Pharmacist

Job Title:	Pharmacist
Location:	Washington, DC
Salary/rate:	$55-65/hour

A Pharmacist is responsible for aiding customers by compounding and/or dispensing prescription medication providing pharmaceutical information to health professionals, monitoring customers’ drug therapies to avoid interactions with other medications, and providing pharmaceutical expertise to customers on the safe use of medications.

Responsibilities:

Serving inpatients and outpatients in a number of diverse programs; special program emphasis includes working with the difficult to educate consumers
Dispensing via prescriptions, physician’s orders, requisitions in accordance with accepted professional standards and dispenses specific quantities of drugs and pharmaceuticals to be administered by nurse to consumers and self-administered by consumers. Reconstitutes drugs and medicinal preparations in accordance with requests by attending physicians. This involves calculating, interpreting and determining chemicals, methods and procedures to be used in preparing compounds
Serving as an authoritative consultant and advisor to members of the medical and allied health professional staff on unprecedented or very complex problems. This advice may concern the therapeutic properties, side effects, interactions, synergistic actions, cost comparisons, administration, potential effects or new drug status of medicinal and drugs. Recommends alternative drugs which are in the same generic or therapeutic class of the one requested. Recommends solutions to the Chief Pharmacist to problems concerning complaints and/or procurement of equipment ·and supplies. Participates in the establishment of policy on the control, dispensation, and accountability of all dangerous drugs and narcotics
Counseling consumers, guardians, or community residential facility operators about medications dispensed to include side effects, dosing schedule and any special instructions
Providing professional guidance and advice to the professional staff concerning investigational drugs or drugs in clinical trial. Provides information and educational materials on newer agents and new uses for the old agents. Searches the literature to evaluate combination therapies and polypharmacy issues. Evaluates new dosage forms and delivery mechanisms and makes recommendations to the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee
Preparing and communicating pertinent information to the medical and allied professional staff through abstracts, joint meetings, newsletters, and other lines of communication available with the approval of the Chief Pharmacist
Participating in two Food and Drug Administration Programs, the Adverse Drug Reaction reporting program and Problem Product Reporting. Annotates consumer records as to nature and severity of adverse drug reaction and files report with FDA. Monitors all drugs and biologicals for compliance with federally set standards and reports problems to manufacturer and FDA
Managing administrative and professional skills sufficient to enable the pharmacist to effectively manage and oversee the work carried out in the pharmacy section of a large hospital with outpatient satellites
Performing administrative duties such as running reports, ordering medications and breakdown of funding sources, recording controlled substances, prescriptions, etc., for use in budgetary data. Types and inspects all labels for correct information in accordance with physician orders and pharmacy law
Conducting monthly chart reviews of consumers and evaluates appropriateness of medication with respect to age, gender, allergies, drug interactions, diagnosis, BMI, pregnancy, lactation status, laboratory data, and potential adverse drug event
Reporting actual and potential medication, variances and adverse drug reaction. Responds to recalls of drugs in the Pharmacy
The work requires some physical exertion such as long periods of standing, walking, stooping, and bending, reaching and moderate lifting
Possessing professional knowledge and skills sufficient to enable the pharmacist to act as the technical authority in clinical pharmacy including providing technical advice to others on unprecedented problems and determining the need for the practicality of improving or expanding the established methodology of the pharmacy
Performing other related duties as assigned
Assessing patient’s medication profile and perform verbal and or written recommendations to providers

Candidate Requirements:

One (1) year of professional work experience at an inpatient hospital as a Licensed Pharmacist
One (1) year of pharmacist experience working with Pyxis, automatic dispensing system
Active certification of Basic life support (BLS)
Furnish the required documents of the pharmacist including, but not limited to immunization records, pharmacist license, and BLS certificate

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