Job Description
Description Retail Pharmacist - Independent Pharmacy Eastern Carolina Medical Center About the Job Looking for a Staff Pharmacist for an independent pharmacy located inside of a Eastern Carolina Medical Center in Benson, NC. We need someone who has Pioneer Rx experience or is tech savvy to learn a new system. Job Responsibilities: Pharmacy Operations - Actively performs all pharmacist functions, actively participates in established standard work parameters and maintains functional proficiency in and actively provides coverage of central pharmacy and satellite areas as requested. Oversees and ensures appropriate utilization of medication automation, technology, and computer systems. Accurately oversees the management of medication inventories and the preparation and dispensing of patient-specific medication doses. Supervises technician and intern practice prioritizes work load, organizes workflow, and checks accuracy of pharmacy technician activities. Pharmacy Practice - Completes critical medication order scrutiny, drug profile review, and patient monitoring to identify, prevent, or mitigate medication-related problems. Proficiently verifies/enters medication orders and proactively communicates with medical staff to resolve problem medication orders. Provides patient-centered care services, including accurate, safe and timely medication therapy, and promotes cost-effective drug therapy, including actively participating in stewardship activities and restricted medication/surveillance programs. Initiates and facilitates appropriate drug dosing and manages medication-related pharmacist consults. Facilitates medication safety practices, including identifying, mitigating, and reporting potential and actual adverse drug events, adverse drug reactions, and medication errors. Participates in the management of medical emergencies. Maintains continuous learning and pharmacy practice development. Leads and facilitates pharmacy practice programs direct patient care services, and medication systems, including developing and monitoring patient care and pharmacy practice metrics. Effectively collaborates with an outside physicians' office, ACO and strategic business unit leaders to advance patient care services and pharmacy programs. Teamwork and Inter-professional Collaboration - Presents to assigned areas on time and ready to work and does not exhibit excessive unscheduled absenteeism. Ensures continuity of care between shifts, among pharmacy staff assignments, and across pharmacy practice areas. Supports other pharmacy operations and areas outside of current assignment. Works effectively with all members of the healthcare team to ensure the best outcome for the patient and demonstrates sensitivity to the perspective of the patient, caregiver, or healthcare colleague in all communications. Assists pharmacy managers with the integration of clinical pharmacy services, drug utilization programs, and pharmacy operations throughout the institution. Teaching, Training, Precepting, and Mentoring - Mentors new staff and assists with training of all staff as requested. Develops and maintains quality training opportunities and relationships for teaching and precepting pharmacy students and residents. Actively precepts and mentors pharmacy students (IPPE and APPE) and pharmacy residents (PGY1 and PGY2 residents). Demonstrates desire and aptitude for teaching and mentoring experiential education, maintains a mastery of quality preceptor attributes including the four preceptor roles. Completes preceptor skills assessment and development programs and actively demonstrates preceptors' skills credentials from approved sources. Delivers or mentors trainees to deliver effective evidence-based education to other healthcare providers. Quality Improvement, Regulatory Compliance, and Accreditation - Provides quality improvement initiatives to improve medication-related processes, pharmacy systems, or patient care programs. Provides regulatory compliance initiatives and supports institutional accreditation processes. Leads initiatives and actively participates in procedures to maintain full ASHP Accreditation of all pharmacy residency programs. Identifies practice-related issues which require an evaluation and facilitates clinical research projects, and quality improvement initiatives. Identifies, resolves, and reports short- and long-term obstacles to patient care and medication safety, regulatory compliance, or stewardship of resources. Proactively uses data analysis techniques to track, monitor, and communicate the clinical quality, operational, and financial outcomes of assigned areas and to benchmark performance against internal targets and against local and national best practices. Designs facilitate, and coordinate or mentor