Clinical Staff Pharmacist |Day/Evening Rotating Shifts
$121,181–$193,898 year
On-siteWilmington, Delaware, United States
Job Summary
Review and interpret provider medication orders, evaluate drug efficacy and therapeutic goals, and resolve problems in consultation with prescribers and nurses before dispensing. Appropriately convert and manage medications per policy, including IV to PO conversions and renal dose adjustments, while reporting adverse drug reactions. Provide accurate, timely, and cost-effective drug information to medical, pharmacy, nursing, and other healthcare professionals. Coordinate and supervise workplace activities, advise pharmacy technicians, and assure compliance with USP 797 standards in sterile product processing and ambulatory chemotherapy areas. This role operates on a rotating Day/Evening shift schedule at ChristianaCare's Wilmington Campus In-Patient Pharmacy, requiring weekend and holiday coverage.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy or PharmD degree from an accredited College of Pharmacy
- At least one year of experience working as a pharmacist in an acute care hospital
- Two years of previous experience working as a Pharmacy Intern, or Pharmacy Technician in an acute care hospital
- Two years of experience as a pharmacist in an in-patient hospital other than acute care, a long term care setting, or an out-patient Infusion Center
- Current licensure (or eligible to reciprocate) in the State of Delaware
- Review and interpret provider's medication orders
- Evaluate drug efficacy, therapeutic goals and indications
- Review for contraindications/precautions, the patient's current status of health, and review drug profiles and patient's medical record for drug-drug, drug-food, drug-laboratory and drug-disease state(s) potentials
- Resolve such problems in consultation with the prescriber and nurse and clarify questioned orders prior to dispensing the first dose
- Evaluate specific medication therapies consistent with departmental policy; anticoagulation, aminoglycosides and vancomycin
- Appropriately convert/manage medications per P&T approved pharmacist policy; IV to PO and renal dose adjustment
- Report, record, assess, and evaluate adverse drug reactions
- Provide accurate, timely, and cost-effective drug information to medical, pharmacy, nursing, and other healthcare professionals
- Coordinates and supervises work-place activities and resources
- Promotes professional competence
- Assures that services rendered and work performed are in accordance with specific standards
- Advises, assists, and supervises work of pharmacy technicians
- Assumes final responsibility for accuracy of their work
- Include satellite pharmacies as well as sterile product processing in the IV Admixture Service lab
- Assure USP 797 standards are consistently in compliance
- Work on a Day/Evening shift rotation
- Weekends and holidays as required
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