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About the Role
NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn is seeking a Night Shift Pharmacist to safely prepare, compound, and dispense medications, optimize drug therapy, and work as part of the inpatient care team. This role involves managing controlled substances, providing clinical support, checking orders, preparing sterile products, and ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations and policies.
Responsibilities
- Ensuring medication therapies are cost effective and safe.
- Distributing and maintaining controlled substances for Automated Dispensing Cabinets (ADCs), including restocking, destocking expired/recalled items, and managing inventory, safety, and security.
- Proper record keeping and maintenance of all narcotic transactions.
- Dispensing and verifying compounded narcotic IV products and managing their inventory.
- Reporting discrepancies to the pharmacy manager immediately.
- Conducting narcotic inventory as required and reporting discrepancies.
- Assigning patient's own controlled substance bins in the ADC.
- Collecting and managing narcotic returns via External Return Bins (ERBs).
- Checking and removing expired/near expired narcotics from all ADCs.
- Preparing ambulance boxes.
- Completing assignments under the direction of the clinical pharmacist or staff.
- Attending and participating in daily medical and multi-disciplinary rounds.
- Attending and participating in daily patient discharge counseling and patient education.
- Participating in the training of medical, nursing, and allied health professionals.
- Coverage in the main pharmacy or satellite pharmacy for routine staffing, break coverage, etc.
- Verification of Adult and Pediatric/Neonatal Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) orders.
- Checking emergency trays, emergency carts, ambulance boxes, etc.
- Ensuring the accuracy and sterility of all compounded products based on USP 797 regulations.
- Preparation and verification of Adult IV orders.
- Preparation and verification of all Neonatal and Pediatric IV orders.
- Ensuring the safest environment possible and compliance with USP 797 regulations.
- Supervising and monitoring IV technicians.
- Informing the pharmacy manager of sanitation and maintenance issues of the IV clean room area.
- Double checking all IV and chemo orders.
- Demonstrating knowledge and skills necessary to provide care based on physical, psychosocial, education, safety and age related criteria.
- Performing pharmacokinetic evaluation and monitoring, patient chart review, antibiotic monitoring, automatic renal dose adjustments, IV-PO switches, warfarin consultations, and therapeutic interchange.
- Interpreting and implementing all departmental policies and procedures.
- Completely and accurately interpreting physician orders for completeness and appropriateness.
- Filling medication cassettes.
- Monitoring patient drug therapy including drug-drug, drug-food, drug-herbal, and drug-pregnancy/lactation interactions.
- Documenting and reporting all clinical interventions and adverse drug events.
- Ensuring that all step-down medication therapies have been appropriately assessed for conversion.
- Communicating any therapeutic or toxicity concerns to the prescriber immediately.
- Utilizing all available resources to reach clinically sound decisions.
- Initiating action to solve problems and assuming responsibility.
- Verifying the accuracy of all work completed by supportive personnel.
- Submitting assigned monthly inspection reports and equipment maintenance logs.
- Formulating and compounding special dosage forms not commercially available.
- Attending, participating in, and conducting continuing education programs and conferences.
- Maintaining skill and competency level to comply with departmental and hospital Quality Assurance standards.
- Participating in department quality improvement efforts.
- Assisting with the training of clinical pharmacy externship/internship students.
- Providing staff coverage in other areas of the department when appropriately trained.
- Demonstrating understanding of cultural competence while performing job.
- Treating fellow colleagues with equity, fairness, and consistency.
- Respecting the rights of all to privacy and self-determination.
- Treating people with fairness and recognizing the inherent value of each individual.
- Understanding and responding to the needs of both internal and external customers with sensitivity, empathy, and understanding.
- Responsible for the safe handling of pharmaceutical waste.
- Knowledgeable in the storage, dispensing and safe disposal of medication deemed hazardous.
- Demonstrating and maintaining highest possible standards and practices of care in a diverse and multi-cultural environment.
- Providing best customer service possible to all (co-workers & those we serve).
- Working with others toward shared goals including participation in department problem solving and improvement activities.
- Ensuring compliance with HIPAA, OSHA, Joint Commission, LMC policies and procedures, LMC standard operating procedures, Fit Testing, Annual PPD assessment, maintaining current pharmacy credentials and licensure, and mandatory education requirements.
- Ensuring compliance with all regulatory standards of practice.
- Ensuring proper maintenance of appropriate records for investigational drugs.
- Providing drug information services as required.
- Participating in pharmacy quality control and performance improvement activities.
- Monitoring workflow processes and initiating change when necessary.
- Ensuring filling of medication orders so that scheduled medications are administered to patients in a timely manner.
- Ensuring overall aspects of department security and control.
- Ensuring short supply medications are communicated to management.
Requirements
- Must have a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy or Doctorate of Pharmacy from an accredited college of pharmacy or equivalence.
- Must be licensed to practice in NY and license in good standing.
- Board Certification in relevant area highly desirable.
- Must complete Safety training, OSHA/Fire safety, Infection control, and Safe handling of chemotherapeutic agents upon department orientation and annually thereafter.
- Must complete competency assessments in Population specific pharmacotherapy, Aseptic technique, Anti-infective, Anti-coagulation therapy.
- Active and current NY pharmacy license.
- Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.
Skills
- Pharmacoeconomics
- Narcotic management
- Clinical Support
- Order Checking
- Verification
- Sterile Products Preparation
- USP 797 Regulations
- IV preparation
- Chemotherapy preparation
- Pharmacokinetic evaluation
- Patient chart review
- Antibiotic monitoring
- Renal dose adjustments
- IV-PO switches
- Warfarin consultations
- Therapeutic interchange
- Drug-drug interactions
- Drug-food interactions
- Drug-herbal interactions
- Drug-pregnancy/lactation interactions
- Hazardous medication handling
- Pharmaceutical waste handling
- Cultural competence
- HIPAA
- OSHA
- Joint Commission
- Drug information services
Location
- Brooklyn, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
- Night Shift
Experience Level
- Not specified
Education Level
- Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy or Doctorate of Pharmacy
Salary/Compensations
- $146,291.87 - $146,291.87 Annually
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness package
- Financial security benefits
- Generous time-off program
- Employee resource groups for peer support
- Holistic employee wellness program (physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care)
About the Company
- NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn is a full-service teaching hospital and Level I trauma center located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
- The hospital is central to a comprehensive network of affiliated ambulatory and outpatient practices, and serves as NYU Langone Health's anchor for healthcare access, growth, and delivery in the entire borough.
- At NYU Langone Health, equity and inclusion are fundamental values.
- We strive to be a place where our exceptionally talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive.
- We embrace inclusion and individual skills, ideas, and knowledge.
Equal Opportunity
- NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn is an equal opportunity employer and committed to inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment.
- All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration.
- We require applications to be completed online.