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Clinical Pharmacist
2 months ago
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Job Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Maintains utmost level of confidentiality at all times.
- Adheres to hospital policies and procedures.
- Demonstrates business practices and personal actions that are ethical and adhere to corporate compliance and integrity guidelines.
- Works closely with all pharmacy personnel to assure safe and efficient delivery of patient care.
- Serves in a professional capacity in-patient care areas. Monitors patients to assure optimal therapeutic outcomes.
- Ensures appropriateness of all medication doses in reference to the patient's diagnosis, weight/body surface area, age, allergies, and drug interactions.
- Identifies and intervenes when problems involving drug therapy arise (i.e. allergies, drug interactions, therapeutic duplication, adverse drug reactions).
- Completes intervention documentation and submits information according to departmental guidelines.
- Verifies appropriateness of drug selected. Initiates drug therapy when necessary.
- Suggests equally efficacious but less expensive therapy.
- Evaluates need for all non-formulary medications.
- Assures departmental policies and procedures are being followed, medication orders are being processed in a timely manner, and the quality of products dispensed meets established guidelines.
- Assures the patient receives the ordered medication as to dose, route, regimen, and generic substitution.
- Ensures that medication doses are filled and delivered within established departmental guidelines.
- Enters medication orders in the computer accurately and efficiently.
- Initiates and processes medication incident reports and adverse drug reaction reports as needed.
- Accurately completes Controlled Substance Inventory Records when dispensing controlled substances.
- Completes Controlled Substance Inventory as assigned and corrects problems identified.
- Answers phone calls promptly and politely by stating departmental area and name.
- Communicates problems, unique patient needs and other necessary information to on-coming staff for enhanced continuity of care.
- Acts as a liaison between the pharmacy and the medical and nursing staff for issues pertaining to pharmacy services.
- Supervises pharmacy technicians and support staff to promote efficient daily workflow.
- Completes annual aseptic technique certification by skills validation with a qualified observer.
- Accurately processes outpatient prescriptions and provides oral and written counseling information to the patient and/or parent.
- Accurately maintains investigational drug study records and documentation.
- Actively participates in the education and training of new pharmacy employees, pharmacy students, pharmacy residents, and pharmacy interns.
- Participates in on -going self-education activities and earns the number of hours of CE credit required by the Texas State Board of Pharmacy for license renewal.
- Participates in departmental data collection and reporting of Drug Use Evaluation, Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement activities.
- Completes all assigned clinic and nursing station check assignments before the end of each month, including follow-up and resolution of any problems identified.
- Routinely checks all available means of communication including e-mail and mailbox.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Graduation from an accredited College of Pharmacy with a B.S. or PharmD degree.
- One to three years of hospital pharmacy experience is preferred.
- Current licensure by the Texas State Board of Pharmacy.
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