Job Description

Pharmacist
Location: Nellis Afb, NV
Agency: 22nd Century Healthcare, Inc.
Pay: $50 to $55 per hour
Shift Information: Days - 5 days x 8 hours
Start Date: ASAP

About the Position

• Performing primary duties in a respectful and professional manner.
• Responding to Cardiac Arrest and 'Code Blue' life support situations in an urgent manner.
• Understanding and enforcing Joint Commission Medication Management standards.
• Identifying and monitoring appropriate clinical and laboratory endpoints to determine the effectiveness and safety of prescribed medications.
• Conducting and coordinating clinical investigations and research approved by a local or regional Investigational Review Board (IRB) and participating in outcome studies generated by the department of pharmacy and approved by the P&T Committee.
• Ensuring prescription directions for use, dose, medication interactions, therapeutic duplications, allergy information, age specific dosage, and other pertinent data are appropriate for individual patients (intervention with providers shall be made for noted discrepancy of above listed items).
• Assessing metabolic needs, ordering, and preparing therapeutic enteral or parenteral nutrition products in the inpatient settings.
• Conducting patient discharge interviews with appropriate medication counseling including storage, side effects, dose, administration, indication, drug-drug and drug-food interactions.
• Maintaining controlled substance prescription requirements and dispensing procedures for inpatient orders, discharge prescription orders, and after-hour prescriptions.
• Maintaining all documentation for controlled substance inventory, usage, returns and wastage on appropriate AF forms.
• Properly signing out controlled substances for PCA pumps or controlled substance IV infusions.
• Ensuring accuracy of all pharmaceutical products prepared or processed by technical staff including chemotherapy agents.
• Attending medical rounds and intervening on pharmaceutical issues with medical staff.
• Successfully completing the training competency checklist within 30 days of in-processing.
• Participating in pharmacy student education including preceptorship.
• Obtaining and maintaining privileged provider status IAW Credential Office requirements.
• Completing peer reviews.
• Ensuring that work areas are clean and safe according to applicable regulations.
• Documenting significant pharmacy interventions and pharmacy interactions with prescribers.
• Monitoring and managing pharmacotherapy requiring periodic adjustment due to pharmacokinetic characteristics (e.g., aminoglycosides, phenytoin, antithrombotics, vancomycin, warfarin).
• Working closely with clinical staff in developing patient wellness programs to include but not limited to warfarin education and antibiotic stewardship programs.
• Compounding medications as required using sterile techniques.
• Modify medication orders IAW local protocols (e.g., renal dosing, IV to PO conversions, inhaler to nebulizer conversions).
• Attending and participating in meetings during normal duty hours, professional staff conferences and other appropriate professional activities such as, but not limited to the following: quality improvement meetings, professional staff meetings, commander's staff meetings, pharmacy flight meetings, and other meetings required by applicable regulations, MTF guidance, or as directed by the pharmacy flight commander or his/her designated representative and enforcing Joint Commission Medication Management standards

Requirements

• Board certified inpatient
• Active BLS/CPR and ACLS

About our Company: -

22nd Century Technologies Inc., (TSCTI) is one the fastest growing healthcare staffing companies in the United States. With presence in all 50 States and 6000+ employees nationwide, we have been providing unparallel healthcare and technology staffing services to Public and Private sectors for over 26 years.

Started as a technology staffing company in 1997, we have significantly expanded our healthcare practice to both Clinical and Non-Clinical staffing, serving various facilities, healthcare organizations and government agencies. Our ISO certified staffing practices and technology driven staffing procedures – from recruitment to onboarding, along with an internal pre-vetted resume database of healthcare professionals, enable us to serve our customers with their immediate staffing needs.

TSCTI has extensive experience providing Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists and other Allied Health professionals to various states – California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Vermont, Virginia to name a few, and Our valued relationships with employees as well as commitment to meet and exceed clients’ expectations through our exemplary employees proves our competency in today’s healthcare staffing industry.

Recognized among “Best Company to Work For” by Forbes, 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., consistently exceeds our clients’ expectations by focusing on their absolute satisfaction with jobs while keeping our employees motivated.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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