Pharmacist
Company: Kaiser
Location: Grapeview
Posted on: March 18, 2023
Job Description:
Job Summary:
Pharmacists at Kaiser Permanente ensure that patients receive safe,
effective, and optimal medication therapy while providing expertise
and information to empower patients and prescribers to make
informed choices in medication therapy. Pharmacists ensure that
pharmacy care is coordinated with the patient care plan.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Ensures that patients receive safe, effective, and optimal
medication therapy by: Interpreting prescription orders; counseling
patients using clear and effective communication skills and
providing written information as necessary; ensuring patient safety
by identifying opportunities to prevent unusual occurrences;
consistently performing safety checks when dispensing medications;
taking appropriate steps to resolve and report unusual
occurrences.
- Provides medication expertise and information that empowers
patients and prescribers to make informed choices in medication
therapy by: by using appropriate evidence-based medicine references
to form recommendations to patients and providers; clearly
communicating rationale around medication therapy selection;
evaluating clinical appropriateness of medication therapy; staying
current on clinical initiatives and priorities
- Ensure efficient and effective pharmacy process workflow and
cash handling by: supervising pharmacy assistants, technicians,
interns and externs in all aspects of daily pharmacy workflow
including the appropriate processing and releasing of prescriptions
and customer service; ensuring the proper and safe storage of
medications and keep accurate records of such; having working
knowledge and competency with cashiering processes and procedures;
adhering to Kaiser Permanente Cash Security and Compliance
standards
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
- Minimum one (1) year of experience working in a pharmacy
practice environment using current technology.
Education
- Bachelors degree in pharmacy or PharmD required.
License, Certification, Registration
- Pharmacist License (Washington) required at hire
Additional Requirements:
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Ability to prioritize workload effectively.
- Verbal and written communication skills.
- Customer service skills.
- Ability to work quickly and efficiently.
- Ability to evaluate clinical appropriateness of medication
therapy.
- Knowledge of major medication therapy, drug interactions, and
disease states.
- Ability to evaluate clinical appropriateness of medication
therapy.
- Knowledge of major medication therapy, drug-drug interactions,
and disease states.
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Active membership and/or certification in professional
association is required by date of hire/transfer.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Three (3) years of experience working in a pharmacy practice
environment using current technology.
- Experience interacting with an interdisciplinary team including
physicians.
Job Schedule:
Job Category: Pharmacy
Keywords: Kaiser, Seattle , Pharmacist, Healthcare , Grapeview, Washington
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