Pharmacist Inpatient
Pharmacist Inpatient
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Job Description
Overview
Ansible Government Solutions LLC (Ansible) is currently recruiting multiple Pharmacists to support the VA Maryland Health Care System including the surrounding clinics primarily located at 10 N Greene St Baltimore MD 21201. If you accept employment with Ansible you must also acknowledge that any assigned schedule is subject to change at the direction of either Ansible or its customers.
Ansible is a ServiceDisabled VeteranOwned Small Business (SDVOSB) providing Federal customers with solutions in many arenas. Our customers face wideranging challenges in the fields of health care national security and information technology. To address these challenges we employ intelligent and committed staff who take care of our customers success as if it is their own.
Responsibilities
- Shall provide customer services or customer support services that include (but not limited to): Answering calls emails instant/secure/Health Connect Communication Tool messages and/or
- Shall provide vaccine handling distribution and administration support services per pharmacy regulations or guidance that include:
- Receiving vaccine when delivered from medical center.
- Store vaccine under proper conditions before use.
- Remove vaccine vials from storage and bring to room temperature.
- Prepare individual syringes for dosing vaccine which includes dilute vaccine draw up doses from multidose vaccine vial; label finished product with all pertinent information (lot number/expiration date and time etc.; affix tamper evident cap; store finished product (syringe) appropriately before administration; coordinate with medical staff regarding number of patients and when patients are scheduled to receive doses in order to minimize waste; and document and report pertinent/required information regarding vaccine preparation and usage daily.
- Keep inventory of supplies and reorder when needed to maintain adequate par levels.
- Administering vaccinations when necessary and in accordance with pharmacy regulations and/or guidance.
- Reconstituting preparing and compounding commercial nonroutine and/or special formulation parenteral admixtures by means of adhering to current USP 797/800 standards.
- Ensuring that preparations are unaltered therapeutically by incompatible or interacting .
- Preparing antineoplastic preparations (Chemo) and total parenteral nutritional solutions (TPNs) after training and competency is documented.
- Reviewing and evaluating laboratory data (e.g. electrolytes) and the medical charts of patients on TPN in the event adjustments are necessary in the formulation of the TPN prescribed by the provider.
- Checking IV admixtures prepared by pharmacy technicians Pharmacy students and other nonlicensed personnel.
- Conducting weekly inventory of controlled substances stored in the IV room Omnicell
- Shall provide outpatient window order processing/counseling services that include (but not limited to)
- Positively identifying the patient presenting to the pharmacy for prescription processing according to VAMHCS policy. The pharmacist is to have the patient state their full name and last four numbers of their Social Security Number AND their date of birth.
- Reviewing the patients narrative field to verify approval for nonformulary medications and/or any other restrictions.
- Ensuring allergy assessment information is available prior to finishing any medication orders.
- Ensuring that the Patient Rx Status accurately corresponds to their eligibility.
- Reviewing interpreting and verifying all outpatient medications orders.
- Reviewing patients outpatient medication profile to assure that the medications are prescribed appropriately in the correct dosage and free of potential drug interactions or incompatibilities which could alter the desired or expected therapeutic response.
- Ensuing that there are no significant or critical interactions (without intervention documentation) with other that the patient is currently taking that there is not duplicative therapy and the patient has no known allergy to the medications prescribed.
- Consulting patients providing information and answering questions regarding their drug regimen which includes advising patients of potential drugrelated or healthrelated conditions which may develop from the use of the medication for which the patient should seek additional medical care as appropriate.
- Obtaining information from patients regarding the use of any nonVA provided medications or herbal products and documenting this information into CPRS and verifying any nonVA provided entries that are duplicating any VA provided medication.
Requirements
- US Citizen
- Must be a graduate of an Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) accredited college or School of Pharmacy with a baccalaureate degree in Pharmacy (BS Pharmacy) and/or a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D. degree
- Full current and unrestricted license in any State Territory or Commonwealth of the United States or the District of Columbia when services are performed onsite on VA property
- Must be licensed for controlled substances with qualifications to practice in any states
- No sponsorship available
All candidates must be able to:
- Sit stand walk lift squat bend twist and reach above shoulders during the work shift
- Lift up to 50 lbs from floor to waist
- Lift up to 20 lbs
- Carry up to 40 lbs a reasonable distance
- Push/pull with 30 lbs of force
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.
Required Experience:
Junior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
