About This Role
This travel pharmacist role involves providing specialized pharmaceutical services to improve drug usage and therapeutic outcomes within healthcare facilities. The position requires a licensed pharmacist to prepare and dispense medications, advise medical staff, and ensure compliance with regulations.
Responsibilities
- Provide specialized pharmaceutical services to improve drug usage and therapeutic outcomes, including advising physicians on drug therapy, toxicity, and side effects
- Assist in prescribing appropriate doses and ensuring adequate quantities of drugs and supplies are ordered and maintained
- Prepare and dispense all medications within facilities
- Oversee non-pharmacist personnel involved in the medication use process
- Ensure all prescription and medication orders are accurate, complete, appropriate for the individual patient, and in compliance with state and federal legal requirements
- Maintain relationships with medical and nursing staff, providing timely information on pharmaceuticals, therapeutic options, drug usage, compatibility, and regulations
- Conduct and evaluate medication use reviews, assessing patient compliance and outcomes, and suggesting modifications to achieve desired outcomes
- Instruct patients in the proper use of prescribed drugs and make patient care rounds with physicians to evaluate patient progress as needed
- Individualize medication regimens using sound principles, accounting for pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetic variations in drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination
- Establish and continually improve the delivery of pharmaceutical care to patients within areas of direct responsibility and assist others in the department with the same
- Ensure medicinal products are stored appropriately and securely to maintain inventory in accordance with state and federal requirements
- Respond to medication-related queries from within the hospital, other hospitals, and the general public
- Maintain strict standards of confidentiality, complying with HIPAA recommendations and regulations
- Keep up to date with and contribute to changing drug knowledge and healthcare developments in collaboration with medical staff and other colleagues
- Write guidelines for drug use within the hospital and long-term care facilities
- Prepare drug and therapeutic bulletins and implement necessary regulations and related hospital/departmental policies and procedures
- Provide information related to budgets and drug expenditures
- Process all cash and credit transactions as required, giving patients proper receipts and related information
- Attend required meetings and participate in facility and community committees as requested
- Mentor healthcare professionals in training, including pharmacy, medical, and nursing students, through practical and didactic experiences
