Inpatient Pharmacist – Per Diem/PRN

KAISER; Seattle (WA); Vor Ort; USD 120.000 - 170.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Kaiser Permanente in Seattle seeks a pharmacist to ensure safe, effective, and optimal medication therapy while empowering patients and prescribers with clear information. The role emphasizes coordination with the patient care plan and maintaining high standards of dispensing accuracy.

The pharmacist will interpret prescriptions, counsel patients, oversee daily workflow, and uphold cash handling and compliance protocols to ensure efficient pharmacy operations.

Aufgaben

• Interpreting prescription orders, counseling patients, and reporting safety concerns to prevent unusual occurrences.
• Providing medication expertise and evidence-based recommendations to empower patients and prescribers in medication therapy.
• Supervising pharmacy staff and interns, ensuring proper dispensing, cash handling, and compliance with Kaiser Permanente standards.

Jobbeschreibung

Job Summary:

Pharmacists at Kaiser Permanente ensure that patients receive safe, effective, and optimal medication therapy while providing expertise and information to empower patients and prescribers to make informed choices in medication therapy. Pharmacists ensure that pharmacy care is coordinated with the patient care plan.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Ensures that patients receive safe, effective, and optimal medication therapy by: Interpreting prescription orders; counseling patients using clear and effective communication skills and providing written information as necessary; ensuring patient safety by identifying opportunities to prevent unusual occurrences; consistently performing safety checks when dispensing medications; taking appropriate steps to resolve and report unusual occurrences.
• Provides medication expertise and information that empowers patients and prescribers to make informed choices in medication therapy by: by using appropriate evidence-based medicine references to form recommendations to patients and providers; clearly communicating rationale around medication therapy selection; evaluating clinical appropriateness of medication therapy; staying current on clinical initiatives and priorities.
• Ensure efficient and effective pharmacy process workflow and cash handling by: supervising pharmacy assistants, technicians, interns and externs in all aspects of daily pharmacy workflow including the appropriate processing and releasing of prescriptions and customer service; ensuring the proper and safe storage of medications and keep accurate records of such; having working knowledge and competency with cashiering processes and procedures; adhering to Kaiser Permanente Cash Security and Compliance standards.