Pharmacist PHIT

About This Role

This pharmacist role manages clinical and production pharmacy services for assigned patients, focusing on checking orders, supplies, and the work of technicians and other pharmacists. The role involves sterile compounding as needed and requires rotation of shifts, weekends, holidays, and on-call duties to meet the operating needs of Penn Home IT.

Responsibilities

• Manage the clinical and production pharmacy services provided to assigned patients
• Check filled orders, supplies, pharmacy technicians, and other pharmacists' work
• Perform sterile compounding as needed or assigned
• Provide clinical decisions regarding patient-specific pharmaceutical care, including: assessment of general pharmaceutical needs, review of medication profiles, evaluation for duplicate therapies and drug interactions (drug-drug, drug-nutrient, drug-disease), and development of patient database and documentation in medical record
• Ensure the safety of patient and pharmacy personnel
• Provide in-service programs to all personnel on any aspect of drug therapy and related infusion devices
• Participate in the Penn Home IT Continuous Quality Improvement program
• Accept physician prescription orders and evaluate their appropriateness for dosage, drug choice, potential drug interactions, route of administration, stability, compatibility, and mode of administration (i.e., infusion device)
• Monitor patient(s) response to treatment by subjective and objective assessment
• Monitor laboratory tests when necessary and obtain and discuss results with nurses and physicians of the patient
• Provide recommendations to improve/adjust therapy based on lab evaluations
• Effectively communicate and document actions with physicians, nurses, and patients in the hard patient chart and software database
• Ensure that the patient database is complete for relevant information related to medical status and therapy
• Continually update and maintain required documentation by State and Federal government as well as JCAHO (i.e., prescription logs, patient medication profiles, patient charts, narcotic receipts, state pharmacy, and narcotic permit)

Requirements

• Pharmacist licensure
• Pennsylvania State Pharmacist License
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Pharmacy OR PharmD degree from an ACPE-accredited school of pharmacy or equivalent
• 1+ years of experience with infusion therapies in hospital and/or home settings
• Experience in patient care and medication counseling, preparation of parenteral products, drug therapy monitoring, clinical laboratory evaluation, drug and medical supply procurement, and quality assurance
• Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy
• 2+ years of experience with infusion therapies in hospital and/or home settings