Pharmacist

Join Our Team as a Pharmacist at Southern Cancer Center in Daphne, AL

Overview:
At Southern Cancer Center, we're dedicated to providing exceptional care and support to our patients. We are seeking a detail-oriented and compassionate Pharmacist to join our team at our Daphne location. In this role, you will play a crucial part in ensuring the safe and effective use of medications, working closely with our dedicated medical team to enhance patient outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Pharmaceutical Expertise: Accurately compound and dispense medications in accordance with professional standards and practices, ensuring optimal patient care.

• Record Keeping: Diligently prepare and maintain comprehensive records for prescriptions, patient charges, and inventory, ensuring precision and accuracy at all times.

• Collaborative Consultation: Engage with nursing and medical staff to provide expert advice on prescriptions, orders, and pharmaceutical details, addressing any patient reactions, errors, or complaints with professionalism and care.

• Quality Assurance: Implement and uphold quality assurance and safety policies and procedures, ensuring a safe and compliant environment for patients and staff.

• Regulatory Compliance: Monitor and ensure adherence to all legal regulations and accreditation standards, maintaining the highest level of integrity and professionalism.

• Ethical Commitment: Support and adhere to the US Oncology Compliance Program, including the Code of Ethics and Business Standards, embodying our commitment to ethical practices and patient-centered care.

Join us in making a meaningful impact in the lives of our patients. Apply today to become a valued member of the Southern Cancer Center team, where your expertise and compassion can thrive.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepare and dispense medication orders.
• Maintain and evaluate patient profiles and comprehensive drug data files to check for incompatibilities.
• Verify completeness of information for all orders, including patient details and proper physician authorization.
• Check all orders for insurance approval before admixing.
• Admix drugs as ordered by physicians accurately and promptly, adhering to department and OSHA guidelines.
• Ensure correct preparation of all formulas or medications and check all prescriptions for completeness.
• Calculate correct dosages, converting between metric and apothecary equivalents.
• Organize and direct technician workflow; verify their preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals, order entries, charges, and inspections.
• Provide pharmacological information to health care professionals and patients; document drug counseling for all patients.
• Ensure adherence to all legal and professional requirements, including for controlled substances.
• Consult with patients to assess medication compatibility based on pre-existing conditions.
• Instruct patients on the effects of food and alcohol intake; warn of potential side effects.
• Provide professional drug information and assistance to medical staff.
• Participate in pharmacy teaching and in-service programs.
• Properly dispose of all materials used when mixing chemo or non-chemo IVs; clean hood daily and between I.V. admixturing.
• Log and date all drugs in use; check drugs monthly for expiration.
• Maintain accurate temperature logs and logs for all protocol drugs and patient assistance drugs.
• Assist with inventory control of medications; order supplies and medications; receive and shelve medications.
• Ensure standard drug supplies are adequately stocked in all departments.
• Prepare labels, file, and prepare billing; compute prices.
• Receive new drug education from drug representatives; stay updated on new information.
• Maintain confidentiality of all information related to patients and medical staff.
• Prepare reports and monitor activities as directed.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor's degree from an accredited school of pharmacy and current state licensure. Position is entry level and requires 0-3 years experience as a registered pharmacist. Oncology background preferred. Current license as a Pharmacist in state of practice. May supervise the activities of pharmacy technicians. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Physical demands of this job typically require full range of body motion including manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination and the ability to read and note appropriate measurements. Requires sitting/standing for extensive periods of time. Occasionally lifts and carries items weighing up to 40 lbs. Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to direct contact with patients with potential for exposure to toxic substances, medicinal preparations, and chemotherapeutic agents.