Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

About the Role

We have an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to join HCA Florida Osceola Hospital, part of HCA Healthcare, the nation's leading provider of healthcare services. This role focuses on critical care and involves coordinating and assisting with the development, implementation, and maintenance of clinical pharmacy programs to meet the needs of the patient population and community.

Responsibilities

• Reviews medication orders and quality of technicians' work to ensure appropriateness of drugs ordered, dosage, route, and interactions.
• Adjusts medication dosage/schedule as appropriate for patient condition per policy.
• Ensures medications are safely dispensed to patients in accordance with age-specific guidelines.
• Follows appropriate procedures for the sterile preparation of IV admixtures in compliance with USP 797 standards.
• Participates in the evaluation and analysis of clinical data, medication use, and drug/drug class monograph development in support of clinical toolkit development.
• Provides oversight of pharmacy distribution activities including order receipt, product storage, controlled substance process, dispensing, and other distributional functions.
• Closely monitors narcotic transactions by checking all controlled substances dispensed and reconciles the quantity/type of narcotics leaving the pharmacy.
• Promptly signs in narcotics received from the wholesaler; checks against the pharmacy copy of the DEA 222 form and the wholesaler's invoices.
• Assists the department in addressing physician consults as needed.
• Provides timely retrieval of reliable drug information from available sources.
• Contributes to a culture of patient-centered care by ensuring a quiet healing environment.
• Communicates and interacts with patients, families, and others in a caring, empathetic, courteous, and respectful manner.
• Communicates effectively and works with physicians and/or other members of the interdisciplinary team in meeting patient needs.
• Receives, interprets, and implements physician orders accurately and in a courteous manner.
• Consults resources in clarifying unfamiliar or questionable orders.

Requirements

• Graduate of a college of Pharmacy accredited by the American Council on Pharmacy Education (BS or Pharm.D degree).
• Experience as a Pharmacist in an acute-care hospital setting or general pharmacy practice residency preferred.
• Current Florida Pharmacist License or license eligible.
• Board certification preferred.

Skills

• Customer service abilities including effective listening skills.
• Critical thinking skills, decisive judgment, and the ability to work with minimal supervision in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

HCA Florida Osceola Hospital offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career, and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health, and telemedicine services.
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services.
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage, and leaves of absence.
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support, and financial wellbeing counseling.
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships, and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing.
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection, and consumer discounts.

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

About the Organization

HCA Florida Osceola Hospital is a 404-bed tertiary care hospital accredited by the Joint Commission and designated as a Level II Trauma Center. We are a teaching hospital in collaboration with UCF College of Medicine. Our hospital is centrally located in Kissimmee, minutes from Orlando, St. Cloud, Celebration, and Poinciana.

We provide services including Emergency Care, Trauma Care, Pediatric ER, Heart & Vascular Institute, and Comprehensive Stroke Center. Other services include The Baby Suites Maternity Care, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Level II, Women’s Services, Behavioral Health, Orthopedics & Spine, and a Graduate Medical Education Program. We also serve the community with our freestanding Emergency Department at Hunter’s Creek ER.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.