Inpatient Pharmacist

As our Pharmacist, you’ll help our doctors and nurses safely prescribe and dispense medications to help our patients feel better and recover from their illness or injury.

Every day you will meticulously review every prescription in your queue for safety, critically assessing for potential drug interactions, correct dosing, patient allergies, or any irregularities. You'll then authorize prescriptions for the pharmacy technician, performing a final check before dispensing medication to the nursing station, ensuring expert oversight in every process.

To excel in this role, you must enjoy learning new concepts and researching information in real-time to provide solutions for real people. You should also continually look for ways to go above and beyond for your patients, delivering an exceptional experience along with exceptional care.

• Intervenes when appropriate with questionable medication orders and resolves problems with the prescribing physician. Documents results in the Pharmacy Intervention Program. Prepares compilations and summaries of data when assigned.
• Monitors patients in the various patient focused care Quality Improvement Programs such as the kinetic dosing program, monitoring total parenteral nutrition profiles, adverse drug reaction reporting program, the renal dosing program and other clinical programs as assigned. Provides timely response to resolve patient care issues. Compiles and presents data analysis when assigned.
• Provides drug information to the medical and nursing staffs including the status of non-formulary drugs, drug interactions, medication dosing, and other aspects of pharmaceutical care. Documents information exchange.
• Dispenses take-home prescriptions to inpatients being discharged and outpatients using the outpatient pharmacy computer system, when appropriate according to hospital policy. Provides counseling and written information as required to ensure safe use of medications.
• Reads, interprets, and enters physician medication orders into the computerized patient record with minimal errors. Accurately verifies electronically entered orders (CPOE) and assures that a clean and accurate eMAR is provided for our nurses to use.
• Ensures the accuracy and complete labeling of all dispensed medication and intravenous solutions leaving the pharmacy. Accomplishes this task by supervising the interns/technicians and their work areas. Assist interns in completing their board-required internship and acts as preceptors for tech student externs.

Required

• Graduate of an acceptable school of pharmacy with an emphasis on health systems pharmacy. and Two years work experience in healthsystems pharmacy or educational equivalent., upon hire and
• Pharmacist: CA, upon hire and

Preferred

• Doctor Of Pharmacy Pharmacy, upon hire
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire and
• Driver's License: CA, upon hire
• Preferred Inpatient Hospital experience with Sterile compounding experience.
• Chemotherapy experience preferred.
• Clinical experience preferred.

Dominican Hospital (a member of Dignity Health) is a 222-bed facility that offers a wide range of services to residents of California’s Central Coast. With 24/7 emergency care, comprehensive care in cardiac, orthopedics, oncology, women’s and children’s services, we continue to lead the region in medical innovation and excellence in healthcare.

Comprehensive Care
Dominican offers emergency services and is a Certified Stroke Center and Chest Pain Center. Dominican’s services include the only comprehensive Cancer Center in Santa Cruz County, a Total Joint Replacement program, and advanced neurological and endoscopic services. Dominican regularly receives ‘A’ grades for hospital safety from Leapfrog Group, and has received national recognition for superior patient safety, cardiac care, and stroke treatment from Healthgrades, a leading provider of comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.
As Santa Cruz County’s heart attack (STEMI) receiving center, Dominican Hospital provides cutting edge cardiac care. The hospital’s heart attack treatment times consistently beat the national average, and the hospital offers two cardiac catheterization labs available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Groundbreaking cardiac procedures at Dominican include the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) procedure, which allows for heart valve replacement without opening a patient’s chest.
Dominican Hospital has forged significant partnerships with area hospitals to bring exceptional care to Santa Cruz County. The hospital offers a level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) through a partnership with Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. Neurosurgery at Dominican is also offered through a partnership with Stanford Health Care.

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