Pharmacist - Inpatient

Description:

As a Pharmacy Professional, your role will involve making a positive impact on the lives of many individuals. This includes tasks such as dispensing medication, making purchasing decisions, monitoring drug therapy, preparing IV medication, and overseeing drug administration. It is essential to adhere to all facility policies and procedures.

Other duties and responsibilities may also include:

• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to optimize drug therapy
• Reviewing and interpreting medication orders and prescriptions for inpatients, ensuring proper dosage, route, frequency, potential interactions, and screening for allergies
• Providing clinical pharmacy services to hospital patients, such as order review and verification, medication reconciliation, pharmacokinetic dosing/monitoring, renal dose adjustment, anticoagulation monitoring, and IV to PO conversion
• Performing medication distributive functions, including preparation and/or verification of medications, labeling, compounding, and dispensing
• Providing drug information to prescribers, hospital staff, and patients
• Maintaining established procedures for quality assurance monitoring, security of controlled substances, and disposal of hazardous medications
• Overseeing technician activities and performance
• Providing necessary direction and guidance to pharmacy technicians
• Participating in orientation, instruction, and training of pharmacy technicians, residents, pharmacists, and other health professionals
• Performing duties in accordance with regulatory and governing bodies of pharmacy and/or the hospital
• Preparing a wide range of sterile products and performing pharmaceutical calculations for various preparations
• Ensuring safe handling, preparation, storage, and disposal of cytotoxic and hazardous drugs
• Strictly adhering to sterile procedures and maintaining proper operation and maintenance of equipment
• Receiving and reviewing physician orders for intravenous (I.V.) solutions, parenteral orders, inpatient unit dose orders, prescriptions, and bulk drug orders
• Performing final pharmacy checks on sterile products, bulk drug orders, replenishment of emergency medication carts, and inpatient automated dispensing cabinets according to local policy
• Performing advanced pharmaceutical calculations for the manufacture of intravenous admixtures and complex parental nutrition solutions, involving body surface area and creatinine clearance rate formulas
• Entering medication orders into the inpatient computer system, reviewing orders for allergies, drug/drug or drug/food interactions, and duplicate orders

Requirements

Requirements:

• Minimum 1 year of experience in a hospital setting
• Must already be certified
• Must have a PharmD
• IV compounding experience is required

Job Type: Contract
(40 Hrs/week) Variable
Contract Duration: (52 week Contract)
Work Location: In person @ Eagle Butte, SD, United States

Benefits

Pay: $75 - $90 per hour

401(k)

Dental insurance

Flexible schedule

Health insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance