Clinical Pharmacist - FT - Days - Pharmacy

Position Summary Clinical Pharmacists fill orders for parenteral and enteral medications, monitor patient drug therapy, and provide drug information. Clinical Pharmacists supervise and direct support personnel. In the absence of the director of pharmacy, a staff pharmacist may be required to assume the essential responsibilities and perform the duties of the director of pharmacy. Education & Qualifications BS Pharmacy degree or Pharm.D. or equivalent required Licensed to practice pharmacy in the state of Texas required. Completed all continuing education requirements Job Knowledge & Experience Two (2) years of hospital experience preferred, but not required. Twenty (20) hours of IV admixture preparation training. Requires good communication and organizational skills. Must have ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Must have ability to speak effectively, and possess strong reasoning ability and good independent judgment. Requires working with frequent interruptions Responsibilities Promotes the facility mission, vision and values by effectively communicating them to others; considers mission, vision and values in developing services, standards and practice. Adheres to instructions issued by department leadership and performs duties in accordance with established DHR routines, methods and techniques, and in compliance with recognized policies, procedures, standards and practices and within the state Regulatory Acts. Reviews prescriptions to assure accuracy, ascertain needed ingredients, and evaluate suitability. Provides information and advice regarding drug interactions, side effects, dosage and proper medication storage. Assesses identity, strength and purity of medications. Maintains records (pharmacy files, patient profiles, charge system files, inventories, control records for radioactive nuclei, registries of poisons, narcotics, and controlled drugs). Compounds and dispenses medications as prescribed by doctors and dentists, either calculating, weighing, measuring, mixing ingredients or overseeing these activities. Plans, implements, and maintains procedures for mixing, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals per policy and legal requirements, ensuring quality, security, proper disposal. Teaches pharmacy students (interns) in preparation for graduation or licensure. Advise customers on selection of medication brands, medical equipment and health‑care supplies. Provides specialized services to help patients manage conditions such as diabetes, asthma, smoking cessation, or high blood pressure. Collaborates with other health care professionals to plan, monitor, review, and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of drugs and drug regimens, providing advice on drug applications and characteristics. Monitors drug therapy regimens for contraindications, therapeutic duplications, drug‑drug interactions, drug‑food interactions, drug‑disease interactions, allergies, and appropriateness of drug and dose. Detects, assesses and reports suspected adverse drug reactions. Provides clinical consultation and clarification to practitioners. Documents all clinical activities and interventions accurately and completely. Assists with pharmacokinetics consult service and dosing per organizational protocol. Suggests appropriate, cost‑effective therapeutic alternatives to medical staff as needed. Makes appropriate dosing recommendations. Reviews/interprets culture and susceptibility data for antibiotic appropriateness and recommends changes as needed. Recommends conversion of IV to oral therapy when appropriate. Facilitates identification, resolution, implementation, and communication of cost‑effective medication use issues in collaboration with the medical staff. Keeps pharmacy equipment clean; keeps pharmacy areas clean, neat, and organized. Maintains efficient filing systems. Files papers, records, and reports. Enters medication orders into computer. Generates medication fill lists. Generates reports as needed. Issues controlled substances and controlled substance records to patient care areas and maintains records as required by law and pharmacy policies and procedures; assures adequate control and documentation of controlled substances; performs controlled substances inventories as scheduled. Utilizes appropriate information resources to answer drug information requests; provides accurate, adequate, timely drug information to professional staff. Sustains formulary by minimizing non‑formulary procurements, utilizing therapeutic substitution protocols, and promoting rational drug therapy selection. Assists in performing physical inventories; rotates stock to ensure use before expiration date; maintains "borrow/lend" records; documents all recalled drugs and action taken. Manages support personnel; performs essential duties of pharmacy director in absence; maintains logs, records, and other required documentation. Supervises and directs pharmacy support personnel; ensures pharmacy services provided in timely manner. Compounds and dispenses pharmaceuticals. Contacts prescribers regarding unclear or problematic medication orders; prepares intravenous and other sterile products accurately; prepares parenteral nutrition products; prepares chemotherapy products; reads and interprets medication orders; checks orders prepared by support personnel; receives verbal and written orders from licensed practitioners; screens medication orders for completeness, accuracy, and clinical appropriateness; checks medication labels; checks unit‑dose medication carts; supervises the intravenous admixture preparation area; obtains medication histories from patients, caregivers, and health care providers; maintains accurate and complete patient medication profiles; reconciles patient profiles and medication administration records; transcribes orders into computerized patient medication profiles; maintains outpatient/employees prescription profiles and records; participates in medication use review activities; collects and analyzes medication use data per predefined criteria; reviews use of targeted medications for compliance with current pharmacoeconomic programs; checks prepackaged medications and prepackaging records. Other Information Lines of Responsibility: Pharmacist → Pharmacy Director. Customer Service: Provide excellent customer service to all DHR customers. All employees are required to attend the DHR C.A.R.E.S program which outlines the Customer Service Principles including Commitment, Accountability, Respect, Excellence, and Service. Age Specific: Employees must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served in his/her assigned unit. The individual must demonstrate knowledge of principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirement relative to his or her age. Physical Requirements: Light/moderate lifting up to 20 lbs from floor to shoulder height; kneeling; must assist other employees with lifting >20 lbs; walking; light/moderate carrying up to 20 lbs; standing/squatting; straight pulling; sitting; pulling hand‑over‑hand; pushing; repeated bending; stooping/bending; reaching above shoulder; climbing stairs; simple grasping; climbing ladders (No); dual simultaneous grasping; depth perception; ability to see; identify colors; operating office equipment; twisting; operating mechanical equipment; crawling (No); ability to read and write; able to count; able to hear verbal communication without aid; operating personal vehicle; able to comprehend written/verbal communication; ability to deal with stress. OSHA Category: III. Working Conditions: The individual spends over 95% of his/her time in an air‑conditioned environment with varying exposures to noise. There is protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The position does have low exposure to malodorous, infectious body fluids from patients and some minimal exposure to noxious smells from cleansing agents. Occupational Exposure: This position has minimal to no exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissues and is an OSHA Category III. The person who performs these duties is not called upon as part of their employment to perform or assist in emergency medical care or first aid or to be potentially exposed in some other way. Intelligence & Aptitudes: General learning ability: ability to catch on or understand instructions and underlying principles; reason and make judgments. Verbal: ability to understand meanings of words and ideas and to use them effectively to present information or ideas clearly. Numerical: ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately. Spatial: ability to comprehend forms in space and understand relationships of plane and solid objects. Form perception: ability to perceive pertinent details and objects or in pictorial or graphic material to make visual comparisons and discriminations. Clerical perception: ability to receive pertinent details and verbal or tabular material, observe differences, proofread words and numbers, and avoid perceptual errors. Motor coordination: ability to coordinate eyes and hands to fingers rapidly and accurately. Finger dexterity: ability to move hands easily and skillfully. Manual dexterity: ability to move hands easily and skillfully. Eye‑hand‑foot coordination: ability to move the hand and foot coordinately with each other in accordance with visual stimuli. Color discrimination: ability to perceive, identify, and respond to differences in colors, shapes, or other values of the same or different colors. All values are rated on a scale from HIGH 1 to LOW 6. #J-18808-Ljbffr