The person serving in the position of Pharmacist works under the supervision/direction of the Director of Pharmacy. The Pharmacist assists with the administration and coordination of all pharmacy activities: fills, compounds, labels, and dispenses physician orders for drugs and pharmaceutical. The Pharmacist serves as a consultant to various CHI St. Gabriel’s Health facilities and assumes responsibility for dispensing and profiling all orders. The Pharmacist serves in a multidisciplinary capacity providing general services to a wide variety of populations including pediatric, medical, surgical, orthopedic, geriatric, post-partum and nursery areas.
Essential Key Job Responsibilities
- Coordination of Pharmacy functions for Medications Reconciliation, Renal dosing, Kinetics, IV production including TPN’s, Chemotherapy, Medication verification, Compounding, Automatic Dispensing Cabinets, Patient education and Dispensing of medications. If working as Pharmacist Lead in Retail Pharmacy functions would include, Retail prescriptions, Hospice consulting, and oversight of the day to day activities. The following elements are essential to accomplish these functions.
- Communication; Conveys information accurately and efficiently, listens actively and incorporates ideas of others, adapts written and oral style to the audience to enhance understanding. Conveys written information and intent in direct, succinct, easy-to-understand fashion; uses good grammar and accurate, appropriate vocabulary; adjusts style and content to audience and circumstance. Speaks in an easy-to-understand, easily-heard direct manner that reflects clear, organized and reasoned thought, uses language appropriate to audience and situation.
- Problem Solving; Analyzes interrelated elements of problems and works systematically to solve them, uses sound judgment to develop efficient and feasible resolutions to challenging issues.
- Time Management; Prioritizes work responsibilities to focus daily activities and maximize use of unscheduled time, efficiently and productively juggles multiple tasks.
- Decision Making; Gathers the necessary information and makes timely and good decisions by calling on varied resources and sound judgment and instincts to evaluate the relative merit and significance of the information at hand, prioritizes to maintain balance between addressing important issues and handling urgent problems.
- Teamwork; Acts as a valuable, collaborative team member by demonstrating willingness to assume a variety of roles within a group – leader, follower, facilitator; seeks opportunities to build team effectiveness by developing cooperative relationships, exchanging ideas and preventing and resolving problems.
- Accountability; Accepting ownership of one’s words or actions and the result.
- Customer Service; Committed to satisfying customers and exceeding their expectations, anticipates potential problems and creates contingency plans, builds and fosters trust and credibility with customers, follows through on commitments and strives for quick resolution of customer issues. Actively participates in performance improvement initiatives.
