Job Summary
Provides prescribed medications, drugs, and other pharmaceuticals and compounds medications, according to professional standards and practices.
Education
Job Duties
- Evaluates medications orders or prescriptions, accurately and safely compounds medications in age appropriate and acceptable dosage forms, appropriately packages and dispenses pre-manufactured dosage forms.*
- Manages systems for storage, preparation and dispensing of medicinal agents using appropriate techniques and following the health systems policies; effectively oversees work of technical personnel who may be involved with these processes.*
- Provides education or in-services on rational medication therapy and medication procedures effectively to health care professionals, students, patients, and the public.*
- Retrieves, analyzes, evaluates, and interprets scientific literature in order to provide accurate, concise, applicable and timely drug information response to health professionals.*
- Designs, implements, monitors, evaluates and intervenes in patient pharmacotherapy to ensure effective, safe and economical patient care.*
- Applies clinical pharmacokinetic data to design effective, safe, and economical therapeutic medication regiments.*
- Enhances skill sets through continuing education. Manages own professional practice including time, professional ethics, attendance and punctuality and customer focus.*
- 8. Participates in implementing goals and objectives, and policies and procedures for the department.*
• All other job duties as assigned.
Job Qualifications
- Graduate of ACPE accredited school of pharmacy at a college or university
- Licensed by the State Board of Pharmacy
- One year experience in hospital pharmacy
- Knowledge of pathophysiology, interpretation of diagnostic criteria, pharmacokinetics and pharmacotherapeutics preferred
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Proficiency with PCs and word processing and spreadsheet applications
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Must be accurate and prompt
- Must maintain total confidentiality of all patient records