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About the Role

Be part of a practice at the forefront of cutting-edge cancer care and advanced treatments. Access opportunities for professional growth and continuing education. Work alongside a collaborative and compassionate team of experts dedicated to making a difference. Discover your career potential with a practice dedicated to excellence and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Compounds and dispenses medications, drugs, and other medications.
• Prepares and maintains all necessary records on prescriptions, patient charges and inventory.
• Consults with nursing and medical staff regarding prescriptions, orders, drug and pharmaceutical detail, patient reactions, errors and complaints.
• Initiates and follows quality assurance and safety policies and procedures.
• Monitors compliance with all legal regulations and accreditation organizations.
• Prepares and dispenses medication orders.
• Maintains and evaluates patient profile and comprehensive drug data file to evaluate orders for any incompatibilities.
• Checks all orders for completeness of information, verifies patient information and proper physician authorization.
• Checks all orders for insurance approval before admixing.
• Admixes drugs as ordered by physician in an accurate and timely manner per department guidelines, and preparing all drugs within OSHA and interoffice guidelines.
• Ensures correct preparation of all formulas or medications.
• Calculates correct dosages, converting between metric and apothecary equivalents.
• Organizes and directs admixture technician's workflow, verifying their preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals, order entries, charges, and inspections.
• Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals and patients.
• Provides and documents drug counseling to all patients.
• Ensures all legal and professional requirements are adhered to, including controlled substances.
• Provides professional drug information and assistance to medical staff.
• Participates in pharmacy teaching and in-service programs.
• Properly disposes all materials used when mixing chemo or non-chemo IVs.
• Cleans hood daily and in between IV admixturing.
• Logs and dates all drugs being used.
• Checks drugs monthly for outdates.
• Keeps accurate temperature logs.
• Keeps accurate logs on all protocol drugs and patient assistance drugs.
• Assists with inventory control of medications.
• Orders supplies and medications.
• Receives and shelves medications.
• Ensures that standard drug supplies are in adequate supply in all departments.
• Prepares labels.
• Files and prepares billing.
• Computes prices.
• Receives new drug education from drug representatives and remains abreast of new information.
• Maintains confidentiality of all information related to patients and medical staff.
• Prepares reports and monitoring activities as directed.
• May supervise the activities of admixture technicians.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited school of pharmacy.
• Current state licensure as a Pharmacist.
• Oncology background preferred.
• Requires full range of body motion including manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
• 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.
• Regularly exposed to direct contact with patients with potential for exposure to toxic substances, medicinal preparations, and chemotherapeutic agents.

Skills

• Compounding medications
• Dispensing medications
• Record keeping
• Patient profiling
• Drug data management
• Order verification
• Insurance approval processing
• Drug admixing
• OSHA guidelines
• Interoffice guidelines
• Dosage calculation
• Metric and apothecary conversions
• Workflow organization
• Pharmaceutical preparation and labeling
• Order entry
• Billing
• Pharmacological information provision
• Drug counseling
• Controlled substances management
• Professional drug information provision
• Pharmacy teaching
• In-service programs
• IV admixture preparation
• Chemo/non-chemo IV preparation
• Equipment cleaning
• Drug logging
• Outdate checking
• Temperature logging
• Protocol drug logging
• Patient assistance drug logging
• Inventory control
• Supply ordering
• Medication receiving and shelving
• Label preparation
• Billing preparation
• Price computation
• New drug education
• Confidentiality maintenance
• Report preparation
• Monitoring activities

Location

• Multiple locations throughout the Capital Region

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Entry level
• 0-3 years experience as a registered pharmacist

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited school of pharmacy

Salary/Compensations

• $58 - $72 per hour

Benefits

• Opportunities for professional growth
• Continuing education

About the Company

• A practice at the forefront of cutting-edge cancer care and advanced treatments.
• A practice dedicated to excellence and innovation.