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Clinical Pharmacist I – Central Fill Specialty Pharmacy
Location: 3250 S 76th Street, Philadelphia PA
Schedule: Full-time | Day Shift
About Penn Medicine:
- At Penn Medicine, our mission is to improve lives through innovation in patient care, education, and research. As one of the world’s leading academic health systems, Penn Medicine brings together top-ranked hospitals, world-class clinicians, and groundbreaking research to deliver exceptional patient outcomes. Pharmacists at Penn Medicine play an integral role on the care team, supporting safe, effective, and evidence-based medication use across a wide range of clinical settings.
Summary:
Provides comprehensive, quality medication management for patients and employees of Penn Medicine through application of pharmacy practice standards. Reviews provider orders and dispenses medications and pharmaceutical preparations to inpatient and outpatient areas of the hospital. Maintains accurate patient profiles and monitors and helps manage drug therapies in order to achieve positive patient outcomes. Oversees pharmacy technicians and students and ensures accuracy of their work prior to dispensing, Adheres to Pharmacy Policies and organizational goals and objectives. Travels to and staffs all HUP pharmacy sites based on operational need.
Responsibilities:
- Provide optimal pharmacy service to patients and other health care professionals by designing, recommending, monitoring, evaluating and documenting patient and age-specific pharmacotherapy.
- Demonstrate an awareness of patient and employee confidentiality and safety when carrying out daily responsibilities.
- Verify, prepare, and dispense medications using appropriate techniques to ensure positive outcomes of drug therapies and compliance with national and health system’s policies and procedures.
- Provide concise, applicable and timely responses to drug information requests from health care providers and patients.
- Participate in the management of medical emergencies. • Ensure adherence to medication-use policies and guidelines.
- Manage time effectively to fulfill practice responsibilities. • Supervise and direct the activities of pharmacy technicians.
Credentials:
- Current pharmacist license in the state of PA (Required)
Education or Equivalent Experience:
- Bachelor of Science Degree OR Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from an accredited College of Pharmacy. (Required)
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