Retail Pharmacist - Outpatient Pharmacy

Baton Rouge General; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

JobRx, Inc. in Louisiana is seeking a pharmacist to fill orders, monitor drug therapies, and provide drug information while supervising support staff.

The role requires maintaining patient profiles and ensuring safe, effective pharmacotherapy in accordance with department policies and HIPAA requirements. Retail or hospital pharmacy experience is preferred; candidate must hold a Louisiana pharmacist license and a BS Pharmacy degree.

Qualifications

• Retail/Hospital experience preferred.
• Current Louisiana license.
• HIPAA knowledge and adherence to regulations.

Responsibilities

• Prepares and dispenses drug orders per physician request.
• Interprets prescriptions and maintains patient medication profiles.
• Monitors drug therapies for interactions and contraindications.
• Maintains documentation, logs and quality improvement activities.
• Ensures timely pharmacy services and supervision of support personnel.

Education

BS Pharmacy

Job description

Description

Job Purpose or Mission: Fills orders for drugs, monitors patient drug therapies and provides drug information; supervises and directs supportive personnel. Job is performed appropriately for the age population served, as defined in the department's scope of service.

Performance Criteria

Criteria A: Everyday Excellence Values

Employee demonstrates Everyday Excellence values in the day-to-day performance of their job.

• Demonstrates courtesy and caring to each other, patients and their families, physicians, and the community.
• Takes initiative in living our Everyday Excellence values and vital signs.
• Takes initiative in identifying customer needs before the customer asks.
• Participates in teamwork willingly and with enthusiasm.
• Demonstrates respect for the dignity and privacy needs of customers through personal action and attention to the environment of care.
• Keeps customers informed, answers customer questions and anticipates information needs of customers.

Criteria B: Corporate Compliance

Employee demonstrates commitment to the Code of Conduct, Conflict of Interest Guidelines, and the GHS Corporate Compliance Guidelines.

• Practices diligence in fulfilling the regulatory and legal requirements of the position and department.
• Maintains accurate and reliable patient/organizational records.
• Maintains professional relationships with appropriate officials; communicates honesty and completely; behaves in a fair and nondiscriminatory manner in all professional contacts.

Criteria C: Personal Achievement

Employee demonstrates initiative in achieving work goals and meeting personal objectives.

• Uses accepted procedures and practices to complete assignments. Uses creative and proactive solutions to achieve objectives even when workload and demands are high.
• Adheres to high moral principles of honesty, loyalty, sincerity, and fairness.
• Upholds the ethical standards of the organization.

Criteria D: Performance Improvement

Employee actively participates in Performance Improvement activities and incorporates quality improvement standards in his/her job performance.

• Optimizes talents, skills, and abilities in achieving excellence in meeting and exceeding customer expectations.
• Initiates or redesigns to continuously improve work processes.
• Contributes ideas and suggestions to improve approaches to work processes.
• Willingly participates in organization and/or department quality initiatives.

Criteria E: Cost Management

Employee demonstrates effective cost management practices.

• Effectively manages time and resources.
• Makes conscious effort to effectively utilize the resources of the organization - material, human, and financial.
• Consistently looks for and uses resource saving processes.

Criteria F: Patient & Employee Safety

Employee actively participates in and demonstrates effective patient and employee safety practices.

• Employee effectively communicates, demonstrates, coordinates and emphasizes patient and employee safety.
• Employee proactively reports errors, potential errors, injuries or potential injuries.
• Employee demonstrates departmental specific patient and employee safety standards at all times.
• Employee demonstrates the use of proper safety techniques, equipment and devices and follows safety policies, procedures and plans.

Job Functions

1. Prepares and dispenses drug orders per physician request according to established policies, procedures and protocols.

   • Interprets prescriptions (verbal and written) and transcribes to computerized patient medication profiles accurately.
   • Maintains accurate, complete pharmacy patient medication profiles.
   • Dispenses pharmaceuticals accurately.
   • Issues controlled substances to patients and maintains records as required by law.

2. Ensures safe, appropriate, cost effective drug therapies for patients according to established policies, procedures and protocols.

   • Monitors drug therapy regimens for contraindications, drug-drug interactions, drug-food interactions, allergies and appropriateness of drug and dose.
   • Detects and reports suspected adverse drug reactions accurately and in a timely manner.
   • Provides clinical consultation and clarification to practitioners, suggests appropriate cost-effective therapeutic alternatives to medical staff as needed.
   • Documents all clinical activities and interventions accurately and completely.
   • Participates in the quality improvement and medication use review activities of the department; collects data, conducts monitors and inspections and maintains logs, records and other documentation as assigned.

3. Contributes to the quality and effective operation of the department through supervision of pharmacy support personnel.

   • Verifies the daily activities of pharmacy technicians and participates in performance appraisal of pharmacy support personnel.
   • Ensures pharmacy services are provided in a timely manner through organization and prioritizing work assignments; works independently with minimal supervision.
   • Completes all assigned medication storage area inspections in a timely manner and identifies and replaces outdated and unusable drugs.
   • Professionally answers the telephone and requests at the window.

4. Maintains competency required for current job title/position.

   • Maintains current pharmacist license; ensures applicable CE records and licensure are maintained in department files.
   • Attends pharmacy staff meetings.
   • Attends orientation, education and training programs; reviews literature and other materials pertinent to the practice of pharmacy.
   • Completes all competency/skills assessment requirements.

5. Performs all other duties as assigned.

Specific Experience Requirements

Retail/Hospital experience preferred.

Specific Educational Requirements

BS Pharmacy.

Special Skill, License and Knowledge Requirements

Current Louisiana license.

HIPAA Requirements

Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable HIPAA regulations appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Medical records without limitation both paper and electronic, patient demographics, lab and radiology results, patient information related to surgery or appointment schedules, medical records related to quality/data, patient financial information and 3rd party billing, information related to patient location, religious beliefs, research information, public health records, employee prescriptions, and/or investigatory information.

Safety Requirements

Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable safety practices appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Incident reporting, handling of wastes, sharps and linen, PPE, exposure control plans, hand washing, environment of care, patient identification, receives meds and/or orders.

Physical Demands

(Reference DOT 074.161-010 - PHARMACIST) - STRENGTH: L - Light Work - Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Sedentary Work. Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible. NOTE: The constant stress and strain of maintaining a production rate pace, especially in an industrial setting, can be and is physically demanding of a worker even though the amount of force exerted is negligible.