PHARMACIST (RETAIL)- FT

Full time, 40 hours/week. Monday through Friday and every third weekend. 

GENERAL SUMMARY

Current licensure in IL with previous retail pharmacy experience preferred but not mandatory for hiring. Competitive salary and full benefit package.  Continuing education included.  Must have excellent communication skills.  This role encompasses dispensing medications accurately, providing professional advice on health and wellness, and ensuring regulatory compliance; dedicated to enhancing patient outcomes through counseling, education, and excellent customer service. A staff pharmacists, also, supervises and directs supportive personnel.

Staff pharmacists fill orders for drugs, monitor patient drug therapies and provide drug information.  Staff pharmacists supervise and direct supportive personnel. In the absence of the pharmacy manager, a staff pharmacist may be required to assume the essential responsibilities and perform the duties of the pharmacy manager.

GIBSON AREA HOSPITAL & HEALTH SERVICES MISSION STATEMENT

To provide personalized, professional healthcare services to the residents of the Communities we serve.

PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

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

2.    Interprets medication orders (verbal and written) and transcribes to computerized patient medication profiles accurately; maintains accurate, complete patient medication profiles.

3.    Prepares and dispenses pharmaceuticals, including sterile, chemotherapy, and parenteral nutrition preparations safely and +accurately using appropriate technique.

4.    Issues controlled substances to patient care areas and maintains records as required by law.

5.    Ensures safe, appropriate, cost-effective medication therapies for patients according to established policies, procedures, and protocols.

6.    Monitors drug therapy regimens for contraindications, drug-drug interactions, drug-food interactions, drug-laboratory test interactions, allergies, appropriateness of drug and dose, and therapeutic duplications.

7.    Assists with pharmacokinetics consult service and drug dosing per organizational protocol.

8.    Reviews/interprets culture and susceptibility data for antibiotic appropriateness and recommends changes, as needed.

9.    Reads, extracts, and interprets information in patient charts accurately.

10.    Detects and reports suspected adverse drug reactions and medication errors accurately and in a timely manner.

11.    Sustains the formulary by minimizing non-formulary procurements, utilizing therapeutic substitution protocols, and promoting rational medication therapy selection.

12.    Provides clinical consultation and clarification to practitioners; recommends evidence-based medication therapy regimens and monitoring plans; and suggests appropriate, cost-effective therapeutic alternatives to medical staff as needed.

13.    Provides accurate, adequate, and timely drug information to the professional staff.

14.    Provides drug information to patients and their families.

15.    Documents all clinical activities and interventions accurately and completely.

16.    Participates in the quality improvement and medication- use review activities of the department; collects data; conducts quality monitors and inspections; and maintains logs, records, and other documentation as assigned.

17.    Participates in the development and presentation of orientation, education, and training programs to the pharmacy, medical, nursing, and other staffs.

18.     Contributes to the quality and effective operation of the department.

19.    Supervises and directs pharmacy support personnel; verifies the daily activities of pharmacy technicians; and participates in the performance appraisal of pharmacy support personnel.

20.    Works independently with minimal supervision; organizes and prioritizes work assignments; and ensures pharmacy services are provided in a timely manner.
21.    Completes and documents inspections of all assigned medication storage areas at least monthly; identifies and replaces outdated and unusable drugs.

22.    Answers the telephone, identifying self and department; directs calls to appropriate personnel; and answers requests at the window.

23.    Keeps pharmacy areas and equipme