Nuvance Health Careers

Description

Nuvance Health has a network of convenient hospital and outpatient locations — Danbury Hospital, New Milford Hospital, Norwalk Hospital and Sharon Hospital in Connecticut, and Northern Dutchess Hospital, Putnam Hospital Center and Vassar Brothers Medical Center in New York — plus multiple primary and specialty care physician practices locations, including The Heart Center, a leading provider of cardiology care, and two urgent care offices.  Non-acute care is offered through various affiliates, including the Thompson House for rehabilitation and skilled nursing services, and the Home Care organizations.

Summary:
Performs all functions required to insure proper storage, preparation, dispensing, use and administration of all drugs according to accepted standards of medical, nursing and pharmacy practice and applicable hospital policy and/or law.

Responsibilities:
1. Prescription processing and dispensing Criteria A: Prescription review and processing
· Reviews prescription for completeness and appropriateness.
· Conducts patient profile reviews prior to dispensing.
· Detects and resolves order entry and prescribing problems.
· Prospectively intervenes Prescription processing and dispensing Criteria B: Drug preparation and dispensing
· Provides properly and accurately labeled medications.
· Demonstrates understanding of drug preparation techniques.
· Executes dispensing of medications in a timely manner. Insures product safety. Prescription processing and dispensing Criteria C: Documentation
· Complies with requirements for Pharmacy Department documentation in all areas in a clear and concise. Prescription processing and dispensing Criteria D: Purchasing and inventory control
· Know sources of drug acquisition
· Anticipates shortages
· Obtains drugs in select emergency situations
2. Provision of clinical and drug information Criteria A: Problem solving/decision analysis
· Identifies the pertinent question, processes data to formulate solutions
Solves basic department problems independently Provision of clinical and drug information Criteria B: Drug information
·Retrieves information from available resources
· Provides general verbal and/or written drug information in accurate and timely manner.
· Understands organization of medical record
· Selects appropriate drug reference for each particular question
· Evaluates patient-specific drug information request, retrieves pertinent drug information, interprets information, and formulates an appropriate response. Provision of clinical and drug information Criteria C: Drug knowledge/ Disease State knowledge
· Demonstrates understanding of basic pharmacotherapy of disease states.

3. Teaching, communication Criteria A: Communication
· Communicates to other staff members through appropriate written and oral documentation Teaching, communication Criteria B: Patient / health care provider education
· Counsels all patients and or health care providers about their drug therapy to ensure safe medication use necessary to optimize patient outcomes
· Identifies, prevents, and resolves drug-related problems through patient education. Teaching, communication Criteria C: Teaching
· Demonstrates understanding of basic principles of teaching;
· Trains undergraduate pharmacy students or new pharmacists basic job functions.


4. Program development Criteria A: Organization/project management
Demonstrates ability to prioritize workload to optimize Program development Criteria B: Research
· Participates and supports medical and pharmaceutical research as required.

5. Maintains professional competency Criteria A: ·Maintains current drug knowledge and keeps current with trends in pharmacy practice. Maintains professional competency Criteria B: Demonstrates initiative in learning about new disease and drug therapies. Maintains professional competency Criteria C: Performs all assignments as required

9. Attitude Criteria A: Pleasant attitude towards the customer Attitude Criteria B: Consciencious about work quality.

10. Values Criteria A: Pharmacist has the values of the profession Values Criteria B: Respect for patient choice Values Criteria C: Patient safety is paramount

11. Teaching/Communication Criteria A: Communicates effectively with customers Teaching/Communication Criteria B: Able to precept students Teaching/Communication Criteria C: Able to communicate in written format

12. Program Development Criteria A: Initiates, develops and completes projects.

13. Performs other duties as assigned.

14. Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.

Other information:
Required: Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy from an approved college of Pharmacy.
Greater than 3 years pharmacy practice experience, or 1 year of retail Pharmacy experience 
Minimum Experience: one year

Desired: Registered as a licensed pharmacist or eligible for reciprocity in the State of Connecticut. Pharmacist must obtain a registered license within 3 months of employment..
Member of the local, regional, and national professional organizations.
Participates in no less than 15 credit hours annually of professional pharmacy education approved by the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education.
Meets all rules and regulations of the department including requirements or competency's for age-specific or position-specific patient care standards.
Participates in departmental and interdepartmental educational, drug use evaluation, quality assurance programs and other projects as required.

Location: Norwalk-120 Connecticut Ave

Work Type: Per Diem

Standard Hours: 0.10

FTE: 0.100000

Work Schedule: DAY 1

Work Shift: Weekdays 9:00AM through 5:30PM when needed for pharmacist vacation coverage.

Org Unit: 471

Department: SWC Pharmacy Conn Ave

Exempt: Yes

 

Grade: L3

Credentials:
Essential:
* Licensed Pharmacist

Education:
Essential:
* Bachelor's Level Degree

EOE, including disability/vets.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you believe you require such assistance to complete this form or to participate in an interview, please contact Human Resources at 203-739-7330 (for reasonable accommodation requests only). Please provide all information requested to assure that you are considered for current or future opportunities.