Overview
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Pharmacy seeks a full-time Clinical Pharmacist to support the Dick Hall's House Pharmacy. Located on the Dartmouth College campus in Hanover, NH, our pharmacy primarily supports the college's students and employees. Our ideal candidate has retail pharmacy experience, though all are encouraged to apply.
Position highlights:
- Monday-Friday, 8:30 AM-5:00 PM during school sessions, closing at 4:00 PM during Summer and Winter/Spring breaks
- Alignment with college holiday schedule
- Embedded in clinic; enables you to work closely with the providers and prescribers
Responsibilities
- Gathers a complete medication history and reconciles medication lists as applicable and appropriate.
- Completes a comprehensive medication review to make evidence-based recommendations to ensure medications are necessary, safe and cost effective.
- Identifies and records suspected adverse drug reactions, adherence gaps to medications and barriers to patient adherence.
- If not practicing under a collaborative practice agreement or an approved protocol, contacts providers when there appears to be a possibility of unsafe or inappropriate medication use due to factors including, but not limited to: allergy, medical condition, drug interactions, dosing, and method of administration. Accurately documents all clinical activities and interventions in the electronic record.
- Serves as a consultation resource to medical professionals and answers inquiries on drug therapy and drug products.
- Consults patients and caretakers on all aspects of medication therapy when necessary.
- Counsels patients and caretakers on proper drug administration, potential drug side effects, interactions and precautions. Helps locate medication supplies not generally available.
- Contributes to the development, maintenance and management of medication related guidelines defined by protocol or collaborative practice agreements.
- Detects and reports medication errors and near misses.
- Ensures readiness for regulatory and accreditation surveys.
- Participates in the quality improvement and medication use review activities of the department.
- Prepares and delivers presentations to facilitate learning or disseminate evidence-based best practice to pharmacists, nurses, physicians, and other healthcare professionals in the hospital or ambulatory/outpatient settings.
- Utilizes a solution based approach to ensure heightened patient satisfaction and care.
- Anticipates patient needs and proactively identifies solutions.
- Communicates effectively between departments and teams to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
- Actively participates in driving all programs and initiatives to improve patient quality of care, medication compliance, medication adherence and overall efficiency.
- Pursues and maintains certifications necessary to remain compliant with changes to system/department accreditations and standards.
- Participates in the ordering and receiving of controlled substances and other medications as appropriate.
- Effectively utilizes and supervises technicians to maintain an accurate and efficient pharmacy system. Re-directs staff when necessary to ensure service performance goals are met.
- Uses professional judgment to resolve complaints. Acts as pharmacist-on-duty in the absence of pharmacy managers and supervisors.
- Performs all duties of a registered pharmacist in the state of NH including providing vaccinations approved for administration by the NH Board of Pharmacy. This requirement causes a regular, or frequent potential occupational exposure to blood or bodily fluids and is assigned a Level 1 Classification for occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens. The employee may be expected to render medical assistance as part of their job description. Bloodborne pathogen training is required and hepatitis B vaccinations will be offered.
Qualifications
- Graduate of an ACPE-accredited School of Pharmacy with a Bachelor's of Science in Pharmacy
- Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D) degree preferred.
- Completion of a post-graduate residency and/or board certified preferred.
- Must be able to work independently with minimal direct supervision, to set priorities, make critical decisions, respond quickly to emergency requests, handle frequent interruptions, and adapt.
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