Pharmacist-Psychiatry Department

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Description

Job Description:

• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to optimize drug therapy.
• Review and interprets medication orders and prescriptions for inpatients to ensure dosage, route, frequency, potential interactions, and allergies have been screened.
• Provide clinical pharmacy services to hospital patients including, but not limited to order review and verification, medication reconciliation, pharmacokinetic dosing/monitoring, renal dose adjustment, anticoagulation monitoring, and IV to PO conversion.
• Perform medication distributive functions, including, but not limited to, preparation and/or verification of medications, labeling, compounding, and dispensing. Provide drug information to prescribers, hospital staff, and patients.
• Maintain established procedures concerning quality assurance monitoring, security of controlled substances, and disposal of hazardous medications.
• Oversee technician activities and performance.
• Provide direction and guidance, as needed, to pharmacy technicians.
• Participate in orientation, instruction training of pharmacy technicians, residents, pharmacists, and other health professionals.
• Performs duties documented in accordance with requirements of all regulatory and governing bodies of pharmacy and/or the hospital.
• Prepare the full range of sterile products and performs pharmaceutical calculations for a variety of preparations.
• Provide for the safe handling, preparation, storage, and disposal of and hazardous drugs.
• Ensure strict adherence to sterile procedures and correct operation and maintenance of equipment.
• Receive and reviews, prepares, and fills physician orders for intravenous (I.V.) solutions, other parenteral, inpatient unit dose orders, prescriptions, and bulk drug orders.
• Perform final pharmacy check on sterile products, bulk drug orders, replenishment of emergency medication carts and inpatient automated dispensing

Requirements

PSYCHIATRY DEPARTMENT PHARMACIST: A minimum of one-year pharmacy experience within the last 3 years. Completion of an ASHP accredited PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency is required. ASHP accredited PGY-2 Specialty Residency in Psychiatry or Psychiatry Pharmacy Fellowship or equivalent experience required. Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist (BCPP) is preferred. Chief, Department of Pharmacy has to waive requirements.