Pharmacist - Inpatient

envia.com • Minneapolis, MN, United States • $200k - $250k / year • 2w ago

Description:

As a Pharmacy Professional, your role will involve making a positive impact on the lives of many individuals. This includes tasks such as dispensing medication, making purchasing decisions, monitoring drug therapy, preparing IV medication, and overseeing drug administration. It is essential to adhere to all facility policies and procedures.

Other duties and responsibilities may also include:

Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to optimize drug therapy
Reviewing and interpreting medication orders and prescriptions for inpatients, ensuring proper dosage, route, frequency, potential interactions, and screening for allergies
Providing clinical pharmacy services to hospital patients, such as order review and verification, medication reconciliation, pharmacokinetic dosing/monitoring, renal dose adjustment, anticoagulation monitoring, and IV to PO conversion
Performing medication distributive functions, including preparation and/or verification of medications, labeling, compounding, and dispensing
Providing drug information to prescribers, hospital staff, and patients
Maintaining established procedures for quality assurance monitoring, security of controlled substances, and disposal of hazardous medications
Overseeing technician activities and performance
Providing necessary direction and guidance to pharmacy technicians
Participating in orientation, instruction, and training of pharmacy technicians, residents, pharmacists, and other health professionals
Performing duties in accordance with regulatory and governing bodies of pharmacy and/or the hospital
Preparing a wide range of sterile products and performing pharmaceutical calculations for various preparations
Ensuring safe handling, preparation, storage, and disposal of cytotoxic and hazardous drugs
Strictly adhering to sterile procedures and maintaining proper operation and maintenance of equipment
Receiving and reviewing physician orders for intravenous (I.V.) solutions, parenteral orders, inpatient unit dose orders, prescriptions, and bulk drug orders
Performing final pharmacy checks on sterile products, bulk drug orders, replenishment of emergency medication carts, and inpatient automated dispensing cabinets according to local policy
Performing advanced pharmaceutical calculations for the manufacture of intravenous admixtures and complex parental nutrition solutions, involving body surface area and creatinine clearance rate formulas
Entering medication orders into the inpatient computer system, reviewing orders for allergies, drug/drug or drug/food interactions, and duplicate orders