Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Day Shift

Description:

Leads the process that oversees and ensures a safe and efficient drug distribution system for patients, including clinical functions.

• Performs duties of pharmacist in charge.
• Serves as a resource to others in area of responsibility and expertise.
• Troubleshoots and addresses questions from staff and others in completing daily activities. Either direct next steps or resolves.
• Familiar with regulatory requirements and assists with/coordinates the preparation for inspections by various regulatory agencies.
• Monitors and assures regulatory and system compliance by all personnel.
• Communicates promptly to manager departmental updates and reports problems on an ongoing basis.
• Follows-up with manager as appropriate if pattern identified or procedural change indicated.
• Contributes to divisional policy and procedural revisions and maintains department specific policies and procedures.
• Coordinates staff orientation, training and development.
• Ensures that new employees are oriented to department and job and that initial competency is assessed and documented.
• Provides ongoing training on equipment and procedural changes.
• Provides feedback and performs assigned performance evaluations/competencies.
• Provides feedback on performance for all pharmacy personnel.
• Monitors improvement plans for employees.
• Performs assigned performance evaluations/competencies annually.
• Contributes to Quality Assurance Program that is consistent with overall WFH-IA quality plan.
• Assists in monitoring Quality Improvement Plan.
• Documents and reports unsafe conditions.
• Follows-up on incident reports and communicates with supervisor.
• Develops, monitors, documents and reports site-specific quality plan.
• Supervises the day-to-day operations of the pharmacy.
• Supervises the work of pharmacy supportive staff.
• Monitors the day-to-day management and acquisition of medications and supplies.
• Facilitates problem solving of pharmacy issues.
• Assists with department/division quality improvement activities.
• Provides feedback on performance for all pharmacy personnel. • Ensures daily and weekly computer maintenance functions performed (inpatient as assigned).
• Monitors, reviews, interprets and dispenses medication orders in accordance with professional and legal standards and practices.
• Interprets medication and treatment orders in relation to patient’s health status.
• Maintains a computerized patient profile system in order to monitor patients’ medication therapy for safety and effectiveness.
• Schedules the administration of medications to provide optimal effect.
• Evaluates prospectively patient medication records for DUR and DUE.
• Compounds/supervises the compounding of prescriptions and/or intravenous admixtures..
• Takes appropriate action in response to computer-identified interactions.
• Demonstrates an understanding of reimbursement guidelines and issues and incorporates them appropriately into medication dispensing activities.
• Ensures current billing of patient medications.
• Checks all medication selections prior to dispensing to patient.
• Develops and implements clinical pharmacy activities using outcome based guidelines and WFH-IA policy.
• Monitors patient response to medications and effectiveness of therapy.
• Evaluates patient response to medications and effectiveness of therapy to include diagnostic/lab results.
• Communicates with and makes recommendations to physicians and other health team members regarding patient response, effectiveness of therapy and/or dosing levels and monitors as appropriate.
• Monitors and/or doses medications and participates in patient rounds as requested by physicians.
• Operates the clinical pharmacy programs within the protocols and guidelines.
• Establishes and maintains a professional relationship with the patient.
• Intervenes on behalf of the patient as appropriate to access appropriate care within the health system.
• Ensures the patient has all the supplies, information, knowledge and skills to carry out the drug therapy plan.
• Demonstrates competency in performing required lab and diagnostic testing as outlined by clinic protocols.
• Documents patient assessment, plan of care, interventions and evaluation of plan accurately and legibly.
• Ensures completion of all documentation required by regulatory agencies and corporate policy.
• Provides clinical and drug information support to healthcare professionals and patients.
• Provides clinical medication information to medical and nursing staff.
• Provides a co