Clinical Pharmacist

HCA Florida North Florida Hospital; Gainesville (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Wellbeing support

Paid time off

401(k) match

Tuition assistance

Fertility and family building support

Job summary

HCA Florida North Florida Hospital in Gainesville seeks a Clinical Pharmacist to optimize patient therapy, resolve drug-related problems, and provide drug information to patients and the care team.

The role includes preparing and dispensing medications, interpreting orders, maintaining patient profiles, and handling chemotherapy dosing, sterile products, and controlled substances in a fast-paced environment. Extensive patient care and collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• Pharmacist qualification required
• Masters Degree or Bachelors Degree required

Responsibilities

• Prepares and dispenses medication orders per physician request.
• Interprets medication orders and transcribes to patient profiles.
• Maintains accurate patient medication profiles.
• Calculates chemotherapy and pediatric doses; performs double checks.
• Accurately compounds and dispenses medications.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy

Drug information

Patient interaction

Medication safety

Education

Masters Degree or Bachelors Degree

Job description

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized.

Clinical Pharmacist

Job Summary and Qualifications

Identifies, resolves, and prevents drug-related problems. Recommends and monitors patient drug therapy and provides drug information. Interacts with patients, family, and other health care providers as appropriate to assure continuity of services and to achieve desired patient outcomes through safe, timely, cost-effective drug therapy. Participates in formal and informal activities that enhance professional development, training of students and residents, and clinical research.

Job Specific Duties

1. Prepares and dispenses medication orders per physician request according to established policies, procedures, and protocols.
2. Interprets medication orders (verbal and written) and transcribes to computerized patient medication profiles accurately.
3. Maintains accurate, complete patient medication profiles.
4. Calculates chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, pediatric doses and continuous infusions accurately. Performs required double checks on chemotherapy and pediatric dosing.
5. Accurately compounds and dispenses medications.
6. Labeling follows departmental procedures
7. Products are bar-coded according to departmental procedures
8. Identifies and selects specific dosage forms as appropriate for all ages of patients served.
9. Assures compliance with organizational policy regarding home medication, self-administration, and bedside storage of medications
10. Controlled substances:
    • Resolves discrepancies and appropriately notifies pharmacy and hospital administration for unresolved discrepancies or suspected diversion.
    • Issue controlled substance to patient care areas and maintains records as required by law.
    • Knowledgeable of the process and/or correctly and accurately receives schedule II controlled drugs and oversees the pharmacy technician receiving all controlled substances.
11. Sterile products:
    • Chemotherapy/hazardous drugs
    • Parenteral nutrition (TPN)
    • Small and large volume parenterals
    • Other sterile products such as eye drops and irrigation solutions
    • Cleans, operates and maintains the laminar air flow and hoods and biological safety cabinet according to departmental procedures
    • Assures routine cleaning of room and surfaces following departmental procedures
    • Wears appropriate garb and washes hands according to departmental procedures
    • Demonstrates aseptic technique and successfully passes testing for process validation (media fill test)
    • Disposes of sharps and hazardous waste according to organizational procedures
    • Prepares sterile products according to departmental procedures
    • Accurately dispenses and labels sterile products
12. Crash carts and emergency medications:
    • Assures refill procedures are accurate and completed prior to end of shift and as needed on evening and night shifts. Required documentation is accurately completed.
    • Assures that new crash carts are delivered within 15 minutes of code notification.
13. Investigational medication record keeping and dispensing follows the protocol and departmental procedures

What qualifications you will need:

• Pharmacist
• Masters Degree, or Bachelors Degree

No Travel Required

No experience Required Years of Experience

Benefits

HCA Florida North Florida Hospital, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Florida North Florida Hospital is a 523-bed, full-service medical and surgical acute care center. For over 49 years, we have served North Central Florida. We offer comprehensive cardiovascular care, oncology, orthopedics, and neurosciences. We offer minimally-invasive laparoscopic and robotic surgery, weight loss surgery and treatment. Other services that we provide include women's health and wound therapy. We are fully accredited by the Joint Commission and certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center. Our hospital has an Accredited Chest Pain Center by ACC (American College of Cardiology) and is designated as a Blue Distinction Center for Spine Surgery and Bariatric Surgery. We are committed to patient safety and quality of care. We have received the highest scores available in recognition of this commitment.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

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