Tupelo
PHARMACY O/P
Full Time - Day

Posting Description

At North Mississippi Health Services, our mission is to “continuously improve the health of the people of our region.” Our vision is to “provide the best patient and family-centered care and health services in America.” We believe that fulfilling our mission and vision calls us to embrace the best people that form incredible connections to our patients and families. We take pride in celebrating everything that makes you uniquely you – your talents, your perspectives, and your passions. At North Mississippi Health Services, we believe in connecting your passion with a purpose. When you are part of our team, you know what connected feels like. #WhatConnectsYou #NMHSConnections

Job Description

**Clinical*** Provide and document pharmaceutical care: the direct, responsible provision of medication-related care for the purpose of achieving definite outcomes that improve a patient’s quality of life.* Perform the following services: drug information and research; patient/family education; medication use evaluation and quality assurance activities; medication history and assessment; monitoring for adverse drug reaction, stop orders, drug allergies, drug interactions; drug therapy monitoring and therapeutic intervention.**Educational*** Assist with education of pharmacy staff, students and other health care professionals regarding safe and effective use of medications including drug distribution, drug information and drug therapy monitoring and evaluation.* Provide teaching and experience to pharmacy students and new hires.* Participate in community programs that help people make the best use of their medications.**Operational*** Participate in the departmental performance improvement program.* Assist in ensuring departmental compliance with accreditation, legal, regulatory, and safety requirements.* Assist in prevention, detection and resolution of medication use problems.**Financial*** Impact departmental costs by recommendations for changes in therapy to improve patient outcomes; provide adequate documentation of interventions accepted.* Impact cost of operations.**Distributive*** Design and implement approaches to support and enable delivery of pharmaceutical care.* Assist with implementation of policies and procedures concerning all drug distribution systems (including primarily unit dose medication dispensing for inpatients, IV admixtures, floor stock for specialty units, crash carts, narcotics, and control drug and outpatient dispensing).* Determine methods to decrease errors, decrease cost, increase efficiency, increase control and increase accuracy of medication use.**Requirements:*** Must have graduated from an accredited school of pharmacy.* Must be licensed to practice by Mississippi State Board of Pharmacy.* Must be competent to provide basic pharmaceutical care services to infant, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric patient populations either through personal expertise or through appropriate information sources of networking.

Requirements:

Licenses

You must have the following licenses to apply:
Pharmacist

Education

You must have the following education to apply:
Masters