Pharmacist - PRN

Pharmacist - PRN

Creekside Behavioral Health | Kingsport, Tennessee

The Pharmacist is responsible for maintaining pharmaceutical dispensing functions, including clinical review functions, in accordance with all legal and regulatory requirements. Provides pharmaceutical care and products to all patients. Dispenses medications; interprets and/or evaluates medication orders; receives medications and supplies; and performs other functions as necessary to serve the hospital.

Roles and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Interprets and evaluates medication orders (verbal and written) for appropriateness of therapy, incompatibilities, dosage, and age and transcribes to computerized patient mediation profiles. Maintains patient medication profiles.
• Seeks clarification on incomplete medication orders and obtains indications.
• Dispenses pharmaceuticals and controlled substances to patient care areas in a safe and timely manner.
• Maintains the formulary by minimizing non-formulary procurements, utilizing therapeutic substitution protocols and promoting rational drug therapy selection.
• Leads a team of highly engaged members through hiring, orienting, performance assessment and management, motivating, training, scheduling, and coaching to meet department goals and ensure effective and efficient department operation.
• Maintains productivity levels that are aligned with client census, curtailing unnecessary overtime and/or excessive staff work hours.
• Maintains accountability expectations for staff in all areas of job performance.
• Engages staff in quality and safety basics to ensure sustained, measurable compliance.
• Identifies staff educational needs and ensures they are addressed with education programs that are attended by staff.
• Hold staff accountable for non-compliance and client safety concerns, as well as attendance, following policies, behavior, and adherence to code of conduct.
• Ensures safe, appropriate, cost-effective medication therapies for patients according to established policies, procedures and protocols.
• Detects and reports suspected adverse drug reactions and medication occurrences.
• Utilizes formulary initiatives and clinical review to provide adequate pain management for the client.
• Utilizes principles of drug dosing in the pediatric patient to provide medications to patients in correct doses and formulations.
• Monitors drug therapy regimens for contraindications, drug-drug interactions, drug-food interactions, allergies and appropriateness of drug and dose.
• Adjusts dosages or choice of medications based on decreased renal clearances in the elderly or other patients with compromised renal function.
• Reviews/interprets culture and susceptibility data for antibiotic appropriateness and recommends changes, as needed.
• Participates in the review of opiate medications that are prescribed for appropriateness.
• Reads extracts and interprets information in patient charts.
• Provides clinical consultations and clarification to practitioners. Suggests appropriate cost-effective therapeutic alternatives to medical staff.
• Provides drug information to the professional staff, patients and families.
• Performs initial screening of order entry to provide information to perform interventions and documents all clinical activities and interventions.
• Monitors provision of off-hours pharmacy operations, stock medications, controlled substances, medications brought from home, and patient education.
• Conducts regular rounds on the nursing units to assess for compliance with requirements for medication control and storage.
• Participates in the development and presentation of orientation, education, and training programs to the pharmacy, medical, nursing, and other staffs.
• Performs monthly and biennial controlled substance audits.
• Assists with pharmacokinetics consult service and drug dosing per hospital protocol.
• Prepares annual evaluation of the Medication Management program, annual review and approval of the hospital formulary, as well as lists of Look Alike Sound Alike Medications and High Alert Medications.

Education/Experience/Skill Requirements

• Graduate degree from an accredited School of Pharmacy. Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree preferred.
• Minimum experience: hospital internship rotation.

Licenses/Designations/Certifications

• Active and in good-standing state Pharmacy license.
• Certification by the National Certification Board for Pharmacists and any required licensure.
• CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification may be required based on state requirements or facility policy.
• First aid may be required based on state or facility requirements.

This position is onsite and is not a remote position.

This position is an Individual Contributor

Why Creekside Behavioral Health? Creekside Behavioral Health offers a comprehensive benefit plan and a competitive salary commensurate with experience and qualifications. Qualified candidates should apply by submitting a resume. Creekside Behavioral Health is an EOE.

Veterans and military spouses are highly encouraged to apply. Summit BHC is dedicated to serving Veterans with specialized programming at our treatment centers across the country. We recognize and value the unique strengths of the military community in supporting our mission to serve those who have served.