Title: Pharmacist
Location: Watertown, NY
Duration: Permanent
Shift - 8-hour Rotating (Days, Evening, Occasional Nights)
Pay Range - $105,206.40 - $121,971.20
Job responsibilities:
- Participates in interdisciplinary patient care rounds, collaborating with doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals, to help maximize patient outcomes.
- Compares patients' medication history obtained against inpatient orders to ensure accuracy.
- Ensures medication regimens are appropriate and follows hospital established policies and evidence-based guidelines. This includes, but is not limited to, antimicrobial use guidelines, renal dosing, and serum drug concentration protocols.
- Reviews all medication orders for appropriate dose, duration, frequency, indication, drug interactions and contraindications.
- Works with medical providers to resolve discrepancies and documents outcomes.
- Serves as a medication expert, providing drug information to clinical staff.
- Compounds sterile intravenous preparations while adhering to USP 797 and USP 800 regulations.
- Ensures compliance with state regulations, federal regulations, joint commission medication management standards, CMS conditions of participation and mentors technician staff to ensure safe and accurate medication handling and dispensing
Licenses & Certification:
- Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree from an accredited pharmacy school.
- Valid state license to practice as a pharmacist in New York.
- 1 to 2 years hospital experience preferred, not required,