Supervisory Pharmacist
3 months ago
Gallup, New Mexico, United States
Indian Health Service
Full time
Orients, trains, and evaluates competencies and rates performance on the pharmacy technicians. Assures proper program staffing, program quality, productivity an effectiveness and assesses the need to revise or develop programmatic changes to meet patient care needs.
Creates, evaluates and implements competencies to comply with required training and standards. Responsible for management of staff including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, contractors and clerical personnel.Assures Pharmacy prescription service are provided in a safe and effective manner.
Reads and interprets prescriptions, computes dosages, weights and measures drug, mixes and compounds drug and chemical and provides patient counseling.
Ensures compliance with regulatory agencies such as CMS, DEA, USP as well as applicable state and federal laws.Serves as resources for quality assurance, and performance improvement (QAPI) for the department as well as and medication safety for the facility.
Assures proper attention to labeling needs, including specifying directions for use and precautions to assure protection of contents and patient.
Promotes learning experiences to improve the performance of all levels of pharmacy personnel. Identifies continuing education needs based on performance of staff and pharmacy goals.