Pharmacist - Inpatient - Flagstaff

Responsibilities

• Performs clinical services to optimize drug therapy and documents clinical interventions.
• Provides medication therapy management using medication-related protocols including pharmacokinetics, parenteral nutrition, serum creatinine and other therapeutic drug monitoring by utilizing clinical software and assessing relevant information.
• Advises physicians on use of formulary medications and suggests alternative therapeutic options.
• Provides accurate, clinically relevant drug information to physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals.
• Participates in code arrest response by providing information and assuring availability of medications.
• Identifies, prevents, and investigates potential and real adverse drug reactions and medication errors.
• Provides information required for drug related patient counseling.
• Reviews and interprets physician orders properly; screens for incompatibilities, interactions, duplicates, or contraindications.
• Contacts nursing personnel and/or prescriber regarding any questions on drug orders.
• Dispenses and labels medication orders, including oral medications and IV solutions.
• Competent using various pharmacy technology products such as electronic health records, automated dispensing machines, compounders, unit dosing, tube system, and clinical decision support/data mining tools.
• Assists in maintaining basic drug supply from vendors.
• Exercises applicable legal and professional controls on controlled substances.
• Verifies physical inventory for incoming/outgoing items.
• Documents waste from returned/expired/unusable controlled substances properly.
• Supervises and is responsible for oversight of supportive personnel, licensed and non-licensed, and organizes/directs as needed.
• Reports adverse drug reactions, medication errors, and good catches.
• Aids in training of new staff members including pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in pharmacy from an accredited college of pharmacy - Required
• Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an accredited college of pharmacy - Preferred
• AZ State Board of Pharmacy license that is active and in good standing - Required
• BLS certification - Required
• ACLS certification - Required
• PALS certification - Required for positions working in Emergency and Pediatrics departments