Hospital Pharmacist – Full Time and PRN – Hospital Experience Required!

POSITION TYPE: Healthcare Professional

SPECIALTY UNIT: Staff Pharmacist - Hospital

LOCATION: White Plains, NY

SHIFT: Day, Day, Evening and Varied Shifts

JOB TYPE: Full Time and PRN; Permanent

Position Summary:

Promotes the safe and effective use of medication for all patients of the hospital through proper interpretation of physician orders, accurate dispensing of pharmaceuticals, and monitoring of therapy.
Provides accurate, adequate, and timely drug information to other health care providers.
Maintains and reviews patient profiles and makes recommendations to prescribes to ensure appropriateness of therapy, avoid drug interactions and adverse reaction.
Provides for appropriate inventories of approved medication for routine, emergency, and floor stock situation.

Skills:

Effective verbal and written communication skills, advanced mathematical skills required.
Keyboarding skills are preferred (must be able to develop competence using hospital pharmacy software).
Word processing skills are preferred.
Must have the ability to work with medical staff, nursing staff and other healthcare employees.

Job Benefits:

Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy is required.
Board of Pharmacy License in state of practice is required. Continuous education to maintain licensure and certification(s), if any, is required.
One year of Hospital experience as a licensed pharmacist preferred.
Ability to work at a rapid pace throughout entire shift, while under demanding workloads and stressful situations.
Hearing sufficient to use telephones and pagers and vision sufficient to read physician orders, requisitions, and reports.
Hand to eye coordination sufficient for aseptic technique.