Job Description

Pharmacist at Synchrony Pharmacy Louisville summary:

As a Pharmacist at Trilogy, I serve patients by preparing medications, providing pharmacological information to healthcare teams, and monitoring patient drug therapies. My responsibilities include dispensing medications, managing pharmacy operations, ensuring compliance with legal requirements, and developing staff knowledge in pharmacology. With a commitment to patient care and safety, I adhere to infection-control protocols and maintain meticulous records of pharmaceuticals.

LIFE AT SYNCHRONY:

Careers close to home and your heart  

Since our founding in 1997, we’ve been making long-term care better for our residents and more rewarding for our team members. We’re a Fortune Best Places to Work in Aging Services, a certified Great Place to Work, and one of Glassdoor’s Top 100 Best Companies to Work. If you’re looking for a place that embraces you for who you are, helps you achieve your full potential, and makes working hard feel less like hard work, then look no further than Trilogy. 

JOIN TEAM SYNCHRONY:

Serves patients by preparing medications; giving pharmacological information to multidisciplinary health care teams and monitoring patient drug therapies.

 

Hours - 1st and 2nd shift varied

 

Duties

 

1. Prepares and assists the Pharmacy team in the preparation of medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders; weighing, measuring and mixing ingredients; detects therapeutic incompatibilities.
2. Dispenses medication by planning, implementing or maintaining procedures for mixing, packaging, or labeling pharmaceuticals, according to policy and legal requirements to ensure quality, security and proper disposal.
3. Assess the identity, strength or purity of medications.
4. Assists in the maintenance of records, such as pharmacy files, patient profiles, charge system files and inventories, narcotics, or controlled drugs.
5. Controls medications by monitoring drug therapies; advising interventions.
6. Completes pharmacy operational requirements by organizing and directing technicians’ work flow; verifying their preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals; verifying order entries.
7. Manages the workflow processes which may include pharmacist verification, labeling/packaging, quality assurance with barcode verification and drug images and delivery with barcode tote checking.
8. Utilizes computer systems to screen for drug interactions, therapeutic duplication, drug-disease contradictions, drug allergies, geriatric precautions, drug-food precautions and adult min-max dose checking.
9. Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals; counseling patents on drug therapies.
10. Develops staff pharmacological knowledge by participating in clinical programs; training pharmacy staff, interns, residents and health care professionals.
11. Complies with state and federal drug laws as regulated by the State Board of Pharmacy, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Food and Drug Administration by monitoring unit inspections, maintaining records for controlled substances; removing outdated and damaged drugs from the pharmacy inventory, follows disposal of drugs per drug disposal guidelines.
12. Protects patients and technicians by adhering to infection-control protocols.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

• Bachelors of Science (B. S.) or Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE).

 

Licenses/Certifications

• North American Pharmacist Licensure Exam (NAPLEX)
• Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Exam (MPJE)
• State-specific license where required

 

Experience :

• Five (5) years’ experience in a pharmacy environment preferred. Healthcare, senior living industry or long-term care environment preferred.
• Exemplary computer skills that include knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite of products.

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GET IN TOUCH: Bryce (502) 771-8090 APPLY NOW:

As one of Fortune’s Best Places to Work in Aging Services, a certified Great Place to Work, and one of Glassdoor’s Top 100 Best Companies to Work, Trilogy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to helping you reach your full potential and to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

FOR THIS TYPE OF EMPLOYMENT STATE LAW REQUIRES A CRIMINAL RECORD CHECK AS A CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT.

Keywords:

pharmacist, medication management, patient care, pharmaceuticals, drug therapies, healthcare, clinical pharmacy, long-term care, drug safety, health services

Job Tags

Full time, Local area, Day shift, Afternoon shift,

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