Mount Sinai Health System Per Diem Pharmacist

** FOR FUTURE OPPURTUNITIES**

Strength Through Diversity

Ground breaking science. Advancing medicine. Healing made personal.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Responsible for activities which support patient focused are with the medical center. These include: filling and dispensing drugs and pharmaceutical preparations as prescribed by medical staff members for administration to patients.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Dispenses medications accurately and in a timely fashion

2. Resolves questions regarding formulary/ and non-formulary medications, knowledge of and follows policies and procedures

3. Provides dosing & therapeutic recommendations that take patient age/ kinetic variables based on literature

4. Performs clinical chart reviews on a scheduled basis

5. Performs Patient Care Unit inspections on a scheduled and timely basis

6. Prepares parenteral medications using sterile aseptic technique

7. Maintains adequate medication supply in the Pharmacy area and informs supervisor of impending shortages

8. Intervenes and documents interventions to correct/ improve pharmacotherapy

9. Reports adverse drug events and medication errors occurring in area serviced

10. Takes responsibility for the operation of the assigned Pharmacy area and activities of all supportive personnel

11. Adheres to Hospital's dress code

12. Maintains an acceptable attendance record

13. Keeps up to date by reading and attending workshops, conferences and C.E. programs to maintain professional competency

14. Perform chart reviews, looking for appropriateness of drug therapy for the disease or diseases being treated as per department requirements.

15. Responsible for medication reconciliation as per department requirements.

16. Performs patient education, including but not limited to, proper dose as prescribed, taking meds on time, side effects if any, interaction with other drugs patient might be taking, all as per department requirements.

17. Completes PEAK training and educational requirements as per department and/or hospital requirements.

Requirements:

**Must have 2 years of hospital pharmacist experience in Adult Critical Care or Pediatric Critical Care.**

**Ability to work every other weekend.**

Education:

**Graduate from an accredited College of Pharmacy (ACPE).**

Experience:

**Must have 2 years of hospital pharmacist experience in Adult Critical Care or Pediatric Critical Care.**

**Compensation**

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $90.00 Per Hour. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.

**Strength Through Diversity**

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai's unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

+ Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.

+ Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.

+ Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.

Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history

**"About the Mount Sinai Health System:**

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Children's Hospitals" ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek's "The World's Best Smart Hospitals" ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism."

**EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans**

**Requisition ID** : 2200007Z