Clinical Pharmacist

Stanford Health Care is seeking a highly skilled Clinical Pharmacist to join our team. As a Clinical Pharmacist, you will be responsible for providing a full range of distributive, clinical, consultative, research, investigational, and/or administrative pharmaceutical services. This includes selecting, compounding, manufacturing, purchasing, dispensing, and/or preserving drugs, medicines, and other therapeutic agents. You will also serve as a member and consultant on treatment or diagnostic teams, disseminating drug information to members of the hospital staff and interested community groups.

• Apply knowledge of solubility behavior of substances, stability of drugs, usages of drugs, and limitations on modes of administering drugs.
• Apply knowledge of incompatibilities in evaluating dosages and permissible concentrations of drugs, and in anticipating, preventing, and treating undesirable chemical reactions.
• Have legal responsibility for proper interpretation of prescriptions and the dispensing of prescribed products.
• Identify fine differences between drugs as they relate to therapeutic efficacy of the products.
• Maintain continuous awareness of new developments in the fast-moving drug field and be aware of emerging patterns, systems, and techniques in pharmacy practice.
• Maintain records, documents patient data, prepares written reports, and provides oral reports concerning patient care.
• May contribute to the accredited teaching programs, indoctrination and refresher training courses.
• Specify proper storage, protection, and preservation of therapeutic agents, in accordance with the standards of the United States Pharmacopoeia (U.S.P.) and the National Formulary (N.F.).

• Bachelor's in Pharmacy from an accredited college or university.
• Two (2) years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience.
• One (1) year if completed a PGY1 residency.

• Ability to apply judgment and make informed decisions.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to foster effective working relationships and build consensus.
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, work independently and meet deadlines.
• Knowledge of influence of patient's age, sex, concomitant disease states, concurrent drug therapy, foods and diagnostic procedures on drug activity and disposition.
• Knowledge of local, state and federal regulatory requirements related to areas of functional responsibility.
• Knowledge of Medical terminology and abbreviations; pharmacology and pharmacological nomenclature; medical therapeutics, pharmacokinetics, and disease states.
• Knowledge of methods and procedures involved in proper handling and storing of pharmaceutical supplies.
• Knowledge of physiology, anatomy, pathology, chemistry and mathematics as they relate to pharmacy practice.
• Knowledge of prescription and non-prescription drugs and drug products and their indications, efficacy, dosage, mechanisms of action; fate and disposition (if known), major contraindications and potential side effects.

• CA-PRM required.
• BLS - Basic Life Support required within 30 Days or ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support required within 30 Days.