Job Summary
Pharmacist Inpatient – Portland. This role entails compounding, preparing, dispensing, and overseeing medication handling within a hospital pharmacy setting. The pharmacist will ensure medication safety, efficacy, and compliance with regulatory standards while supervising technical personnel and supporting clinical activities across the facility.
Job Details
- Location: Portland
- Position Description: Compounds, prepares, mixes, manufactures, and dispenses medicines using a high level of technical and organizational skills. Uses critical thinking abilities. Oversees the proper handling, usage, and storage of drugs in the pharmacy. Maintains standards set by the department and translates policies/procedures into daily operations and clinical activities. Supervises and trains assigned technical personnel and assumes responsibility for technical support activities within the pharmacy department.
- Required Qualifications: Graduate of school of pharmacy; Bachelor's Degree preferred; Pharmacist license in the state of practice; All licensures and certifications needed to fulfill the duties required of a Pharmacist at the state level.
- Schedule: Day Shift, 8 hours per day, minimum 40 hours per week.
- Additional Information: Processes, enters, verifies, and sends medication orders within the institution in a timely manner that is in compliance with department/hospital policies, Joint Commission, and other regulatory guidelines. Ensures medication therapy is efficacious, safe, convenient, and cost-effective. Establishes the best therapeutic outcomes. Assures that medication prescribing is optimal with respect to indication, dose, route, frequency, history of allergy, and does not duplicate or interact with the effects of other drugs. Conducts and manages daily reports on medication utilization based upon daily rounds to identify, catalogue, and analyze areas in which medication improvement is needed. Performs quality assurance procedures. Participates in pharmacy-related tasks and programs such as clinical rounds, emergency department, short-staffed areas, and all other areas as directed. Expedites regulatory, licensing, and standards compliance. Participates in department cost savings. Collaborates on medication procurement and formulary adherence. Assists in process improvement and develops new pharmacy services.
Benefits
- The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:
- Private housing or generous housing allowance
- Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
- Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
- Competitive salaries
- Referral bonuses
- Travel reimbursement
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Direct deposit/free checking
- Unlimited free CE credits
