Responsible for ensuring prescription accuracy, dispensing medications, and providing clinical consultative services to patients and healthcare staff. Maintains compliance with pharmacy regulations and monitors medication therapy for safety and cost-effectiveness.
Requirements summary
Requires a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and a valid State of Florida Registered Pharmacist license. A Doctorate in Pharmacy and Board Certification in Pharmacotherapy are preferred.
This position is responsible for ensuring prescription accuracy, dispensing medications, and providing consultative services to patients and patient care departments as directed by physicians, in accordance with established professional regulations and guidelines. The employee maintains record systems in compliance with established policies and regulations, including the Florida Board of Pharmacy (FBOP), the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Department of Health, and the hospital’s pharmacy operational guidelines. This position requires patient and public interaction and the ability to work well with the public and health care professionals.
Essential Functions
Secures the pharmacy location, including the physical security and exclusion of non-authorized personnel in the department as per FBOP regulations.
Interprets medication orders, verbal and written, and transcribes them to computerized patient medication profiles accurately. Maintains accurate, complete patient medication profiles.
Monitors medication therapy regimens for allergies, contraindications, drug-drug interactions, drug-food interactions, adverse drug reactions, appropriateness of drug and dose, and therapeutic duplications.
Facilitates the identification, resolution, implementation, and communication of cost-effective medication-use issues in collaboration with the medical staff and residents. Reviews the use of targeted medications for compliance with current pharmacoeconomic programs.
Enters and reviews patient home medication lists and communicates with medical staff and residents to resolve discrepancies.
Retrospectively reviews medications dispensed without prior pharmacist review daily for appropriateness, such as override medications and dispenses from the night pharmacy.
Prepares and dispenses medications, including sterile and parenteral nutrition preparations, safely and accurately using appropriate techniques according to USP 797 and 800 guidelines.
Monitors compounding and testing documentation for compliance with implementing the USP 797 and 800 guidelines.
Assists in monitoring the accuracy of documentation of Medication Reconciliations performed by the Pharmacy Technicians for patients admitted to the hospital.
Issues controlled substances to patient care areas and maintains and monitors the accuracy of records as required by law.
Works independently with minimal supervision. Organizes and prioritizes work assignments. Ensures pharmacy services are provided in a timely manner. Keeps pharmacy areas and equipment clean, neat, and well-organized.
Provides accurate, adequate, and timely drug information to the professional staff, patients, and families in the hospital.
Provides training and education to staff regarding pharmaceutical care and pharmacoeconomics. Participates in the development and presentation of orientation, education, and training programs to the pharmacy, medical, nursing, and other hospital staff.
Complies with all applicable State and Federal regulatory compliance guidelines governing the practice of pharmacy within the hospital pharmacy setting. Complies with all Joint Commission requirements.
Provides renal dosing, anticoagulation dosing and monitoring, pharmacokinetic consult service, and other drug dosing and monitoring activities for medical staff and residents. Implements and maintains clinical pharmacy services.
Reviews and interprets culture and sensitivity data for appropriateness and recommends changes to antibiotic coverage, including streamlining therapy. Reviews antibiogram annually for changes in resistance patterns.
Reviews parenteral nutrition therapy and makes recommendations, as needed.
Provides clinical consultation and clarification to practitioners. Makes recommendations on evidence-based medication therapy regimens and monitoring plans. Suggests appropriate, cost-effective therapeutic alternatives to medical staff and residents, as needed.
Reads, extracts, and interprets information in patient charts accurately. Seeks clarification from physicians and nurses involved in the patient’s care if the patient’s chart is inconsistent or appears to have deficiencies that require addressing.
Detects and reports suspected adverse drug reactions and medication errors accurately and in a timely manner.
Facilitates the development and implementation of treatment guidelines, protocols, formulary changes, and critical pathways as approved by appropriate committees. Advises on policy and procedures for clinical activities. Reviews and evaluates medical literature for studies supporting the pharmaceutical and pharmacoeconomic programs.
Participates in the quality improvement and medication-use review activities of the Pharmacy Department. Collects and analyzes data and maintains documentation of all clinical activities. Prepares drug reviews, MUE criteria, antibiotic sensitivity reports, adverse drug reaction reports, and pharmacy intervention summaries to the pharmacy manager.
Sustains the formulary by minimizing non-formulary procurements, utilizing therapeutic substitution protocols, and promoting rational medication therapy selection.
Advises on the selection and safe use of alternative medications in response to medication shortages.
Maintains the drug supply inventory within the pharmacy budget. Orders and receives equipment, supplies, and medications for pharmacy stocking and/or dispensing needs.
Supervises Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacist Interns and provides the final check for medication orders and medications dispensed from the Pharmacy. Verifies the daily activities of Pharmacy support personnel. Assists the Director of Pharmacy in completing Pharmacy Technicians’ performance appraisals on an annual basis.
Maintains crash carts and emergency boxes. Maintains and updates departmental records required by State and Federal law including, but not limited to, accurate prescription records and inventory control system records.
Communicates and enforces hospital and departmental policies and procedures.
Maintains a current, valid State of Florida pharmacist license, ensuring that continuing education requirements are met in accordance with established regulations.
Emergency duty may be required of the incumbent, including working in special needs or Red Cross shelters or performing other emergency duties including, but not limited to, responses to threats or disasters, man-made or natural.
The Health Care District of Palm Beach County is an independent special taxing district that has served as a healthcare safety net for more than 36 years to fill in gaps in access to healthcare services. This unique healthcare system covers the entire county and provides a wide range of services such as nine community health centers (Federally Qualified Health Centers) which serve everyone regardless of ability to pay; school health teams in 172 public schools; a lifesaving Trauma Hawk aeromedical helicopter program; a rural, public teaching hospital, Lakeside Medical Center; an award-winning skilled nursing center; a ground ambulance program for Health Care District patients needing a higher level of care and the county’s Trauma Agency, which ensures quality outcomes within the county’s trauma system and leads initiatives to prevent traumatic injury.
We are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, military or veteran status, age, sex, pregnancy status, genetic information, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation or identification status, or any other legally recognized category protected by jurisdictional, state or federal law. The information collected by this application is solely to determine suitability for employment, verify identity and maintain employment statistics on applicants.
We are also committed to maintaining a safe, healthy, and productive work environment for all employees. As such, we are a Drug-Free Workplace.
This role may require Agency of Health Care Administration (AHCA) background screening and clearance. As required under House Bill 531, applicants may review AHCA’s education and awareness information at the following link: https://info.flclearinghouse.com/ [https://info.flclearinghouse.com/]
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