PRN Retail Pharmacist

Foltmer Drug; Wray (CO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Wrayhospital in Colorado seeks a licensed pharmacist to interpret prescriptions, compound and dispense medications, and serve as a drug information resource for patients and clinicians.

The role includes supervising pharmacy staff, ensuring accurate patient profiles, and adhering to quality, safety, and regulatory standards while staying current with professional developments.

Qualifications

• Provides pharmaceutical care to patients of all ages.
• Assesses dosage variations across newborns, pediatrics, adults, and geriatrics.
• Supervises pharmacy staff including pharmacy technicians and billing clerks.
• Monitors patient profiles for allergies, interactions, and rational therapy.
• Ensures compliance with retail pharmacy policies and procedures.
• Maintains quality control, security of controlled substances, and hazardous waste disposal.
• Participates in 340B, antibiotic stewardship, and pharmacy meetings.
• Keeps current with pharmaceutical knowledge via CE, journals, and societies.

Responsibilities

• Provides pharmaceutical care to patients of all ages.
• Understands dosage variations across age groups and knows where to find information.
• Supervises pharmacy staff: pharmacy technician, billing clerk.
• Monitors postings to patient profiles for allergies and interactions to ensure safe therapy.
• Endorses policies and procedures of the retail pharmacy.
• Maintains procedures for quality control, controlled substances security, and hazardous waste disposal.
• Participates in 340B, antibiotic stewardship, and pharmacy meetings.
• Stays current in the pharmaceutical field through continuing education and journals.

Job description

Interprets physician prescriptions and medication orders. Compounds and dispenses prescribed medications and other pharmaceuticals and related products for patient care by performing related duties. Acts as a drug information resource for the general public and physicians and other healthcare professionals. Position reports to the Chief Clinical Officer.

Essential Duties

• Provides pharmaceutical care to all ages of patients from newborns to the elderly.
• Understands that there are dosage variations between newborn, pediatric, adult and geriatric patients, and knows where to find appropriate information.
• Supervises pharmacy staff: pharmacy technician, billing clerk.
• Monitors all postings onto the patient profiles in the computer system. Ensures accuracy and that drug allergies, drug interactions, duplicate therapy, rational drug therapy and incompatibilities may be realized and better patient care received.
• Endorses policies and procedures of the retail pharmacy.
• Maintains established procedures concerning quality control, security of controlled substances and disposal of hazardous waste.
• Participates in the 340B program, antibiotic stewardship, pharmacy and therapeutics meetings and any other meetings involving pharmacy.
• Stays current in the pharmaceutical field through continuing education, conferences, professional journals and societies.