Pharmacist

Built-in 1973, Dignity Health Methodist Hospital of Sacramento is committed to providing daily excellence in health care for residents of Sacramento’s southern suburbs, including the Elk Grove, Wilton, and Galt communities. Methodist Hospital is home to a 158 acute-care bed facility with 1,120 employees, 283 medical staff, and 29 Emergency Department beds. Methodist Hospital also owns and operates Bruceville Terrace – a 171-bed, sub-acute skilled nursing long-term care facility adjacent to the hospital that provides care for the elderly, as well as those requiring extended recoveries. Methodist Hospital is home to the Family Medicine Residency Program, an accredited and nationally recognized program which provides resident physicians with specialty training in primary care family medicine. Together, the hospital and residency program implemented a ground-breaking curriculum addressing the identification, treatment, and assistance of human trafficking victims and created a one-of-a-kind health clinic for victims, the Human Trafficking Medical Home.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

Job Summary: 

The incumbent provides timely, accurate, and complete pharmaceutical care which includes reviewing medication orders, performing appropriate clinical interventions with prescribers, and providing drug information. Demonstrates competency in patient care for patient population served. The incumbent
will also effectively maintain control of daily pharmacy operations and supervise personnel.

Responsibilities: 

• Investigates and completes Medication Event Report. 
• Follows High Risk Medication policies & procedures including appropriate documentation. 
• Effectively maintains control of daily pharmacy operations and supervises personnel. 
• Number of orders verified compared against like shifts.
• Number of clinical interventions compared against like shifts.
• Contributes to the department or hospital achieving contract compliance as determined each year.
• Achieves annual performance goals. Exceeds (3) Achieved greater than or equal to 90% of goals.
• Keeps informed of departmental process changes through documentation of reading minutes, huddles, emails and other communication within one month of information posting or due date assigned.
• Completes Quality Assurance logs as required.

Minimum Requirements: 

Education and Experience: 

• Acute care in-patient hospital experience preferred.

Licensure: 

• Current California pharmacist license.

Special Skills: 

Demonstrated knowledge of pharmaco- therapeutics, therapeutic drug monitoring and therapeutic interventions, pharmaceutical supplies, drugs, chemicals and biologicals, federal and state regulations relating to pharmaceutical transactions, pharmacokinetics, supply management and inventory control.

Training: 

Demonstrated ability to enforce formulary decisions of the medical staff, maintain
accurate and complete records, provide instruction and preceptorship on the subject of pharmacotherapeutics, its use and application. Effectively communicate, both written and verbal.