Pharmacist
Hardin Medical Center
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Job summary
Hardin Medical Center in Savannah, TN seeks a Pharmacist under the Director of Pharmacy to perform clinical and professional functions related to pharmacotherapy across inpatient, outpatient, retail, and long-term care settings.
This nonexempt, hourly position requires a BSPharm or PharmD, Tennessee license, and at least 1 year hospital pharmacy experience; oncology experience preferred.
Qualifications
- BSPharm or PharmD from an accredited college of pharmacy.
- Current license to practice pharmacy by the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy.
- One year of hospital pharmacy experience preferred, oncology experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Prepares, fills, compounds, and verifies medication orders.
- Checks incoming shipments and arranges storage.
- Manages narcotic inventory and related records.
- Charges patients' medications as applicable.
- Fills IV solutions and chemotherapy as required.
- Oversees drug distribution and automated dispensing systems.
Skills
Education
Job description
FLSA Employment Status: Nonexempt/Hourly
Under the direction of the Director of Pharmacy, performs clinical and professional functions related to pharmacotherapy in the inpatient, outpatient, retail, and long-term care settings
Reports to the Director of Pharmacy
May supervise and train pharmacy technicians
Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (BSPharm) or Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) from an accredited college of pharmacy
One (1) year of previous hospital pharmacy experience preferred, prior oncology experience preferred
Current license to practice pharmacy by the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy
- Mission, Vision
- Core Values/Standards of Conduct
- AIDET/Organizational Expectations
- Safety
- Quality
- Flexibility
- Customer Service
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Finance
- Abuse and Neglect of Adult Patient
- Abuse and Neglect of Pediatric Patient
- Acute Coronary Syndrome/Chest Pain Protocols
- Biohazard Waste
- CC Hand Hygiene
- Pharmacy clinical problem solving, judgment, and decision making
- General pharmacy practice
- Ambulatory pharmacy
- Specialty pharmacy
- Long-term care pharmacy
- Retail pharmacy
- Oncology pharmacy services
- Reimbursement
- Health informatics
- Hospital pharmacy
- Lean healthcare
- Prepares, fills, compounds, and/or checks/verifies medication orders by physicians and other authorized healthcare providers
- Checks incoming shipments and arranges for their storage
- Assesses and maintains narcotic inventory and other records such as inventory, prescriptions, and quality assurance
- Charges patients' medications as applicable
- Fills patient-specific and batch intravenous solutions and chemotherapy
- Responsible for providing oversight for drug distribution, expired medications, and the filling of automated dispensing cabinets, trays for emergency use, and the correct filling of long-term care facility medication carts
- Provides clinical monitoring for patients in the hospital, affiliated clinics, and long-term care setting (when applicable), providing such services as renal dosing adjustments, intravenous to oral suggestions when feasible, interaction checking, monitoring of antimicrobials, assessment of "prn" orders, duplicate orders, and other monitoring as applicable
- Available to other hospital personnel and the medical staff to answer questions and provide drug information
- Verifies orders for accuracy and completeness in the electronic medical record
- Analyzes prescribing trends to monitor patient compliance and to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions
- Dispenses and reviews prescriptions to ensure accuracy and compliance with professional, state and federal regulatory requirements
- Educates patient on medication use, storage, and side effects as appropriate
- Solicits information from patients regarding past and current medication to prevent drug interactions
May collaborate with other health care professionals to plan, monitor, review, and evaluate patient effectiveness.
- This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, talk, and hear. The employee must occasionally lift or move office products and supplies up to approximately 20 pounds.
- Must be able to see with corrective eye wear
- Must be able to hear clearly with assistance
- May be exposed to infectious and contagious diseases
- May be in contact with patients under a variety of circumstances
- Able to handle emergency or crisis situations
- May be occasionally subject to irregular work hours
- May be required to wear protective equipment as necessary
- Ability to pass all required health and other screening tests including random and reasonable suspicion drug
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Continuously (67% to 100%)
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