Pharmacist
Pharmacist
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Job Description
Overview
Mercy Medical Center a Dignity Health member has been building a rich history of care in our community for more than 100 years. We have grown from a small one-story wooden structure into a major healthcare provider with a new 186-bed main campus offering the latest in facility design and technology. Mercy also operates Outpatient Centers a Cancer Center and several rural clinics.
Wherever you work throughout our system you will find faces of experience with dedication to high quality personalized care. Joining our 1300 employees 230 physicians and many volunteers you can help carry out our commitment to providing our community with the excellence they have come to associate with Mercy Medical Center.
Responsibilities
Under general supervision to provide prescribed medications drugs and other pharmaceutical compound medications to neonatal pediatric adolescent adult and geriatric patients according to professional and division standards and practices; to advise and consult with patients and families medical and nursing staff; to do related work.
- Accurately interprets medication orders to ensure appropriate drug dose route and form according to the age and size of the patient i.e. neonatal pediatric adolescent adult and geriatric dosages according to epartmental policy.
- Accurately processes medication orders concerning patient drug dose strength route dosage form and duration utilizing the pharmacy computer system and Intervenes when necessary by contacting a physician to make necessary changes.
- Dispenses controlled substances according to state and federal law. Accurately maintains controlled substance control documents and controlled substance inventory.
- Continually prepares or supervises the preparation of intravenous admixtures or hyperalimentation solutions using aseptic technique according to current standards of practice.
- Consults with medical staff and with nursing staff to provide accurate complete information about drug therapy in accordance with current standards of practice.
Qualifications
Minimum:
- Possess and maintain a current Pharmacist license with the State of California
Preferred:
- Knowledge of unit dose drug distribution and IV admixture services compounding of prescriptions pharmaceutical preparations drug interactions incompatibilities adverse reactions and drug toxicities.
- Knowledge of laws and regulations relative to the dispensing storage and use of controlled and prescriptions drugs
Employment Type
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