Clinical Pharmacologist

Rainbow Hospitals Ltd; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Rainbow Hospitals Ltd in Bengaluru is seeking a Pharmacist with a PharmD to oversee inpatient medication administration, safety, and protocol adherence. You will conduct audits, monitor drug interactions, and guide physicians on optimizing therapy to minimize drug-related problems.

The role involves collaboration with medical teams, support for medication storage, and responding to queries from staff. 0–2 years of experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• PharmD degree required or equivalent.
• 0-2 years of experience in hospital pharmacovigilance or medication management.
• Knowledge of drug safety, interactions and protocol adherence.

Responsibilities

• Take rounds in inpatient units to monitor drug administration and interactions.
• Perform internal audits to ensure quality of patient care regarding medication usage.
• Monitor medication errors across requisition, dispensing, administration and documentation.
• Evaluate root cause analysis with corrective and preventive actions for errors.
• Audit prescriptions to ensure medicines are appropriate, safe and effective; advise doctors.
• Monitor storage of medications including high risk and cold chain items.
• Answer queries from medical, nursing and pharmacy staff about medication management.
• Collaborate with medical team to prepare/revise medication protocols and guidelines.

Skills

Drug safety

Pharmacology

Audit & compliance

Education

PharmD

Tools

Medication management system

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Taking rounds in all inpatient units to monitor drug administration, prescription and drug interactions.
• Taking various internal audits to ensure quality of patient care with respect to medication usage
• Monitor medication errors (requisition, dispensing, administration, prescription and documentation).
• Evaluating root cause analysis with corrective and preventive actions of medication errors.
• Audit the prescription from patients case file to check if the medicines of individual patients are appropriate, safe and effective and give recommendation to doctors on how to resolve or minimize any drug related problems.
• Monitoring storage of medications across the hospital like high alert medications, concentrated electrolytes, cold chain medications etc.
• Answer queries from medical, nursing and pharmacy staff about medication management.

Collaborate with medical team to prepare/revise medication treatment protocols and guidelines as and when needed.

Preferred candidate profile

PharmD

0-2 years experience