Pharmacist: Inpatient Pharmacy

About the role

The Pharmacist ensures safe, effective, appropriate drug therapy for all patients.

Responsibilities

• Reviews each new prescription against patient profile information for completeness, allergy conflicts, reasonableness of dose, duplicate drug therapy, and clinically significant drug reactions.
• Contacts and confers with physician in a manner that results in an effective outcome when drug therapy questions, irregularities, or problems are encountered; documentation of the resolution of any inappropriate orders is recorded.
• Provides written and verbal patient counseling.
• Maintains all legally required and departmentally required records including controlled substances.
• Consistently observes and supervises the work performance of technical staff.
• Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care for the physical, psychological, social, educational, and safety needs of the patients served regardless of age.

Requirements

• Experience in pharmacy is required; home care pharmacy or pediatrics is preferred.
• Experience in JCAHO accreditation is preferred.
• Experience working with all levels within an organization is required.
• Experience in healthcare is preferred.
• Proficiency in MS Office [Outlook, Excel, Word] or similar software is required.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy is required; Master's degree is preferred. Maintains 20 hours of Continuing Education per year.
• Certification: Current licensure by the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy is required.
• Years of relevant experience: 5 to 7 years is preferred.
• Years of experience supervising: None.

Skills

• Possesses a valid State driver's license and ability to obtain and maintain insurability as determined by the ACH insurance carrier's requirements.
• An annual physical is required to be completed with the Akron Children's Hospital Employee Health Department.

Benefits

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