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Job Summary: | The Department of Pharmacy at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is seeking a full-time TH Senior Pharmacist / Infusion Pharmacist. The successful candidate will: - Serve patients by preparing medications, giving pharmacological information to multidisciplinary health care team, and monitoring patient drug therapies.
- Prepare medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders and detection therapeutic incompatibilities.
- Handle and prepare hazardous medications including oncologic medications.
- Dispense medications by compounding, packaging and labeling pharmaceuticals.
- Control medications by monitoring drug therapies; advising interventions.
- Complete pharmacy operational requirements by organizing and directing technicians' workflow, verifying their preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals, and verifying order entries, charges and inspections.
- Provide pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals and counseling patients on drug therapies.
- Develop hospital staff pharmacological knowledge by participating in clinical programs and training pharmacy staff, students, interns, externs, residents, and health care professionals.
- Comply with state and federal drug laws as regulated by the state board of pharmacy, the drug enforcement administration, and the food and drug administration by monitoring nursing unit inspections.
- Maintain records for controlled substances and removes outdated and damaged drugs from the pharmacy inventory.
- Supervise the work results of support personnel
- Maintain current registration, studies existing and new legislation, and advises management on needed actions
- Protect patients and technicians by adhering to infection-control protocols.
- Maintain safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
- Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: | SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, familial status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status, criminal conviction, and all other protected classes under federal or state laws. Women, minorities, veterans, individuals with disabilities and members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please contact Human Resources at ada@downstate.edu |
