Pharmacist - Retail - Float - Casual
Pharmacist - Retail - Float - Casual
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Job Description
The Pharmacist is responsible for utilizing clinical knowledge to review prepare and dispense medications to patients ensuring compliance with best practices for patient safety policies procedures standards and all regulations. As part of the SCH team the pharmacist works closely with the medical team to provide safe effective and affordable medications to our patients. Other services shall include but are not limited to medication therapy management (MTM) services offering immunizations to community members and providing durable medical equipment (DME).
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Prescription Preparedness
- Interprets prepares and dispenses drug orders per provider request according to established policies procedures and protocols.
- Review of prescription orders dispensed for accuracy to ascertain the needed ingredients and to evaluate their suitability validating they have the proper dosage.
- Plan implement or maintain procedures for mixing packaging or labeling pharmaceuticals according to policy and legal requirements to ensure quality security and proper disposal.
- Assess the identity strength and purity of medications.
- Collaborate with other healthcare professionals to plan monitor review or evaluate the quality or effectiveness of drug regimens providing advice on drug applications or characteristics.
- Analyze prescribing trends to monitor patient compliance and to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions.
- Provide specialized services to help patients manage conditions such as diabetes asthma smoking cessations or high blood pressure.
2. Patient Education
- Provide information and advice regarding drug interactions side effects dosage and proper medication storage to patients and customers.
- Advise customers on the selection of overthecounter medications medical equipment or healthcare supplies.
- Analyze prescribing trends to monitor patient compliance and to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions.
3. Order review for concerns
- Reviews all orders for diagnosis allergies duplications and interactions.
- Review of patient profile for allergies and software review for duplication and drug interaction followup.
- Review prescriptions to assure accuracy to ascertain the needed ingredients and to evaluate their suitability.
4. Medication Error Review
- Monitors for medication errors and adverse drug reactions and documents accordingly.
- Review allergies and adverse drug reactions in patient profiles and electronic medical record (EMR).
5. Department Workflow
- Maintain daily workflow of the department giving direction to the support staff.
- Listen to feedback from technicians.
6. Enforces Pharmacy Laws
- Complies with all pharmacy laws and standards of practice.
- Review compliance with St. Croix Healths Controlled Substance policies and standard workflows.
- Investigate and follow St. Croix Healths policies in relation to all narcotic discrepancies.
- Review of audit reports.
Education & Licensure:
- Graduate of an ACPE accredited School of Pharmacy with a Pharmacy degree
- Current Wisconsin Pharmacist License required
Experience:
- Prior Pharmacist experience preferred
Knowledge Skills & Abilities:
- High attention to detail and detailed oriented.
- Excellent communication and listening skills.
- Leadership qualities including coaching skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Time management and organizational skills; ability to simultaneously handle multiple tasks.
- Interest in clinical programs; MTM Diabetes Care etc.
- Ability to work in a fastpaced environment.
- Knowledge of advanced in pharmacy practices and understanding of healthcare and retail pharmacy trends.
- Ability to work effectively with providers staff and patients.
- Selfdirected and highly engaged but also able to work well in a team environment.
- Ability to solve problems and encourage others in collaborative problem solving.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Support day to day work functions of pharmacy and nonlicensed personnel.
Physical Requirements
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Prolonged periods of standing bending and reaching
- Must be able to lift up to 20 pounds at times
St. Croix Health has been a healing force in the St. Croix Valley for over 103 years. We are a purposedriven organization with a dedicated team committed to serving our patients and communities throughout the St. Croix Valley. This commitment is rooted in our mission vision and values.
Mission: We help people live healthier happier and longer lives.
Vision: To transform from quality sick care to quality well care that is sustainable and affordable.
Values: People Centered Trust Innovation and Growth.
Here at St. Croix Health we offer our employees with a robust benefits package that includes:
- Health vision and dental insurance
- 403b retirement program with employer match
- Paid time off
- Shortterm disability longterm disability and life insurance options
- Education reimbursement
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
- Wellbeing incentive program
- Free parking
- Employee prescription discount program
St. Croix Health is a notforprofit healthcare system located in St. Croix Falls WI dedicated to helping people live healthier happier and longer lives. St. Croix Health offers the services of 80 providers and 20 specialties with five community clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin all supported by a critical access hospital on the main campus in St. Croix Falls just an hour northeast of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Nestled in the bluffs of the St. Croix River Valley St. Croix Falls is the ideal place to work live and play.
Employment Type
Part-Time
