About this role
How would you like to work in a place where your contributions and ideas are valued? A place where you can serve with compassion, pursue excellence and honor every voice? At Wellstar, our mission is simple, yet powerful: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. We are proud to have become a shining example of what's possible when the brightest professionals dedicate themselves to making a difference in the healthcare industry, and in people's lives.
Work Shift
- Various (United States of America)
Job Summary
- The Pharmacist is responsible for appropriate, evidence based, medication use for the institution.
- They ensure patients get the right medication at the right dose.
- Pharmacists must have a medication safety viewpoint and be in compliance with all applicable standards and regulations (TJC, BOP, CMS, etc).
- Pharmacists oversee the activities of pharmacy technicians.
- Pharmacists must engage in teaching as part of the hospital's mission.
Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions
- Provides clinical pharmaceutical care to patients.
- Prevents, detects, and resolves medication-related problems and makes appropriate evidence-based, patient-centered medication therapy recommendations.
- Participates as an effective member of interdisciplinary care team(s) and communicates follow-up with team.
- Effectively verifies patient medication orders for appropriateness and accuracy.
- Provides effective medication education to patients, families, team.
- Enhances the quality of delivery of care.
- Actively participates in the development and implementation of performance/quality improvement and patient safety initiatives, including medication event/adverse reaction reporting follow-up, clinical guideline development, disease management, medication use evaluation/improvement, cost containment actions.
- Represents pharmacy services on institutional/practice area committees, quality unit councils.
- Conducts monthly unit inspections of assigned area.
- Demonstrates proficiency in pharmacy distributive services.
- Demonstrates quality, safety and efficiency in the distribution process.
- Actively collaborates and demonstrate teamwork with pharmacy coworkers to ensure communication, excellent customer service, safe and effective drug distribution.
- Provides oversight for pharmacy technicians.
- Participates in opportunities to improve the quality, effectiveness, and/or efficiency in distributing medications.
- Supports the education and professional development of the Pharmacy Department and other hospital disciplines (nursing/medical/etc.).
- Precepts residents, pharmacy students, or pharmacy technicians as assigned.
- Participates colloquially in the development of new programs, services, and practices, educational activities of the pharmacy department and medical team.
- Engages in professional self-development.
- Completes medical center/pharmacy competency requirements by deadlines.
- Establishes regular meetings with manager.
- Enhances professional and technical knowledge/competency by attending seminars, continuing education programs, department meetings, etc.
- Demonstrate active membership/service/leadership in professional organizations
Required Minimum Education
- or Bachelors Pharmacy
- Doctorate Pharmacy-Preferred
Required Minimum License(s) and Certification(s)
- All certifications are required upon hire unless otherwise stated.
- Reg Pharmacist within 180 Days
Required Minimum Experience
- Minimum 2 years in Pharmacy as a pharmacy technician, intern and/or pharmacist Preferred
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