therapy problems.
Clarifies and corrects problematic drug orders.
Designates pharmacy technicians to perform special assignments.
Counsels patients regarding the safe and proper use of their medications.
Resolves equipment and operational problems.