Pharmacist

at  RWJBarnabas Health

Req #: 0000169071
Category: Pharmacy
Status: Per Diem
Shift: Day
Facility: Childrens Specialized Hosp
Department: Pharmacy

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

• B.S. or Pharm.D. from an ACPE-accredited School of Pharmacy
• Registered Pharmacist in NJ
• AHA BLS Certification

Preferred:

• Completion of a PGY1 residency program or experience equivalent
• Pediatric pharmacy experience
• Board Certified in area of pediatric practice or equivalent experience

SCHEDULING REQUIREMENTS:

• Per Diem

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Prepares and dispenses medication orders per provider order according to established policies, procedures and protocols
• Identifies, resolves and prevents drug-related problems
• Interprets medication orders and transcribes them into the EMR accurately if necessary
• Maintains accurate and complete patient medication profiles
• Completes accurate calculations for pediatric drug therapy for compounding, dispensing and drug therapy monitoring
• Interacts with patients, family, and other health care providers as appropriate to assure continuity of services and to achieve desired patient outcomes through safe, timely, cost-effective drug therapy
• Identifies and selects specific dosage forms as appropriate for the pediatric population
• Assures compliance with organizational policy regarding medication management
• Assures integrity of medication including visual review, adequate storage and expiration management
• Participates in the prevention of drug diversion per department and facility policy and procedure
• Ensures universal pharmaceutical waste and hazardous pharmaceutical waste policies and procedures are appropriately completed
• Successfully utilizes automated dispensing system
• Performs assigned nursing station inspections every other month as assigned
• Demonstrates effective direction, supervision and evaluation of technical staff
• Consistently collaborates with medical and hospital staff to provide an environment which assures the safety and well-being of pediatric patients
• Accurately reports all patient care or medication errors, adverse events and near misses as soon as possible and documents appropriately
• Consistently uses error prevention processes, especially those identified with high risk procedures or medication delivery systems
• Consistently demonstrates knowledge of the chain of command policy and applies in appropriate situations
• Consistently adheres to all patient safety and medication management policies and procedures
• Assesses, collaborates, and coordinates the patients discharge planning needs and readiness for discharge with other members of the health care team as necessary
• Completes mandatory online educational sessions in a timely manner
• Demonstrates awareness and respect to the patient, family and/or significant other as an individual and family unit (identifies cultural and religious needs, language barriers, physical and psychological limitations, etc.)
• Ensures timely and accurate communication of patient information with all members of the health care team
• Consistently complies with all hospital and department HIPAA polices and preservation of patient PHI
• Service: Strives to meet expectations/needs of customers; responds to concerns with sense of urgency; seeks equitable solutions for unreasonable customer expectations
• Quality/Ethics/Integrity: Seeks opportunities for improvement; effectively manages issues and change; pays attention to detail; follows instructions and protocol/procedures; adheres to company code of conduct; maintains integrity in all aspects of his/her work
• Relationships: Builds effective working relationships; finds and provides information to clarify situations; expands on original ideas; contributes own ideas; seeks stakeholder engagement to support ideas; clearly explains rationale behind ideas/goals; demonstrates sensitivity to differing cultural views and needs; meets attendance and punctuality requirements
• Adaptability: Seeks to understand current and changes to work tasks/processes; treats change and new tasks/processes as opportunities for learning and personal growth; speaks positively about changes to others; quickly modifies behavior to deal effectively with change
• Basic Skills: Able to complete basic pediatric pharmaceutical calculations along with basic mathematics and practice appropriate grammar (verbal and written)
• Tactical Ability: Able to solve problems using analytical thinking

Physical Demands

• Requires prolonged sitting, some bending, stooping and stretching
• Requires eye-hand coordination and manual dexterity sufficient to operate a keyboard, photocopier, telephone, calculator and other office equipment
• Requires normal range of hearing and eyesight to record, prepare and communicate reports. Requires occasional lifting of boxes or totes up to 50 pounds
• May be exposed to toxic/ caustic/chemicals/detergents
• Work is performed in an office, and in the pharmacy and hospital environment
• Work may be stressful at times. Contact may involve dealing with angry or upset people
• Staff must remain flexible and available to provide staffing assistance for any/all disaster or emergency situations

Work Environment:

• May be subjected to noise and disagreeable odors
• Moving mechanical parts are found in the work environment
• Universal precautions must be followed when working in any clinical area and especially when entering patient care areas
• Chemotherapy and hazardous medication preparation requires some exposure to potentially harmful chemicals and medications. Workers are exposed to chemical hazards and must use appropriate personal protective equipment as trained
• Sterile product/IV preparation exposes employee to clean needle stick injury

OTHER DUTIES:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.