Overnight Pharmacist - 3rd Shift - 7on/7off

Responsibilities

• Prepares and assists the Pharmacy team in the preparation of medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders; weighing, measuring and mixing ingredients; detecting therapeutic incompatibilities.
• Dispenses medication by planning, implementing or maintaining procedures for mixing, packaging, or labeling pharmaceuticals, according to policy and legal requirements to ensure quality, security and proper disposal.
• Assesses the identity, strength or purity of medications.
• Aids in the maintenance of records, such as pharmacy files, patient profiles, charge system files and inventories, narcotics, or controlled drugs.
• Maintains records for controlled substances; removes outdated and damaged drugs from the pharmacy inventory, follows disposal of drugs per drug disposal guidelines.
• Monitors drug therapies; advises interventions.
• Verifies order entries; organizes and directs technicians’ work flow; verifies their preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals; verifies order entries.
• Utilizes computer systems to screen for drug interactions, therapeutic duplication, drug-disease contradictions, drug allergies, geriatric precautions, drug-food precautions and adult min-max dose checking.
• Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals; counsels patents on drug therapies.
• Develops staff pharmacological knowledge by participating in clinical programs; training pharmacy staff, interns, residents and health care professionals.
• Protects patients and technicians by adhering to infection-control protocols.
• Completes pharmacy operational requirements by managing the workflow processes which may include pharmacist verification, labeling/packaging, quality assurance with barcode verification and drug images and delivery with barcode tote checking.
• Meets Expectations of Excellence for position.
• Supports campuses, departmental goals and the overall objectives of the Company.
• Complies with all laws, regulations and standards of ethical conduct.
• Performs all job duties with a friendly positive and team-oriented approach.
• Maintains required licenses or certifications in good standing with the State.
• Complies with all Company policies, procedures, rules and standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science (B. S.) or Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE).
• Licenses/Certifications: North American Pharmacist Licensure Exam (NAPLEX), Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Exam (MPJE), State-specific license where required.
• Experience: Five (5) years’ experience in a pharmacy environment preferred. Healthcare, senior living industry or long-term care environment preferred.
• Exemplary computer skills that include knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite of products.
• CB103