Pharmacist | Retail | PRN

Pharmacist Position at Avera McKennan Hospital

Location: Sioux Falls, SD

Worker Type: PRN

Work Shift: Primarily days with rotating weekends and holidays (United States of America)

Position Highlights:

You Belong at Avera

Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

A Brief Overview

Responsible for ensuring the safe, effective, and economical use of medications for patients of all ages. This role involves preparing and dispensing prescriptions, advising healthcare professionals on drug therapies, monitoring patient medication regimens, and conducting patient education on drug use. The Pharmacist collaborates with medical staff to manage patient treatments, ensuring compliance with health system policies and regulatory requirements. Oversees the activities of pharmacy technical staff and interns. Additional responsibilities may include committee involvement, teaching, and participating in clinical research and continuing education to stay current with medical advancements.

What You Will Do

• Interprets, processes, and monitors medication orders issued by providers for contraindications, interactions, allergies, and appropriateness.
• Provides medication information on the proper usage, desired effects and potential adverse effects and performs inventory control measures during medication distribution and administration providing patients optimal medication resources in a timely manner.
• Maintains a working knowledge of applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, Code of Ethics, and policies and procedures to ensure compliance with all regulatory agencies for safe medication delivery.
• Supervises Pharmacy Technicians in unit dosage, intravenous admixture and prescription preparation/distribution.
• Mentors students, interns, technicians, and others with developing career plans or professional development.
• Participates in continuous quality improvement activities and promotes patient safety.
• Recommends changes within the department and facility to improve quality of care and services.
• Assists in drug use reviews, patient care audits, and detecting and reporting of adverse medication reactions to ensure our patients receive quality healthcare.
• Performs functions related to clinical activities such as kinetics, medication therapy monitoring, medication information, and educational programs.
• Monitors medication therapy including routine analysis of patient's medication therapy, medical problems, laboratory data, and special procedures, as well as correlating these analyses with other clinicians responsible for the patient's care to provide a continuum of care throughout the hospital system.

Essential Qualifications

The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

Required Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

• Pharmacist - Board of Pharmacy active in state of practice Upon Hire

Preferred Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

• Doctorate (PHD) Pharmacy

Expectations and Standards:

• Commitment to the daily application of Avera's mission, vision, core values, and social principles to serve patients, their families, and our community.
• Promote Avera's values of compassion, hospitality, and stewardship.
• Uphold Avera's standards of Communication, Attitude, Responsiveness, and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating work flow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment.
• Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards associated with, but not limited to, CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA if applicable.