Pharmacist (Multi Site requirement)

Currently seeking Registered Pharmacists (RPh) to support the Indian Health Service (IHS), Colorado River Service Unit. Service areas are to include the following locations: Parker, AZ; Peach Springs, AZ; Supai, AZ; Havasu Lake, CA; and Moapa, NV.

The pharmacist will assist in ensuring the appropriate use of pharmaceutical problems by each patient within the requirements and objectives of the patient's total healthcare plan. The contract pharmacist shall participate in activities to:

• Ensure appropriate pharmacotherapy for each patient. The pharmacist shall use his/her professional knowledge and skill to communicate clinical judgments to the treatment Learn and the patient.
• Assess the patient's knowledge and capability for understanding/communicating the treatment plan. The pharmacist will educate the patient/family/caregiver to increase the understanding and knowledge of the patient’s treatment plan.
• Determine with the patient potential problems in adhering to the treatment plan. The pharmacist shall help the patient/family/caregiver generate solutions to potential treatment plan adherence problems.
• Monitor outcomes for each patient as appropriate. The pharmacist shall use professional knowledge and skills to assess patient status and to modify and document treatment strategies. The pharmacist will ensure that the patient has access to sufficient medication/refills until the next appointment. The pharmacist will report any clinical concerns to the supervisory pharmacist immediately.

Pharmacists will assist in ensuring that prescriptions or medication orders are appropriate for the patient and that correct pharmaceutical products are selected, compounded, packaged, and labeled for dispensing and administration, and that medications are delivered to the patient when needed. The pharmacist must have experience and shall participate in activities to:

• Process the prescription or drug order. The pharmacist will perform a routine assessment of legibility, accuracy, and completeness of the prescription or drug order to ensure correc1 dosage and to check for drug interactions. The pharmacist will communicate lo the patient/family/caregiver when n generic substitution or therapeutic interchange is being used.
• Prepare the pharmaceutical products. The pharmacist will prepare, or oversee the preparation by a pharmacy technician or automated device, the pharmaceutical product.
• Prepare the label. The pharmacist will perform routine prescription data entry and create the label for the medication.
• Present the prescribed medication to the patient. The pharmacist will deliver or supervise the delivery of the medication to the patient, counsels as required by law or regulation and provides education material to the patient appropriate for the ordered medication, document activities.
• Experience working with ln RPMS, EHR and ScriptPro is not mandatory but is preferred.

Requirements

Education: A degree in Pharmacy that is recognized by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) or an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained.

Licensure: Applicants must be licensed to practice pharmacy in a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.

Please provide compensation requirement and degrees/licensures with resume.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $80.00 - $100.00 per hour

Work Location: In person