Pharmacist Evenings

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Pharmacist Evenings

Job Summary And Qualifications

• Utilizes appropriate resources to complete assignment within allocated time period.
• Adapts to changes in volume/acuity demands. Remains calm in crisis situations.
• Adheres to Attendance and Tardiness Policy.
• Supports responsible staffing decisions (cancels, places staff on hold/on call, calls in on hold/on call staff appropriately).
• Demonstrates efforts to eliminate waste.
• Reports to work on time and is ready to start work.
• Consistently utilizes Kronos system to document hours of work.
• Demonstrates problem solving ability using appropriate resources.
• Serves as a resource as needed in an effective manner to unit and other departments.
• Is supportive of administrative decisions.
• Demonstrates teamwork and cooperation, works well with others.
• Is flexible in meeting staffing and scheduling requirements of the department.
• Has working knowledge of the operation of Department or seeks guidance from appropriate personnel.
• Reports equipment malfunctions to appropriate personnel and correctly completes work order.
• Assures safe and clean environment. Keeps hallways clutter free and rooms neat.
• Utilizes standard precautions by wearing protective equipment (goggles, gowns, gloves and uses correct handwashing techniques).
• Consistently strives to improve performance.
• Makes suggestions for improvement.
• Is receptive to new ideas.
• Is cognizant of age specific, cultural and physical needs of customer in providing service.
• Maintains confidentiality of all patient/other information.
• Gives accurate and concise reports.
• Keeps the Department Director informed on reportable situations and department needs.
• Interacts with patients, doctors and visitors with grace and tact.
• Gains patient/family confidence.
• Attends and participates in staff meetings or reads minutes.
• Participates in unit/department orientation/preceptorships.
• Accepts responsibility for assessment of self-learning needs and identifies resources to accomplish continued personal and professional development.
• Actively participates in hospital and department committees as assigned.
• Attends all mandatory in-services annually.
• Makes independent decisions.
• Requires minimum supervision.
• Displays professional pride.
• Demonstrates an understanding of and adherence to HCA’s Code of Conduct.
• Conduct reflects HCA’s values and a commitment to the Code of Conduct.
• Assesses all physician orders to ensure accuracy, drug allergies, drug-drug interactions, appropriate dose for age/weight of patients.
• Documents all interventions. Communicates well with all health care workers.
• Counsels' patients on medication use when requested on discharge of a special care nursery patient, a peds patient and all other patients discharged on seven (7) or greater medications.
• Monitors drugs with a narrow therapeutic range problem prone or high use and makes recommendations to ensure positive patient outcomes.
• Reviews antibiotic therapy for appropriateness of culture and sensitivity reports as well as cost effective alternative recommendations.
• Ensures medications are stored and handled properly by completing unit inspections by the end of each month.
• Assists in teaching programs involving nursing personnel and other health care providers.
• Provides drug information as requested by patients, nurses, physicians and other health care provides
• Directs work of technicians including IV admixture, preparation of intensive care nursery meds, TPN, chemotherapy, and unit dose prepacking.
• Attend codes providing pharmaceutical expertise to the situation.
• Monitors all medications for patients 65 years or older with decrease creatinine clearance.
• Review and prepare all special care nursery and pediatric patients per policy.
• Checks exchange medication carts prior to delivery.
• Fills/checks employee prescriptions ensuring all documentation completed, counsel's employee.
• Always reorders when stock is low.
• Makes rounds at least twice a shift - ensures rounds made at least every hour.
• Does a narcotic inventory 100% of the time as per protocol.
  
  

What qualifications you will need:

Education:

• Graduate of a college of pharmacy with BS or Pharm. D accredited by the American Council on Pharmacy Education.
• Licensure:
• Licensed Pharmacist in the Commonwealth of Virginia
  
  

Certification:

• BLS
  
  

Experience:

• Previous experience as a Pharmacist (hospital pharmacy experience preferred)
• Organizational skills to handle multiple activities; self-initiative, independent.
• Computer experience preferred.
• Clinical experience preferred.
  
  

Benefits

Reston Hospital Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts
  
  

Learn More About Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Reston Hospital Center has provided quality healthcare services since 1986. We give patient's access to trained physicians and advanced technology. Our 230 bed hospital is one of the region's leading acute care facilities in Reston and the growing Northern Virginia region. We offer a full range of medical services, including 24-hour emergency care. Our hospital specializes in maternal/child health, surgical services on both an inpatient and extensive outpatient basis. We offer urological services including lithotripsy. Our cancer care offers state-of-the-art radiation therapy, rehabilitation therapy programs and a wide array of diagnostic imaging capabilities. Reston Hospital Center is a certified Stroke Center, certified Total Joint Center and the only accredited Chest Pain Center in Northern Virginia. We are the only Hospital in Northern Virginia to receive Joint Commission designation as a Top Performer on Key Quality measures for multiple consecutive years.

At Reston Hospital Center, our care like family culture extends to our patients, our people and our community. We are committed to each other because when we join together, our patients are cared for in the safest and most compassionate way.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Pharmacist Evenings opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.