Pharmacist- Evening Stipend | Inpatient

Location :

Avera McKennan Hospital

Worker Type : Regular

Work Shift :

Primarily days with rotating weekends and holidays (United States of America)

Position Highlights

You Belong at Avera

Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

A Brief Overview

Responsible for ensuring the safe effective and economical use of medications for patients of all ages. This role involves preparing and dispensing prescriptions advising healthcare professionals on drug therapies monitoring patient medication regimens and conducting patient education on drug use. The Pharmacist collaborates with medical staff to manage patient treatments ensuring compliance with health system policies and regulatory requirements. Oversees the activities of pharmacy technical staff and interns. Additional responsibilities may include committee involvement teaching and participating in clinical research and continuing education to stay current with medical advancements.

What you will do

• Performs and evaluates functions related to pharmacy services such as preparing and dispensing medications.
• Responsible for data collection adverse drug reaction reporting drug utilization evaluation quality assurance audits and inventory control to ensure safe medication management.
• Interprets processes and monitors medication orders issued by providers for contraindications interactions allergies and appropriateness to provide safe quality care.
• Monitors medication therapy including routine analysis of patients medication therapy medical problems laboratory data and special procedures as well as correlating these analyses with other clinicians responsible for the patients care to provide a continuum of safe and quality care.
• Provides medication information requested by providers and other healthcare individuals in a timely manner.
• Counsels patients on the proper usage desired effects and potential adverse effects of medication ensuring patient satisfaction and understanding of medications.
• Mentors students interns technicians and others with developing career plans or professional development. This enables staff to strive for excellence and growth to provide the patient with optimal medication care plans.
• Coordinates and oversees work flow with other team members including other pharmacists residents pharmacy technicians and pharmacy students to ensure a productive and efficient environment.
• Maintains a working knowledge in accordance with professional standards regulatory and licensing agency policies federal and state laws related to the practice of pharmacy and organization policies and procedures to ensure compliance with all regulatory agencies for safe medication delivery.
• Recognizes and communicates issues / occurrences utilizing established lines of authority and assists in identifying ways to resolve variances or unacceptable outcomes.

Essential Qualifications

The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others hear understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge skills and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

Required Education License / Certification or Work Experience :

Preferred Education License / Certification or Work Experience :

Expectations and Standards

Benefits You Need & Then Some

Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying part-time and full-time employees. We support you with opportunities to help live balanced healthy lives. Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future.

PTO available day 1 for eligible hires.

Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement

Career development guided by hands-on training and mentorship

Avera is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability Veteran Status or other categories protected by law. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application please call 1- or send an email to .

Key Skills

LTC Pharmacy,Hospital Experience,Pharmacy Software,Continuous Improvement,Go,Infusion Experience,Pharmacy Residency,Training & Development,Order Entry,Epic,Clinical Pharmacy Experience,Compounding Medications

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1