Pharmacist - Inpatient/Outpatient

Pharmacist

Be more than what you know yourself to be, here in Shiprock The Community Shiprock, NM. The meaning of Shiprock in Navajo language is one that invokes imagination to all to know, which in the language is Tse Bit'a'I, which means winged rock. It refers to the legend of the great bird that brought the Navajo from the north to their present lands, to the Four Corners region. When you use your imagination, Shiprock viewed from certain angles truly does resemble a large sitting bird with folded wings; the north and south summits are the tops of the wings for the giant creature. Witness the sculpted horizons of the southwest, where man-made boundaries mean nothing to the rugged lands. Here, the past is present where Hopi families still carry water to pueblo villages perched atop high mesas. Granaries at Keet Seel ruins in Navajo Nation Monument hold corn cobs stored seven centuries ago. Navajo families farm centuries-old fields in Canyon de Chelly National Monument, the site of prehistoric cliff dwellings inhabited by the Anasazi, ancestors of today's Pueblo Tribes. And Hopi and Navajo artisans still sell their trademark rugs and jewelry at the Hubble Trading Post.

Airport Information: Durango-La Plata County Airport Durango-La Plata County Airport (DRO), located approximately 15 miles southeast of Durango, Colorado, offers convenient access to the Four Corners region. With over a dozen daily non-stop flights to destinations like Denver, Dallas/Fort Worth, Phoenix, and Las Vegas, it provides easy connections to major hubs across the U.S. For more information about the airport, check out their website.

About the Facility: Shiprock Service Unit The Shiprock Service Unit, the largest geographical service unit of the Navajo Area Indian Health Service (NAIHS), serves populations across New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. SRSU oversees one hospital, Northern Navajo Medical Center (NNMC), and two health centers: Four Corners Regional Health Center and Dzilth-Na-O-Dith-Hle Health Center. NNMC offers comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services, including medical-surgical, pediatric care, labor and delivery, ICU, internal medicine, family practice, emergency care, women's health, and more, with 55 inpatient beds. NNMC's Emergency Department is certified as PEDS Ready, ensuring effective pediatric emergency care. Facility Address: Highway 491 North, Shiprock, NM 87420.

Responsibilities

• The pharmacist will be required to rotate call with other pharmacists with the infrequent possibility of needing to return to the pharmacy nights, weekends, and holidays for limited services to include, but not limited to, drug information, review and processing of inpatient orders, preparation of IV admixtures, and Pyxis replenishment.
• Shall provide outpatient and inpatient pharmacy services to patients ranging from neonate to geriatric.
• Will perform work in the following work areas as directed, screening patient electronic health record for appropriateness of the medication order or refill, verifying that patient prescriptions are accurately filled and the directions for use are clear, counseling patients to ensure proper use of the medication.
• Order screening duties will include a thorough review of the patient's electronic health record to verify the appropriateness of therapy. The following screening duties list is not exhaustive, but rather constitutes the minimum expectation: appropriate dose for the condition, weight, age, and renal/hepatic function of the individual patient, appropriate medication for condition, monitoring for drug-drug, or drug-disease interactions, and verification that day supply matches what is ordered.
• Shall verify that the prescription was filled with the correct medication and that the directions are clear and easy to understand.
• Shall counsel patients on the appropriate and safe use of their medication and that the directions are clear and easy to understand.
• Pharmacist will counsel patients on the appropriate and safe use of their medications. Prior to calling the patient, the pharmacist performs a quick rescreen of the order versus the patients' chart. During consultation, when appropriate, the pharmacist uses open ended questions to assess the patients understanding of what they are taking, how they are to take it and what they should expect while taking the medication. The pharmacist documents and pertinent counseling details.
• Shall be able to work independently, opening and closing pharmacy when needed.
• Pharmacist will need to refill Pyxis when a pharmacy technician is not available and/or after hours when called back.
• If the need were to arise, Pharmacist may need to conduct the above-mentioned services at the Zia Pueblo location (approximately 40 minutes from the ABQ facility) and the Bernalillo location (approximately 20 minutes from the ABQ facility).

Requirements

• Must be a graduate from a pharmacist educational program, accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education or its predecessors, at a college, university, or educational institution that is accredited by an accrediting body or organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained.
• Shall possess a current, valid, and unrestricted pharmacy license in a state, the District of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a Territory of the United States.
• Current BLS, ACLS, and/or PALS are preferred.

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