Staff Pharmacist

Akahi Associates/Kako'o Services, LLC•San Antonio, TX

1d•$70•Onsite

About The Position

This position is for a Staff Pharmacist at Fort Sam Houston - Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) in San Antonio, TX. The role operates 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, including holidays. The pharmacist will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to optimize drug therapy, determine substance strength, dosage, and quantity for dispensing, and receive/review prescriptions. Responsibilities include performing advanced pharmaceutical calculations for intravenous admixtures and complex parenteral nutrition solutions, preparing labels, visually inspecting medications, and verifying dispensed medications against prescriptions. The pharmacist will review and interpret medication orders for inpatients, ensuring dosage, route, frequency, potential interactions, and allergies are screened. Medication distributive functions, quality assurance monitoring, security of controlled substances, and disposal of hazardous medications are also key aspects of the role. Additionally, the pharmacist will participate in the orientation, instruction, and training of pharmacy technicians, residents, pharmacists, and other health professionals. In some shifts, the pharmacist may be identified as a Code Responder and will respond to Code Blues.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in pharmacy.
Graduate from a college or university accredited by the Accreditation Council on Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE).
Current, full, active, and unrestricted license to practice as a pharmacist.
A minimum of one (1) year of inpatient pharmacy experience within the past two (2) years post-graduation.

Nice To Haves

Basic Life Support certification.

Responsibilities

Works collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to optimize drug therapy.
Determines type of substance, strength, dosage, and quantity to be dispensed in accordance with accepted practice and pharmacy standing operating procedures (SOPs).
Receives and reviews prescriptions for the full range of pharmaceuticals to include controlled drugs on the formulary.
Performs advanced pharmaceutical calculations in the manufacture of intravenous admixtures and complex parental nutrition solutions dealing with body surface area and creatine clearance rate formulas.
Obtains the pharmaceutical, prepares package labels, visually inspects the medication in the bottle to be dispensed, and verifies appropriate medication, checks the printed label affixed to the container against the original prescription for correctness.
Reviews and interprets medication orders to inpatients to ensure dosage, route, frequency, potential interactions, and allergies have been screened.
Performs medication distributive functions, including, but not limited to, preparation and/or verification of medications, labeling, compounding, and dispensing.
Follows established procedures and protocols concerning quality assurance monitoring, security of controlled substances, and disposal of hazardous medications.
Participates in orientation, instruction and training of pharmacy technicians, residents, pharmacists, and other health professionals.
May be identified per shift as a Code Responder and will respond to Code Blues during a particular shift.