Pharmacist

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Compounding and Dispensing: Prepare, verify, and dispense customized sterile and non-sterile compounded medications in accordance with valid prescriptions and established procedures.
• Prescription Review: Evaluate prescriptions for appropriate dosing, ingredients, potential drug interactions, contraindications, and therapeutic suitability.
• Sterile Compounding: Oversee or perform sterile preparations, including injections and ophthalmic formulations, in accordance with applicable USP standards and pharmacy policies.
• Non-Sterile Compounding: Prepare customized capsules, creams, gels, ointments, oral formulations, and other dosage forms as prescribed.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure the accuracy, potency, stability, and quality of compounded preparations through appropriate calculations, documentation, and quality-control procedures.
• Regulatory Compliance: Maintain compliance with applicable Texas State Board of Pharmacy requirements, USP standards, and federal and state pharmacy laws.
• Cleanroom and Equipment Management: Follow appropriate garbing, aseptic techniques, cleaning, sanitization, and environmental monitoring procedures.
• Patient Safety: Verify final preparations, review labeling, provide appropriate medication counseling, and address medication-related questions.
• Inventory Management: Monitor pharmaceutical ingredients, supplies, and beyond-use dates; ensure appropriate storage and handling of medications.
• Documentation: Maintain accurate compounding records, batch records, prescription documentation, and quality-assurance records.
• Prescriber Communication: Collaborate with physicians and other healthcare professionals to clarify prescriptions and recommend appropriate compounded dosage forms when clinically indicated.

Expected hours: 4.0 – 8.0 per week

Work Location: In person