Clinical Staff Pharmacist

Humboldt Park Health10 months ago
Chicago, IL, United States
On-site
Full-time
Junior Level (1-3 years)

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

  • Reviews, processes, and modifies, as necessary, all medication orders to maintain a current and accurate medication profile.
  • Supervises, directs and reviews all activities involved with the compounding, storing, inventory, labeling, recording, or preparing medications by pharmacy technicians.
  • Monitors drug therapies to evaluate appropriateness of use, dose, dosage form, regimen, route, therapeutic levels, drug interactions, and therapeutic duplication.
  • Monitors the use of drugs for compliance with prescribing criteria, guidelines, formulary, and protocols established by Norwegian American Hospital.
  • Detects, monitors, documents and reports adverse drug reactions and medication errors.
  • Serves as a resource of drug information for all practitioners and patients (i.e. drug identification, side effects, adverse events, interactions, medication counseling, etc.).
  • Participates in pharmacy quality assessment/performance improvement (QA/PI) projects and/or initiatives.
  • Assures proper control, documentation, and record keeping of controlled substances.
  • Ensures all state and federal regulatory requirements are maintained.

Required Qualifications

  • Graduate of an ACPE accredited college of pharmacy.
  • Pharmacist licensure required.
  • PHAR - Lic Pharmacist

Equal Opportunity Employer

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Required Skills

Drug Therapy Monitoring
Regulatory Compliance
Controlled Substances Management
Patient Counseling
Pharmacy Supervision
Quality Assessment
Medication Order Review
Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting