Clinical Pharmacist Inpatient

About the role

Join our Inpatient Pharmacy Team at Holy Rosary Hospital in Miles City, Montana, and become part of a close-knit, collaborative team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians dedicated to delivering exceptional patient care. Working alongside physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals, you'll play an integral role in ensuring safe, timely, and effective medication therapy for patients across our 109-bed critical access hospital.

Responsibilities

• Reviews patients' medication order for allergy interactions, duplication of therapy, appropriateness of drug therapy, and drug-drug interaction.
• Makes appropriate evidence-based interventions to optimize medication use.
• Safely, appropriately, and cost-effectively prepares and delivers medications.
• Oversees and/or participates in assuring appropriate medications are prepared and delivered timely to care areas and are stored both securely and appropriate for both stability and effective workflow.
• Provides counseling to patients and promotes quality medication education and adherence.
• Ensures patient is well informed, treated with respect, and receives the highest level of professional service.
• Completes all regulatory and compliance training and ensures documentation of regulatory requirements is clear and complete.
• Is knowledgeable and compliant with state and federal laws, regulations, pharmacy policies, procedures, and standard operating procedures.
• Supervises and directs activities of interns, technicians, and support personnel as required.
• Provides medication related clinical consultation and clarification to other health professionals.
• Takes the initiative to solve problems including, but not limited to, equipment, maintenance, drug availability, staffing issues, and extraordinary patient care concerns.
• Identifies potential areas for improvement including processes that could be streamlined or revised to improve patient satisfaction.
• Identifies potential safety hazards that may create problems for patients and/or staff and takes appropriate actions.
• Participates in departmental meetings, contributing ideas or feedback.
• Supports clinic or hospital and system directives, including clinical, compliance, business operations, standardization, and customer service.
• Supports local and enterprise pharmacy leadership initiatives.

Requirements

• Minimum Doctor of Pharmacy or Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy degree from an accredited institution (education verified).
• Licence to practice pharmacy in the state of practice and dispense controlled substances.
• Current knowledge of state and federal regulations and statutes regarding the practice of pharmacy in the state of practice.
• Effective communication, people management, and project management skills.
• Immunization certification if applicable to practice site needs.

Qualifications

• Previous experience working in an integrated healthcare delivery system.
• Board Certification.
• Health System Residency.

Skills

• Pharmacy.
• Pharmacy Services.
• Medication Management.
• Pharmaceutical Care.
• Project Management.
• Quality Improvement.
• Problem Solving.
• Federal Pharmacy Laws.
• State Pharmacy Laws.

Pay

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. $62.89 - $92.44

Schedule

4 10-hour shifts with weekends and holidays rotations, with on-call.