Description
North Mississippi Health Services is seeking a Pharmacist for a job in Tupelo, Mississippi.
Job Description & Requirements- Specialty: Pharmacist
- Discipline: Allied Health Professional
- Duration: Ongoing
- Employment Type: Staff
**Clinical**
* Provide and document pharmaceutical care: the direct, responsible provision of medication-related care for the purpose of achieving definite outcomes that improve a patient's quality of life.
* Perform the following services: drug information and research; patient/family education; medication use evaluation and quality assurance activities; medication history and assessment; monitoring for adverse drug reaction, stop orders, drug allergies, drug interactions; drug therapy monitoring and therapeutic intervention.
**Educational**
* Assist with education of pharmacy staff, students and other health care professionals regarding safe and effective use of medications including drug distribution, drug information and drug therapy monitoring and evaluation.
* Provide teaching and experience to pharmacy students and new hires.
* Participate in community programs that help people make the best use of their medications.
**Operational**
* Participate in the departmental performance improvement program.
* Assist in ensuring departmental compliance with accreditation, legal, regulatory, and safety requirements.
* Assist in prevention, detection and resolution of medication use problems.
**Financial**
* Impact departmental costs by recommendations for changes in therapy to improve patient outcomes; provide adequate documentation of interventions accepted.
* Impact cost of operations.
**Distributive**
* Design and implement approaches to support and enable delivery of pharmaceutical care.
* Assist with implementation of policies and procedures concerning all drug distribution systems (including primarily unit dose medication dispensing for inpatients, IV admixtures, floor stock for specialty units, crash carts, narcotics, and control drug and outpatient dispensing).
* Determine methods to decrease errors, decrease cost, increase efficiency, increase control and increase accuracy of medication use.
**Requirements:**
* Must have graduated from an accredited school of pharmacy.
* Must be licensed to practice by State Board of Pharmacy inwhich the facility is located
* Must be competent to provide basic pharmaceutical care services to infant, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric patient populations either through personal expertise or through appropriate information sources of networking.
North Mississippi Health Services Job ID #2232-000B3O. Posted job title: Staff Pharmacist- 7On/7Off
About North Mississippi Health ServicesAt North Mississippi Health Services, we believe in connecting you to a career that challenges you, engages your mind and inspires you to be the “you” you always wanted to be. We also believe in celebrating everything that makes you uniquely you – your talents, your perspectives and your passions – and connecting you with others to create a supportive and innovative team that aspires and achieves together. Most of all, we believe in helping you leverage and connect your personal passion with a much greater purpose. We're committed to helping our team of over 7,000 unique individuals discover what connects you to our mission, vision and ultimate “why” – our patients.
With seven hospitals, more than 60 clinics, four long-term care facilities, state-of-the-art women's and behavioral health facilities and multiple outpatient care centers, we have a variety of career opportunities waiting for you.
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