Job Summary:

Responsible for demonstrating proficiency in all pharmacist functions such as interpret, transcribe or verify medication orders. Attend and actively participating in daily multidisciplinary and bedside rounds, completing drug utilization review to promote rational drug therapy, leading and developing clinical services, mentoring, and educating staff to ensure accurate and appropriate documentation of clinical activities as needed.

Job Duties:

• Reviews, interprets, and inputs treatment orders to ensure accuracy of dosage, treatment schedule, route of administration, and safe administration based on laboratory information and evidence based practices.
• Provides and supports clinical pharmacy responsibilities by collaborating with other hospital disciplines to support service lines
• Provide effective medication and practice-related education and counseling to patients, caregivers, and medical staff
• Collaborate with medical and nursing staff to optimize the pharmacotherapeutic aspects of patient care including infusion and outpatient medication management.
• Provides information to staff members and/or patients on medication uses, drug interactions, and potential side effects.
• Oversees the preparation of treatments, preparation of investigational treatments, prepackaging of medications, and drug returns.
• Maintains records on patient prescriptions, charges, and inventory.
• Ensure pharmacy technician duties are performed completely, safely and without risk of harm to patients.
• Analyzes, compares, and evaluates various courses of action; makes independent decisions.
• Aid in the precepting of pharmacy students and residents
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy from an ACPE-accredited college of Pharmacy is required

 Experience:

• Minimum 1 year of pharmacy hospital experience preferred

 License/Certification:

• Current TX state license to practice pharmacy, or licensure in TX within 90 days of hire is required
• Basic Life Support required upon hire
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support required within 90 Days of hire