Job Description
Posting Description
We believe a career is more than just a career — it's a calling. Our teammates' "True North" is what calls them to health care; it’s their passion. At North Mississippi Health Services, we believe in helping you leverage and connect that passion with a much greater purpose that impacts people you know and love.
JOB SUMMARY
The Staff Pharmacist I role at North Mississippi Health Services encompasses a broad range of responsibilities including clinical care, education, operational efficiency, and financial impact. This position involves providing pharmaceutical care, drug information, patient education, and medication therapy monitoring. The Staff Pharmacist collaborates with various healthcare professionals and plays a key role in maintaining medication safety, efficient drug distribution, and positive patient outcomes.
JOB FUNCTIONS
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.
Qualifications
Education
Bachelor's Degree Must have graduated from an accredited school of pharmacy.. Required
Licenses and Certifications
. Must be licensed to practice by State Board of Pharmacy in which the facility is located. . Required
Work Experience
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Knowledge Skills and Abilities
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. Must be knowledgeable in area of expertise to survey the patient’s needs and incorporate those needs into a care plan that will result in positive patient outcomes. Must work closely with all pharmacy team members and health care professionals including: nursing, medical staff, students, residents and manufacturer’s representatives. Must communicate and collaborate daily with patient and health care professionals when appropriate to achieve optimal outcomes.
Physical Demands
A thorough completion of this section is needed for compliance with legal standards such as the Americans with Disabilities Act. The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Standing. Frequently Walking. Frequently Sitting. Occasionally Lifting/Carrying. Occasionally 60 lbs Pushing/Pulling. Occasionally Climbing. Occasionally Balancing. Occasionally Stooping/Kneeling/Bending. Occasionally Reaching/Over Head Work. Occasionally Grasping. Frequently Speaking. Constantly Hearing. Constantly Repetitive Motions. Constantly Eye/Hand/Foot Coordinations. Frequently
Benefits A****vailable Continuing Education 403B Retirement Plan with Employer Match Contributions Pet, Identity Theft and Legal Services Insurance Wellness Programs and Incentives Referral Bonuses Employee Assistance Program Medical Benefits Dental Benefits Vision Benefits License + Certification Reimbursement Life, Long-Term and Short-Term Disability, Group Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity Insurance Employee Discount Program Other: Early Access to Earned Wages Tuition Assistance Relocation Assistance Paid Time Away Special Employee Rates at NMMC Wellness Centers
Schedule
North Mississippi Health Services (NMHS) is a diversified regional health care organization serving 24 counties in north Mississippi and northwest Alabama and is one of the largest employers in Mississippi with over 6,900 employees. NMHS covers a broad range of acute diagnostic and therapeutic services offered through North Mississippi Medical Center (NMMC) in Tupelo, Community Hospital System, and North Mississippi Medical Clinics. NMHS strives to improve the health for people in this region by providing conveniently accessible and cost-effective healthcare of the highest quality.
