FSED Pharmacist

About the role

TriStar Skyline Medical Center, part of HCA Healthcare, is a 350+ bed facility and Tennessee's first comprehensive stroke center, a state‑designated Level 1 Trauma Center and a national leader in neuroscience. The center features three helipads, new ICU and Medical/Surgical floors, burn care services, a CARF‑accredited Inpatient Rehabilitation program, and an Accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI, providing emergency heart care to the North Nashville community. HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times and has invested an estimated $3.7 billion in charitable care, uninsured discounts and other uncompensated expenses. As Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. noted, “Bricks and mortar do not make a hospital. People do.”

Responsibilities

• Performs or supervises the proper compounding, preparation, labeling and dispensing of medication prescriptions, in accordance with state and federal regulations and hospital policies and procedures.
• Reviews all physician orders for appropriateness of medication orders and performs or supervises the compounding, preparation, labeling, and dispensing of these medications in accordance with state and federal regulations and hospital policies and procedures.
• Influences others through facts and sound rationale in a way that encourages them to work toward hospital goals.
• Provides clinical supervision as needed.
• Supervises, assists, and helps train pharmacy technicians and students in all functions performed.
• Assists the pharmacy director in maintaining security of the pharmacy and scheduled drug control throughout the hospital.
• Completes, reviews, and maintains all written records and computer generated records.
• Consults with physicians, nurses, and other clinicians to provide drug information, perform consults, or provide other clinical services.
• Provides clinical pharmacy and/or distributive services as defined and requested by the Clinical Manager and DOP.
• Assists the DOP in drug procurement, receiving, storage, inventory control and floor stock control.
• Accurately performs clinical drug monitoring and assists physicians in calculating patient‑specific dosing based on creatinine clearance values, drug or lab levels, and physician requests.
• Ongoing monitoring of high‑risk areas, i.e., high‑risk medications.
• Familiar with the operation of the department.
• Must be able to function in an appropriate staff capacity, as scheduling and patient need demands.
• Collaborates with physicians, nurses, special service technicians, and the patient to provide ongoing monitoring of medication effects on the patient, including assessment of potential adverse events.
• Assists the Director of Pharmacy by providing education to physicians, nursing, pharmacy personnel, and to support nursing and patient education efforts toward patient teaching.