Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

Job Summary and Qualifications

POSITION SUMMARY:

The General Clinical Pharmacist is responsible for providing general clinical and pharmacy services. This includes supervision of technical staff.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Interpret orders and transcribes or verifies them accurately and efficiently into the pharmacy computer system

2. Accurately compound and dispense pharmaceuticals

3. Complies with facility policy and procedures and regulatory requirements

4. Monitor drug therapy regimens for contraindications, drug-drug interactions, drug-food interactions, allergies and appropriateness of drug and dose

5. Suggests appropriate, cost-effective therapeutic medication alternatives to medical staff

6. Sustain the hospital formulary, minimizing non-formulary procurements, utilizing therapeutic interchanges and promotes rational drug therapy selection

7. Provide accurate and timely medication information to healthcare staff and patients

8. Assist with clinical services such as drug consults, nutrition support, pharmacokinetics, anticoagulant monitoring, pain management, IV to PO, renal dosing and other programs as defined by Pharmacy Leadership.

9. Assist with the antimicrobial management and other clinical programs

10. Document all clinical activities and interventions accurately and completely

11. Support and participate in the goals of the organization's quality improvement, risk management and patient safety program to include but not limited to National Patient Safety Goals, Core Measures and HCAHPS medication related initiatives.

12. Complete notification reports regarding medication errors and adverse drug reactions

13. Participate in the training of new pharmacists, pharmacy students, and technicians

14. Maintain professional competency sufficient to meet current and future needs of the facility

15. Has knowledge of the patient population served and apply that knowledge in the care of those patients

16. Provide basic technical support for automated dispensing machines and other pharmacy computer systems effectively supervise pharmacy operation activities and provides support to the whole pharmacy team Compliant with facility pharmacy schedule to work physically at patient care areas to interact with medical staff, nurses and other members of the healthcare team.

17. Effectively and proactively intervene in conflicts between pharmacy and medical staff regarding drug therapy issue resolutions.

18. Train and participate with Disaster Team drills and real-event response as assigned

19. Train and participate with Code Teams as assigned. Obtain and maintain BLS-ACLS or PALS current certification as appropriate.

What qualifications you will need:

• Pharmacist
• Bachelors Degree

No Travel Required

1 years experience Required Years of Experience

Benefits

HCA Florida Lake City Hospital, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Florida Lake City Hospital is a 140+ bed acute care hospital. For over 60 years, we have served Columbia, Hamilton, and Suwannee counties and surrounding communities. Our hospital is a part of HCA Healthcare North Florida. We offer medical and surgical programs including 24-hour emergency care, heart care, interventional cardiology, orthopedics, cancer care, and imaging and rehabilitation services. We are an Accredited Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission. We are an Accredited Chest Pain Center by the American College of Cardiology. We have achieved Disease Specific Certification in the treatment of Sepsis by the Joint Commission. For 20 years in a row, we have been named the area's Best of the Best Hospital. We were named an employer of choice in 2019 by the Lake City-Columbia County Chamber of Commerce.


HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder


If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Advanced Clinical Pharmacist opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.