What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pharmacist Relief Pool On-call position at Kaiser Permanente Northwest?
Job Summary
Provide high quality, cost-effective, patient-centered pharmacy services in a variety of settings.
Essential Responsibilities
Basic Qualifications:
Provide high quality, cost-effective, patient-centered pharmacy services in a variety of settings.
Essential Responsibilities
- Consults with health care practitioners to establish high quality patient drug therapy plans and outcomes.
- Monitors patients to ensure therapeutic outcomes and minimize adverse drug effects.
- Consults patients in a professional and efficient manner to ensure patient understanding of drug therapy plans and outcomes.
- Contacts and confers with the prescriber in a timely manner to clarify and answer questions regarding drug product selection to facilitate appropriate patient outcomes.
- Serves as a role model by demonstrating a contemporary attitude and focusing on patient care outcomes.
- Accurately reviews, interprets, and fills prescriptions/orders to ensure patient safety.
- Accurately compounds and prepares medications or supervises same.
- Self identifies professional deficiencies in the practice of pharmacy and takes corrective measures to improve such deficiencies.
- Improves patient care outcomes by developing knowledge and skills in new areas of pharmacy practice as they arise through literature review, continuing education, and collegial sharing of information.
- Demonstrates knowledge of department mission statement and objectives by assisting in development and achievement of location specific goals.
- Demonstrates a complete understanding and complies with all pharmacy department and location policies and procedures concerning the responsibilities of a pharmacist and support personnel.
- Mixes IV additive solutions and chemotherapy using aseptic technique.
- Monitors, surveys, and inspects facility medication storage sites to ensure safe, appropriate drug storage.
- Maintains a cost-conscious attitude in the daily function of the pharmacy.
- Uses reference materials or alternative sources of information when necessary.
- Maintains a professional appearance, observes the suggested departmental dress code and wears identification badge.
- Maintains a professional attitude and image; leads by professional example.
- Attends to personal affairs so as not to interfere with the work schedule.
- Maintains cleanliness of self and work area.
- Demonstrates good judgment in the ability to organize and assist in directing workflow to maintain appropriate service levels.
- Demonstrates ability to set goals, plan, organize, and take tasks to completion.
- Demonstrates consistent ability to be a productive employee.
- Answers phone calls as necessary.
- Delegates responsibilities, where appropriate to maintain quality member service and satisfaction.
- Assists in the orientation, training, and education of support personnel, interns, externs, and pharmacists.
- Exercises independent judgment within the limits of authority.
- Influences others to strive towards location and departmental objectives.
- Maintains current knowledge of and complies with state and federal laws, rules and regulations.
- Demonstrates knowledge and support for continuous quality improvement programs in the location, department, and region.
- Demonstrates a complete understanding and complies with established regional employee relations policies and procedures.
- Demonstrates working knowledge of inventory control principles to establish/ensure appropriate cost-effective asset management.
- Demonstrates working knowledge of professional practice standards.
- Demonstrates knowledge of Kaiser Permanente pharmacy benefit structure.
- Maintains a contemporary working knowledge of Kaiser Permanente automated systems.
- Communicates appropriate information regarding formulary and target drug alternatives and is effective in increasing provider compliance and member acceptance to assure appropriate drug utilization.
- Consults with appropriate personnel in matters of uncertainty.
- Makes informed, rational, and timely decisions.
- Perform other duties as requested.
Basic Qualifications:
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- Graduate of an accredited school of Pharmacy with a bachelor of Science or Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree. Candidates who will graduate prior to date of hire will be considered.
- Pharmacist License (Oregon) within 3 months of hire
- Oregon Outpatient Positions ONLY: Must be certified to prescribe self-administered hormonal contraception and other self-administered products as approved by the Oregon Board of Pharmacy.
- Candidates who are eligible for licensure within 90 days of date hired will be considered. Duties will be restricted until licensed and a licensed Pharmacist must oversee the Pharmacist eligible for licensure.
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- RPH Relief-On Call North/East: Longview, Salmon Creek, Orchards, Cascade Pk, E Interstate, Gateway, Rockwood, Mt. Scott, Mt. Talbert, Sunnybrook
