Pharmacist (Travel)

Job Description

Job Summary:

• Professional position is responsible for supervising and providing pharmaceutical care offered by the Department of Pharmacy.
• The Pharmacist must demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide medication appropriate to the age of patients served in his/her department.
• The individual must acquire and/or demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.
• He/she must be able to provide medication with consideration of developmental status.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Dispense and provide professional supervision of inpatient and outpatient medications in accordance with legal requirements and hospital policy in a responsible, cost effective manner, as represented by the following:

• Initially screen and prioritize orders.
• Dispense stat, now, and initial doses as needed.
• Check Pyxis loads and refills; confirm for delivery.
• Check IV admixture products; confirm for delivery.
• Prepare and/or check chemotherapy admixtures; confirm for delivery.
• Refill and check code carts.
• Assist with Medication Reconciliation.
• Document items needed to be purchased in want book.
• Prepare and dispense employee prescriptions when needed.
• Compound medications as required.
• Provide total parenteral nutritional services offered by Pharmacy (enter orders and changes, prepare and/or check, confirm for delivery).
• Daily documentation of intervention activities & process samples.

Provide pharmaceutical care by identifying potential and actual drug-related problems, resolving actual drug-related problems, and preventing potential drug-related problems in a cost effective manner. These functions may be accomplished through:

• Review medication orders for appropriateness of therapy, drug interactions, allergies, contraindications, duplication of therapy.
• Communicating with physician concerning clarification of orders or therapeutic alternates.
• Acting as drug information source for physicians, nurses, patients, or other personnel.

Demonstrating appropriate basic clinical skill competency based on practice setting. These skills may include:

• CrCl calculation.
• Renal dosing.
• Pain management.
• Home health/hospice patient evaluation.
• Initial dosing of gentamicin/vancomycin with level scheduling.
• Identifying, monitoring, reporting adverse drug events.
• Daily documentation of clinical activities.

Facility Requirements:

• Must have 2 years recent experience as a Pharmacist in a hospital setting.
• Shifts will be (5) 8′, 1 weekend every 5th or so and yes rotating call.
• Must have BLS certifications; these must be attached to the submission (Must be through the American Heart Association).
• Must have Idaho Pharmacy license; this must be attached to the submission.