Education and Experience Requirements

• B.S. in Pharmacy or Pharm.D degree required
• Current/eligible for licensure in state of Delaware
• At least one year of acute care inpatient hospital pharmacy experience required

Responsibilities:

• Review and interpret provider's medication orders, evaluate drug efficacy, therapeutic goals and indications, review for contraindications/precautions, the patient's current status of health, and review drug profiles and patient's medical record for drug-drug, drug-food, drug-laboratory and drug-disease state(s) potentials.
• Resolve such problems in consultation with the prescriber and nurse and clarify questioned orders prior to dispensing the first dose.
• Evaluate specific medication therapies consistent with departmental policy; anticoagulation, aminoglycosides and vancomycin
• Appropriately convert/manage medications per P&T approved pharmacist policy; IV to PO and renal dose adjustment
• Report, record, assess, and evaluate adverse drug reactions.
• Provide accurate, timely, and cost-effective drug information to medical, pharmacy, nursing, and other healthcare professionals.
• Coordinates and supervises work-place activities and resources; promotes professional competence; assures that services rendered and work performed are in accordance with specific standards; advises, assists, and supervises work of pharmacy technicians; assumes final responsibility for accuracy of their work; to include satellite pharmacies as well as sterile product processing in the IV Admixture Service lab, OR pharmacy and ambulatory chemotherapy areas, where the pharmacist is responsible for assuring USP 797 standards are consistently in compliance.