Clinical Pharmacist - PRN
Overview: We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our team on a PRN basis. The Clinical Pharmacist will play a crucial role in ensuring the safe and effective use of medications within our clinical setting. This position requires strong clinical knowledge, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to delivering high-quality patient care.
DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
- Assist PIC in ordering, dispensing, and accounting for prescription drugs.
- Prepares medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders; detecting therapeutic incompatibilities.
- Dispenses medications per prescription, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals.
- Controls medications by monitoring drug therapies; advising interventions and accountability.
- Completes pharmacy operational requirements by organizing and supervising technicians' workflow; verifying their preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals; verifying order entries, overseeing prescription data entry and processing validation of each script, and inspections.
- Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals and counseling patients on drug therapies.
- Training of pharmacy staff, students, interns, externs, residents, and other health care professionals with pharmaceutical products or information.
- Complies with all state, local, and federal regulations FDA/DEA in addition to ALL Texas State Board of Pharmacy Laws & Regulations; maintains records for controlled substances; removes outdated and damaged drugs from the pharmacy inventory; supervises the work results of support personnel; maintaining current registration; studying existing and new legislation; anticipating legislation; advising management on needed actions and keeping up to date with existing and updated laws and legislation.
- Protects patients and technicians by adhering to infection-control protocols.
- Maintains a safe and clean working environment by complying with facility policy, procedures, rules, and regulations.
- Attends educational workshops; reviews professional publications; establishes personal networks; participates in professional societies. Must stay current on yearly C.E.’s.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
- The pharmacist is to exercise professional judgment communicating all pharmaceutical needs
QUALIFICATIONS
Required
- Analyzing information – Be knowledgeable of and communicate pharmaceutical knowledge with clarity
- Dispensing Medication
- Professional Judgement, Verbal Communication, Productivity, Quality Focus, Attention to Detail
- FDA health regulations/DEA/EPA and Texas State Board Pharmacy Laws & Regulations
- Pharmacology
- Managing Processes, Legal Compliance
REQUIRED EDUCATION/LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS
- B.S. in Pharmacy or Pharm D degree
- Current Pharmacist license to practice in the State of Texas and in good standing with TSBP
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