Description
Duties/Responsibilities:
+ Prepares and dispenses medication orders for patients in a timely manner.
+ Reviews patient profile for allergies and adverse reactions
+ Reviews comprehensive drug data file to evaluate orders for drug-drug interactions, accuracy in drug selection, dose and frequency.
+ Discusses questionable medication orders with providers
+ Ensures correct compounding and mixing of special formulas, chemotherapy, and sterile IV products.
+ Provides drug information to patients, nurses, physicians, trainees, and other employees.
+ Ensures all legal and professional requirements are adhered to for narcotics and other controlled substances.
+ Supervises mentors and assists in training pharmacy technicians, interns, and new pharmacists.
+ Ability to work independently while providing excellent pharmaceutical care.
+ Ability to triage and prioritize tasks to provide timely delivery of medications while supervising technicians.
+ Ability to work collaboratively with peers, providers and ancillary staff.
It is understood that this is a summary of key job functions and does not include every detail of the job that may reasonably be required.
Education/Experience Required:
+ B.S. Degree /Pharm D in Pharmacy from an accredited school of Pharmacy.
+ M.S. degree is a plus.
+ Two years of experience in a hospital with unit dose, IV additive, chemotherapy, and computerization.
+ Meditech Client Server experience preferred.
Registration/Certification:
+ Must be licensed in Massachusetts by the Board of Pharmacy