"Staff Pharmacist"

Position Summary

Rutgers The State University is seeking a Staff Pharmacist in the Pharmacy -Rutgers Center for Recovery and Wellbeing of Rutgers University Behavioral Healthcare.

Under the direction of the Clinical Pharmacy Manager, the Staff Pharmacist performs a variety of professional and technical functions for the hospital-wide unit dose drug distribution system. Responsible for reviewing physician orders and prescriptions, maintaining confidential reports, entering and retrieving data utilizing the computer system, responding to requests for drug information, checking technician work and delivering medication to the appropriate units as necessary.

Among the key duties of this position are the following:

• Accurately profiles medication orders into the pharmacy information system
• Accurately reflects medication orders from the written order received from the unit
• Accurately enters the Outpatient prescriptions into the pharmacy information system.
• Fills patient medication envelopes with the correct medication from computer labels prior to each scheduled delivery.
• Delivers medications to the proper nursing units, ancillary departments.

Minimum Education and Experience

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Pharmacy or Pharm. D. Degree from an accredited school of Pharmacy.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Physical effort, up to 50 pounds, 1/3 of the time.
• Occasional to frequent prolonged standing/walking.
• Occasional bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, reaching, lifting, pushing and pulling.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Subject to varying and unpredictable situations.
• Occasionally exposed to patients exhibiting assaultive.