Senior Pharmacist

Job Description

• Participates in the departmental Quality Improvement Program.
• Participates in departmental motivational programs to enhance patient/customer relations.
• Reviews physician’s orders and prescriptions to ensure the appropriateness of drug therapy.
• Inputs physician’s medication orders into Pharmacy Patient Medication Profile and maintains this profile and related records.
• Monitors patient medication profiles in order to prevent drug interactions and allergic and adverse drug reactions.
• Provides drug information and communicates with prescribers, nurses and other staff regarding drug therapy or safe drug handling.
• Supervises out-patient Pharmacists, Senior Technician I’s Pharmacy Technician II’s and other support staff in the performance of assigned duties.
• Provides leadership qualities proper scheduling, and daily staffing
• Maintains a high level of extemporaneous compounding by utilizing up-to-date references and procedures.
• Clarifies any physician’s medication order with the physician and transcribes the physician’s telephoned orders onto the physician’s order sheet for Counter-signing by the physician.
• Conducts quality improvement tasks in conjunction with other staff members.