Senior Pharmacist
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Job Description
- Quality and Accuracy
- Actively participates in the departmental Quality Improvement Program
- Actively participates in departmental motivational program to enhance patient / customer relations.
- Reviews physician's orders and prescriptions to ensure appropriateness of drug therapy.
- Inputs physician's medication orders into Pharmacy Patient Medication Profile and maintains this profile and related records.
- Monitors patient medication profile in order to prevent drug interactions, allergic and adverse drug reactions.
- Provides drug information and communicates with prescribes, nurses and other staff regarding drug therapy or safe drug handling.
- Supervises OP pharmacists, Senior Technician I's Pharmacy Technician II's and other support staff in the performance of assigned duties.
- Provides leadership qualities and proper scheduling, and daily staffing.
- Maintains high level of extemporaneous compounding utilizing up to date references and procedures.
- Clarifies any physician's medication order with the physician and transcribes physician's telephoned orders onto physician's order sheet for Countersigning by the physician.
- Conducts quality improvement tasks in conjunction with other staff members.
- Quantity /Organizational Skills
- Maintains adequate stock levels of controlled medications.
- Maintains proper records of all scheduled medications as per DHA.
- Controlled drug records are kept up to date for DHA inspections.
- Follow the DHA rules and regulations to keep the American hospital Dubai maintain the best standard of care.
- Performs patient teaching functions on appropriate use of medications.
- Monitors and oversees that the Pharmacy is kept in a neat, clean and orderly fashion.
- Performs quality control checks and proper inventory and expiry control of OP pharmacy stock and OP clinics floor stocks in accordance with departmental procedures.
Employment Type
Full Time
Department / Functional Area
Doctor / Nurse / Paramedics / Hospital Technicians / Medical Research
