Pharmacist P/T Weekend OVERNIGHT - Maimonides Medical Center : Job Details

Pharmacist P/T Weekend OVERNIGHT

15 hours/week Saturday & Sunday 11pm-7am or 12am-8am

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@ BROOKLYN'S LEADING HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.

MAIMONIDES: TOP TEN IN THE U.S. FOR CLINICAL OUTCOMES

We're Maimonides Health, Brooklyn's largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system's 3 hospitals, 1800 physicians and healthcare professionals, more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. At Maimonides Health, our core values H.E.A.R.T drives everything we do. We uphold and maintain Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork to empower our talented team, engage our respective communities and provide patient-centered care. The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation's largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties; Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children's Hospital, Brooklyn's only children's hospital and only pediatric trauma center. Maimonides' clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neurosciences Institute, Bone and Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.

We're currently seeking a part time weekend Pharmacist to monitor and evaluate all aspects of pharmaceutical care, clinical services to patients and to other healthcare providers. Recommendations are made to ensure safe and proper dosing, administration and monitoring of drug therapy to maximize the quality of care given while minimizing cost.

Primarily, you will:

• Review individual patient orders to optimize therapeutics to ensure safety and effectiveness.
• Using objective parameters and professional judgement, monitors and evaluates a patient's medication regimen for efficacy, toxicity, side effects and outcome.
• Collaboratively manages medication therapy for individual patients by conveying relevant findings and making recommendations to other clinicians regarding a patient's medication regimen by utilizing electronic, written and verbal communication
• Counsel and educate patients concerning their medication upon discharge to address potential drug-drug and drug-food interactions, side effects and other information aimed at improving adherence and documents the counseling in the medical record.
• Participate in the reconciliation of patients' medications to ensure that the accurate and complete medication list is communicated throughout the continuum of care.
• Review orders for intravenous medication admixtures ensuring proper dosage, concentration, compatibilities, appropriate rate of administration and labeling instructions.
• Contact/confer with physicians if there are any questions or irregularities regarding patient prescriptions.
• Report/document all known medication discrepancies or adverse drug reactions.
• Prepares extemporaneous medication compounds when required.
• Performs monthly nursing station reviews
• Prepares IV admixtures, Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) solutions, and miscellaneous sterile products as required, using proper aseptic technique in accordance with USP-797 guidelines.
• Maintain all required records, both legal and hospital; including controlled substances, alcohol, manufacturing and packaging records.
• Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, quality assurance programs, safety and infection control standards and works towards achieving departmental key result areas

We require:

• Graduation from an approved college of pharmacy.
• Current NYS registration as a licensed Pharmacist.
• Hospital pharmacy internship or residency preferred.
• Basic data entry skills
• Good interpersonal, and English verbal/written communication skills.

Salary $71.78 - 78.12 /hour based on experience.. We offer excellent benefits and compensation. Pharmacist, for immediate consideration, please forward a resume to: [email protected].

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Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard for race, creed (religion), color, sex, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristic, marital status or domestic violence victim status, citizenship status, or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. MMC is committed to following the requirements of the New York State Human Rights Law with regard to non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.