Pharmacist- Evening (Per Diem) - Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center

Atlantic Health; Summit (NJ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlantic Health is seeking a Pharmacist to provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care across inpatient and outpatient settings in Summit, NJ. You will review and verify medication orders, monitor outcomes, and offer clinical recommendations to the healthcare team.

You will collaborate with physicians, nurses, and other professionals to optimize care, participate in quality initiatives, and educate patients and staff while ensuring compliance with policies and regulatory guidelines.

Qualifications

• Review patient profiles to assure safe and effective medication therapy.
• Dispense medications and monitor drug safety per guidelines and patient-specific criteria.
• Oversee technician practice/activities per regulatory requirements.
• Participate in clinical services such as stewardship, cost-efficiency, and patient experience.
• Adhere to safety requirements in handling sterile and non-sterile medications (USP 797/800, ASHP, NIOSH).
• Educate patients, staff, and trainees, and mentor other pharmacists and technicians.

Responsibilities

• Review and verify medication orders.
• Dispense medications and monitor for safety.
• Collaborate with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.
• Participate in quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.
• Provide education to patients, staff, and trainees.
• Mentor other pharmacists and technicians.
• Ensure continuity of pharmaceutical care between shifts.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy

Medication safety

Patient education

Regulatory compliance

Sterile compounding

Job description

The Pharmacist provides comprehensive pharmaceutical care to patients across inpatient and outpatient settings, ensuring safe, effective, and evidence-based medication therapy. This role includes reviewing and verifying medication orders, monitoring therapeutic outcomes, and providing clinical recommendations to the healthcare team. The pharmacist collaborates with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to optimize patient care, participates in quality improvement and patient safety initiatives, and ensures compliance with hospital, departmental, and regulatory policies. Additionally, the pharmacist may provide education to patients, staff, and trainees, contributing to the overall advancement of pharmacy practice within the hospital.

• Review patient profiles to assure safe and effective medication therapy
• Responsible for dispensing of medications, monitoring and reporting drug safety based on current clinical and institutional guidelines, as well as patient-specific criteria
• Oversees technician practice/activities as per regulatory requirements.
• Responsible for mediation storage and documentation
• Actively participates in clinical services (e.g., stewardships, cost-effective, patient experience)
• Adheres to safety requirements in the handling and preparation of sterile and non-sterile medications and other hazardous agents (e.g., oncology) according to current guidelines (USP 797, USP 800, ASHP, NIOSH)
• Communicates effectively and appropriately with healthcare providers and caregivers and assures continuity of pharmaceutical care between shifts and among team members
• Participates in the training, education and mentoring of other pharmacists and technicians

Participates in quality, safety and other project work related to medication management