Staff Pharmacist

About the role

This is a pharmacy role involving outpatient and inpatient dispensing, unit dose dispensing, oncology pharmacy, and satellite pharmacy operations across operating rooms, delivery rooms, and emergency departments. The role encompasses medication verification, preparation, dispensing, patient counseling, inventory management, and coordination with other healthcare practitioners.

Key responsibilities

• Verify, prepare, dispense and charge drug products in accordance with established policies, procedures and pertinent statutory and regulatory requirements
• Provide written and verbal counseling concerning medication use and other drug information suitable to patient needs
• Assure completeness and interpret appropriateness of medication orders including age-related factors before preparing or permitting distribution of drug products
• Maintain accuracy of patient drug profiles
• Prepare and label medication requests using appropriate technique and following health system policies and procedures
• Ensure policies and procedures related to drug distribution are followed
• Compound preparations not available commercially such as compounded prescriptions, Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) and other I.V. admixtures
• Display initiative in preventing, identification and reporting pharmacy-related patient care problems and medication errors
• Check daily census and admission status of patients and review medication orders for newly ordered, discontinued, shifted, or adjusted medications
• Notify physicians of therapeutic incompatibility, potential drug interactions and duplicate prescriptions

About you

• Ability to verify, prepare and dispense drug products in accordance with established policies and procedures
• Knowledge of medication use, drug information and patient counseling
• Ability to interpret appropriateness of medication orders including age-related factors
• Competency in preparing and labeling medication requests using appropriate technique
• Ability to compound preparations including compounded prescriptions, Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) and I.V. admixtures
• Skill in identifying and reporting pharmacy-related patient care problems and medication errors
• Ability to provide drug information and respond to pharmacy-related queries
• Competency in preparing antineoplastic IV admixtures and boluses using standard antiseptic technique
• Ability to conduct inventory monitoring and management of base stock and emergency-cart medicines
• Commitment to confidentiality of records and adherence to data privacy law and hospital data privacy policy