Outpatient Pharmacist PRN Float

About the role

The Pharmacist position at Sanford Health involves reviewing prescriptions, providing medication counseling, overseeing pharmacy operations, and ensuring compliance with pharmacy regulations across retail and institutional settings.

Responsibilities

• Review prescriptions to assure accuracy, ascertain needed ingredients, and evaluate suitability.
• Provide information and advice regarding drug interactions, side effects, dosage, and proper medication storage.
• In a retail/community pharmacy setting: review, interpret, and dispense both prescription and non‑prescription medication to patients.
• Respond to prescription issues and advise providers on selection, dosage, interaction, and side effects of medications.
• Counsel patients on medication prescription: proper administration, possible side effects, expected response, storage, and answer any questions.
• Monitor the health and progress of patients in response to drug therapy.
• Learn and utilize new technology as the profession of pharmacy evolves.
• Provide oversight and clinical supervision for pharmacy services and pharmacy support personnel.
• In a medical center or institutional setting: review and interpret provider orders, provide drug information, assist in problem solving, and provide other aspects of pharmaceutical care.
• Duties may include unit dose dispensing, IV admixtures, outpatient prescriptions, navigating the electronic medical record, compounding, and working with automated dispensing devices.
• Utilize appropriate age‑related patient information to assess pharmaceutical needs for neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
• Follow all established regulations and standards that govern the practice of pharmacy.
• May be required to act as a shift supervisor under direct or indirect supervision by department managers.
• Demonstrate good written and verbal communication skills.
• Pharmacy services may involve acute care surgery, neurology, cardiology, pediatrics, oncology, infusion services, intensive care, general medicine, dialysis, transplant, antimicrobial stewardship, and medication reconciliation.
• May include decentralized clinical functions such as direct patient interaction/interdisciplinary team rounding, chart reviews, customer or patient counseling, and collecting accurate medication lists.
• May include centralized clinical functions such as checking and dispensing medications and overseeing the clinical functions of the IV room.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy.
• Thorough knowledge of drugs and their actions; knowledge of state and local regulations.
• Hospital experience or residency preferred (for medical center/institutional setting).
• License must be in good standing by the State Board of Pharmacy in the state(s) of practice and/or possess multi‑state licensure privileges as required by the position.

Pay

Salary Range: $61.00 - $87.50

Schedule

Shift: Day; Job Schedule: PRN; Weekly Hours: Varies