Pharmacist - Steven Point

Pharmacist in Steven Point, WI

Join our dedicated team as a pharmacist in the beautiful city of Steven Point, WI! This role offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment where you can make a significant impact on patient care and quality of life.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Patient Experience

• Identify opportunities to improve patient experience.
• Participate in projects/programs designed to enhance service delivery and patient satisfaction.

Patient/Staff/Environmental Safety

• Identify opportunities to improve the environment of care, and patient and staff safety.
• Participate in projects and programs designed to create a safe environment to avoid error.

Specialty Function

• Provide service based on advanced knowledge or experience in a selected operational or clinical area of specialty practice.
• Specific job functions and requirements of specialty practice are listed in department description of specialty.
• Perform those functions of the pharmacist practitioner listed below as needed.

Direct Care Functions

• Interpret and screen medication orders to determine appropriateness of prescription, identify duplication of drug interactions, and consult with the prescriber for clarification.
• Enter medication orders into pharmacy/hospital information system accurately and efficiently.
• Prepare and dispense medications as required in an accurate and timely manner.
• Verify medications prepared by technicians.
• Counsel patients on safe and appropriate use of drugs.
• Intervene when necessary to improve the quality of patient care and ensure rational and cost-effective drug therapy.
• Gather patient-specific information as necessary to accurately assess and monitor drug therapy.
• Conduct and document provision of specific clinical services including pharmaceutical consultations and interventions, patient teaching, medication histories, adverse drug reaction assessment, or drug therapy review.
• Assure continuity of pharmaceutical care by providing physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals with necessary information related to a patient's therapeutic drug regimen.
• Communicate and participate in the clinical care of patients; document care provided.
• Evaluate the use of non-formulary drugs and suggest formulary alternatives as appropriate.
• Document all recommendations made to prescriber regarding appropriateness of drug therapy.

Organizational and Administrative Functions

• Supervise the daily activities of technicians and clerks in the responsible work area.
• Support and uphold established hospital and departmental policies, procedures, and guidelines, and state and federal regulations of pharmacy practice.
• Perform duties in a fiscally responsible manner.
• Participate in quality improvement, DUE, and The Joint Commission compliance as required.
• Maintain a clean and organized workplace.
• Assume responsibility for the department in the absence of supervisory personnel.

Educational Functions

• Orient and train new employees as requested.
• Function as a preceptor after one year of employment.
• Provide in-service education on medication use to other health care professionals and/or pharmacy staff.

Competency Enhancement

• Stay current on latest developments and practices of pharmacotherapy.
• Maintain competency and enhance own professional growth through continuing education, conferences, in-services, and professional society participation.
• Maintain positive communication, involvement, and commitment to interpersonal customer-centered service toward patients, physicians, nurses, and co-workers.
• Maintain competency and knowledge in the assessment, treatment, and care of patients of all ages, including neonates, pediatrics, adolescents, adults, and geriatrics with respect to pharmacotherapy.
• Maintain competency and knowledge in specialty area as defined by specialty description.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Education

• Knowledge of pharmaceutical standards and practices normally acquired through completion of a Bachelor's or Doctorate Degree in pharmacy from an accredited school of pharmacy, with a Doctorate required for some specialty areas of clinical practice as defined by specialty description.
• Completion of a residency and/or fellowship in pharmacy practice preferred and board certification or eligibility for such in specialty area of pharmacy practice, or equivalent experience desired.

Experience

• A minimum of one year's experience desired in institutional, hospital, or health system pharmacy practice to enhance and develop skills.
• Unique experience in a specialty area of pharmacy practice beneficial.

Required

• Possess current Wisconsin licensure as a pharmacist.
• Current CPR certification or obtained within 90 days of hire (except for job code 20604) - All clinical personnel in identified job codes are required to maintain cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training through independent study, manikin, and knowledge testing.

Other

• Membership in the American Society of Health System Pharmacists or the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, and the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin desired.

Annual Competencies

• Annual competencies as required by Aspirus and/or various regulatory agencies based on entity and/or job position.

Details

• Required Certs: WI Pharmacist License
• Required Education: Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum 3 years of inpatient hospital experience
• Charting: Epic experience required
• Unit Specific Skillset: Able to manage multiple concurrent responsibilities in a central inpatient pharmacy--verifying EPIC orders, checking technician work, answering pharmacist phone calls, etc.
• Inpatient pharmacy operating from 0600-1900 weekdays, 0600-1600 weekends/holidays, providing inpatient and outpatient IVs, inpatient unit dose meds, and outpatient chemotherapy.
• Inpatient Census usually 30-40
• Inpatient and Outpatient Surgery, Med/Surg, OB/GYN, ICU, outpatient oncology, ED
• Hard worker, Resilient and Manages Change well, Social candidates.
• Scrub Colors: NA- Business Casual- No lab coats

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