Pharmacist Outpatient Relief

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

The Outpatient Pharmacist provides pharmaceutical care, supervises support staff, and participates in dispensing activities, adverse drug reaction monitoring, drug information and patient education. This person may provide pharmacy services to patients from neonatal, infant, child, adolescent, adult and geriatric age groups. This person will have knowledge of the skills to care for the pharmacy needs of these populations. Pharmacists will have oversight responsibility when non-licensed staff handle non-controlled substances.

Responsibilities

Patient Care

• Performs clinical services to optimize drug therapy and documents interventions.
• Delivers medications to the patients bedside prior to discharge and provides medication counseling.
• Ability to prepare specialty compound drugs.
• Provides accurate, clinically relevant drug information to physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals.
• Provides pharmaceutical care to nursing facility patients.
• Identifies, prevents, and investigates potential and real adverse drug reactions and medication errors.
• Provides medication counseling to patients at the pharmacy level.
• Reviews and interprets physician orders properly; screens for incompatibilities, interactions, duplicates, or contraindications.
• Contacts prescriber and / or Nursing personnel regarding any questions on drug orders.
• Responsible for the accurate dispensing and labeling of medication orders.
• Competent using various pharmacy technology products such as electronic health records, automated dispensing machines, unit dosing, and clinical decision support / data mining tools.
• Provides drug information to prescribers per request.

Administrative

Compliance / Safety

Qualifications

Education

Bachelor's Degree in pharmacy from an accredited college of pharmacy- Required

Certification & Licensures

Arizona State Board of Pharmacy license- Required

Experience

One (1) year of experience in a retail or alternate care pharmacy- Preferred

Healthcare is a rapidly changing environment and technology is integrated into almost all aspects of patient care. Computers and other electronic devices are utilized across the organization and throughout each department. Colleagues must have an understanding of computers, and competence in using computers and basic software programs.