Director of Pharmacy -
Pharmacist Job Responsibilities:
- Serves
patients by preparing medications, giving pharmacological information to
multidisciplinary health care team, and monitoring patient drug
therapies.
- Prepares medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders and detecting therapeutic incompatibilities.
- Dispenses medications by compounding, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals.
- Controls medications by monitoring drug therapies; advising interventions.
- Completes
pharmacy operational requirements by organizing and directing
technicians’ workflow, verifying their preparation and labeling of
pharmaceuticals, and verifying order entries, charges, and inspections.
- Provides
pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of
health care professionals and counseling patients on drug therapies.
- Develops
hospital staff’s pharmacological knowledge by participating in clinical
programs and training pharmacy staff, students, interns, externs,
residents, and health care professionals.
- Complies with state
and federal drug laws as regulated by the state board of pharmacy, the
drug enforcement administration, and the food and drug administration by
monitoring nursing unit inspection.
- Maintains records for controlled substances and removes outdated and damaged drugs from the pharmacy inventory.
- Supervises the work results of support personnel.
- Maintains
current registration, studies existing and new legislation, anticipates
legislation, and advises management on needed actions.
- Protects patients and technicians by adhering to infection-control protocols.
- Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
Pharmacist Qualifications / Skills:
- Analyzing information
- Administering medication
- Judgment
- Verbal communication
- FDA health regulations
- Pharmacology
- Managing processes
- Legal compliance
- Productivity
- Quality focus
- Attention to detail
Pharmacist Job Requirements—Education, Experience, and Licensing:
- Bachelor or Doctorate degree in Pharmacy from accredited school of Pharmacy.
- 3 years of Hospital Pharmacy leadership experience
- Valid state pharmacist license (or must meet education requirement(s) for state licensure)