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Job description
Job Title: Clinical Pharmacist I
Location: Lake Charles, LA 70601
Duration: 13 weeks
Shift/Schedule: Full-time | Multiple day/evening shifts | 8, 10, or 12-hour shifts | Available shifts: 7:00 AM-3:30 PM, 8:00 AM-4:30 PM, 1:00 PM-9:00 PM, 2:00 PM-10:00 PM, 7:00 AM-5:00 PM, 11:00 AM-9:00 PM, 12:00 PM-10:00 PM, 7:00 AM-7:00 PM, or 8:00 AM-8:00 PM | Rotating weekends | No call | No floating
Job Responsibilities:
Prepare and dispense medications according to physician orders, policies, procedures, and protocols.
Interpret and verify verbal and written medication orders and maintain accurate patient medication records.
Compound and dispense non-sterile and sterile products, chemotherapy, and parenteral nutrition products.
Issue controlled substances and maintain required records.
Monitor patient drug therapies for safety, effectiveness, contraindications, interactions, allergies, and appropriate dosing.
Assist with pharmacokinetic consultations and renal drug dosing.
Detect and report suspected adverse drug reactions.
Provide clinical consultation and drug information to healthcare professionals.
Provide medication education to patients and families.
Participate in antibiotic stewardship, opioid stewardship, medication-use reviews, quality improvement, and shortage management.
Participate in interdisciplinary rounds when assigned.
Supervise pharmacy support personnel and verify pharmacy technician activities.
Maintain the hospital drug formulary and promote appropriate, cost-effective medication therapy.
Perform clinical interventions including IV-to-PO conversion, renal dosing, pharmacokinetic dosing, and anticoagulation management.
Maintain current licensure, competency assessments, continuing education records, and departmental documentation.
Provide pharmacy services efficiently, accurately, and in a timely manner.
Requirements: Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) or BS Pharmacy degree.
Current Louisiana pharmacist license required.
BLS certification required via American Heart Association.
Hospital pharmacy experience preferred.
Ability to provide safe and appropriate medication therapy in a hospital setting.
Experience with ICU, cardiac cath lab, emergency department, behavioral health, and orthopedic surgery environments is a plus.
Preferences: Hospital pharmacy experience.
ACLS certification via American Heart Association.
Experience treating patients in a 17-bed ICU.
Experience with cardiac cath lab, emergency department, inpatient behavioral health, and orthopedic surgery.
Worksite address
lake charles, LA, 70612, US
Who can apply
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