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Legacy Health

Pharmacist

Legacy Health, Portland, Oregon, United States, 97204

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Pharmacist , you are the trusted expert patients rely on to understand their medications and use them safely and effectively. You help make life better by ensuring patients are informed and confident in their drug therapy—playing a vital role in their overall care and well-being.

If you’re a pharmacist who understands the importance of your role in patient outcomes and values compassionate, high‑quality care, you may be an ideal fit for this opportunity within the Legacy community.

Responsibilities

Clinical competence:

Optimal patient care outcomes from drug therapy are ensured through clinical pharmacy services. Such services are age appropriate, for neonates, pediatric patients, adolescents, adults and geriatric patients, performed when needed through direct contact with the patient, and in direct association with or in support of health care providers.

Pharmacist will demonstrate clinical competence as required by program needs

Therapeutic drug monitoring: Drug therapy monitoring includes an age appropriate assessment of:

Therapeutic appropriateness

Therapeutic duplication

Appropriate route of administration

Patient compliance

Drug‑drug, drug‑food, drug‑laboratory, or drug‑disease interactions

Clinical and pharmacokinetic laboratory data to evaluate efficacy of drug therapy and anticipate side effects, toxicity, or adverse effects

Physical signs and symptoms relevant to the patients; drug therapy

Provides oral and written consultations on request with other health care practitioners regarding drug therapy selection and management

Administers medical‑staff approved collaborative drug therapy protocols

Provides age and educationally appropriate patient education and counseling on request regarding drug therapy and drug‑related disease prevention

Develops patient‑specific, age appropriate, drug therapy management plans and therapy endpoints

Documents medication‑related care in patient’s medical record

Monitors, detects, documents, reports and manages adverse drug reactions

Educates health care practitioners regarding drug therapy

Participates in drug use evaluations, quality assurance and continuous quality improvement programs

Participates in formulary control and maintenance

Provides accurate, comprehensive, patient specific drug information to pharmacists and other health care practitioners as appropriate

Participates in drug and drug‑related research

Work flow / productivity:

Accurate, efficient quality medication‑related care is ensured by utilization of positive management techniques in supervision coordination and assignment of appropriate personnel.

Responsible for the filling of all patient medication orders during assigned shift

Responsible for completion of all assigned work procedures during the shift without interference to quality of work performed

Delegates other responsibilities in order to keep patient care the number one priority

Regularly assists other pharmacists and pharmacy technicians as time allows and as requested

Responds to changes in work load as necessary. Uses time in productive manner – assists technicians & other pharmacists, restocks, cleans, orders, organizes, special projects, etc.

Communication:

Appropriate information, oral or written, is effectively transmitted or received to enhance communication with customers.

Enhances workflow through effective, open and respectful communication

Establishes and maintains open communication channels. Demonstrates good listening skills

Negotiates. Maintains work effectiveness with timely flow of information

Maintains strong rapport with health care practitioners

Technical competence:

Quality pharmaceutical care is ensured by accurate and efficient distributive services.

Responsible for dispensing and oversight of dispensing functions

Responsible for accurate and efficient use of pharmacy computer systems

Maintains pharmacy patient profiles

Compounds and prepares ordered pharmaceuticals as appropriate

IV admixture: including TPNs and chemotherapy

Filling outpatient prescriptions as required

Working knowledge of pharmacy equipment

Professional development:

Pharmacy knowledge and skills are updated, shared and applied continuously to improve quality of pharmaceutical care.

Attends pharmacy related Continuing Education in a regular manner as required by state law

Inservices appropriate hospital staff on knowledge, procedures, and application of content from educational programs attended

Plans and implements new policy and procedures based on advances in pharmacy knowledge and technology

Safety and security:

Patient, personnel, department and facility safety and security is ensured by knowledge and application of established policies and procedures, safety, security and emergency plans.

Maintains accurate inventory and records on narcotics as required by law

Maintains certification and demonstrates knowledge of required safety, security and emergency programs required by department or hospital

Maintains clean, safe and orderly environment

Consistently demonstrates a high degree of accuracy with minimal risk management incidents unrelated to system problems

Qualifications Education:

Graduate of accredited School of Pharmacy

Licensure:

Current Registered Pharmacist License (RPh) for applicable state required

ACLS and/or PALS required within three months of hire

Pay Range:

USD $82.34 - $93.15 /Hr

Our Commitment to Health and Equal Opportunity Legacy Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits unlawful discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion or creed, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

To learn more about our employee benefits click here: www.legacyhealth.org/For-Health-Professionals/careers/benefiting-you

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