Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center·Houston, Texas
The Clinical Pharmacist is responsible for reviewing prescriptions for safety, accuracy, and potential drug interactions to ensure patient safety. They collaborate with healthcare providers to optimize therapeutic regimens and provide essential drug information to patients and staff.
Where You’ll Work Baylor St.
Luke’s Medical Center is an 1,045 bed facility located in the Texas medical center.
A joint venture with Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor St.
Luke’s is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more.
The hospital is home to the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, a nationally-accredited and NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center.
Our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience—modeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians.
The 27.5-acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading-edge patient care, research, and education.
Job Summary and Responsibilities As our Clinical Pharmacist, you’ll help our doctors and nurses safely prescribe and dispense medications to help our patients feel better and recover from their illness or injury.Every day, you’ll build trust in these interactions by reviewing every prescription in your queue.
We never rely entirely on the computer to check for safety; we always use an expert for the final check.
That’s you.
You’ll review prescriptions for potential drug interactions, correct dosing, patient allergies or anything that looks unusual in your opinion.
To excel in this role, you must enjoy learning new concepts and researching information in real-time to provide solutions for our patients.
You should also continually look for ways to go above and beyond for your patients, delivering an exceptional experience along with exceptional care.
Demonstrates ability to document clinical activities and interventions such as consults, patient teachings and other patient specific information as defined by policy and procedure.
Interprets medication orders and/or prescriptions for drug interactions, appropriate drug selection and appropriateness.
Accurately enters / verifies the order or prescription into the computer system, labels, and dispenses medications in a timely manner.
Verifies and checks medications prepared by other pharmacy personnel.
Communicates drug information to patients and health professionals.
Resolves drug related problems by consulting with other health care professionals to achieve appropriate patient outcomes.
Unclear orders written by a licensed provider are clarified with the licensed provider.
Assists the licensed provider in appropriate drug selection and therapeutic regimens.
Achieves and maintains an adequate basic knowledge base to provide clinical services for all age groups served.
Provides basic clinical services as required by policy and procedure.
Maintains a working knowledge of automated systems Job Requirements Required Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy degree Registered Pharmacist with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy in good standing-(RPH) Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification issued by the American Heart Association
Candidates must possess a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy or a Doctor of Pharmacy degree and be a registered pharmacist in good standing with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy. Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association is also required.
Market context
Clinical pharmacist openings in Texas are often driven by hospital and health-system needs for medication management, patient safety, and interdisciplinary care. Competition can be strong because employers usually look for a BS Pharmacy or PharmD, an active Texas pharmacist license, and current BLS-CPR, with ACLS sometimes preferred. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits here to save research time, then confirm your licensure and CPR credentials before applying.
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