Staff Pharmacist PRN, Central Pharmacy, Variable Shifts

JOB DESCRIPTION: This pharmacist position will work closely with technicians, nurses, and medical staff to provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care to acute care areas. The pharmacist will be responsible for order verification, product checking, overall workflow management of the pharmacy, oversight of technical staff, serving as a drug information resource for patients, nurses, and medical staff, and providing clinical pharmacy services to the patients served. This individual will be cross-trained to multiple inpatient pharmacy areas on multiple shifts.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy with a B.S. in Pharmacy or Pharm. D. degree is required.
• Completion of a residency and/or equivalent experience in clinical pharmacy is preferred.

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION: 

• Active Registration with North Carolina Board of Pharmacy required.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 1. Processes medication orders and prescriptions ordered by physicians or nurses for patients. 2. Supervises the work of technicians to ensure that correct medications are provided for patients on time, and support staff is fully utilized to meet area needs. 3. Provides pharmaceutical care to patients to achieve optimal therapeutic outcomes. 4. Participates in the team approach to quality improvement to support the Pharmacy Department's commitment to the philosophy and principles of Total Quality. 5. Updates knowledge and skills of self and other health care professionals to maintain, improve and document competency. 6. Documents activities to provide information needed to meet standards, regulations, laws and/or other administrative requirements. 7. Participates in planning by establishing personal goals to support quality improvement efforts and contribute to the achievement of departmental objectives. 8. Provides age/developmental appropriate care in accordance with Age/Development Specific Guidelines for the age groups served when participating in patient care. 9. Adheres to the general hospital standards to promote a cooperative work environment by utilizing communication skills, interpersonal relationships and team building.

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Ability to communicate on a professional level with physicians, nurses and other professional staff when discussing drugs and drug related problems.
• Strong oral and written communication.
• Contact with patients, family members, visitors, coworkers and medical staff under a wide variety of circumstances.
• Excellent customer service skills. 
• Must demonstrate a focus and understanding of patient medication needs across the various phases of care.
• Must possess a customer focus and demonstrate a commitment to high quality patient care and ongoing learning and development.
• Should have good interpersonal, decision making, problem solving and supervisory skills.
• This individual must demonstrate a positive attitude and a commitment to teamwork.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Potential exposure to infections and contagious diseases.
• Handles emergency or crisis situations.
• Possible exposure to latex.
• Possible exposure to cytotoxic (chemotherapeutic) agents.
• Requires judgment/action that could result in death of patients.
• Noise generated from telephones, computers/printers, hood and verbal communication.
• Possible exposure to the risk of bloodborne and/or airborne pathogens.
• Subject to many interruptions.
• Pressure due to multiple demands.
• Subject to changes in work schedules and areas to meet customer/department needs.

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health,