Pharmacist - Chilliwack General Hospital

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $54.49 - $68.10 / hour Job Summary

Detailed Overview

Responsibilities

• Interprets medication orders/prescriptions and dispenses medications using a computerized medication information system in accordance with legal, professional, and departmental policies, procedures and standards.
• Assesses prescriptions for therapeutic suitability by referring to standardized references (primary drug information texts), interpreting laboratory data, and /or reviewing patient specific demographics.
• Reviews patient profiles for any patient allergies, potential drug interactions, therapeutic duplications or contraindications.
• Withholds medications until safety concerns are resolved.
• Communicates with physicians, patients, and/or other health care team members for prescription clarification and problem resolution.
• Documents the outcome of the interaction with the prescriber.
• Provides instructions to others on proper use/administration, storage and/or disposal, possible side effects of prescribed and self selected medications, etc.
• Communicates verbally and in writing, with physicians, nurses and other professionals and provides drug information using appropriate reference material.
• Participates in obtaining medication history from select patients and verifies any allergy information and assists with medication reconciliation process.
• Ensures that medications are efficiently and accurately dispensed and/or compounded and labelled and that dispensing records are completed.
• Provides medication counselling regarding drug therapy to patients and/or their families, as required.
• Provides allergy assessment and discharge counselling for appropriate patients.
• Documents patient interactions in the patient health care record in a standardized format.
• Reviews patient screening reports or targeted drug lists and identifies potential drug related problems based on available laboratory data.
• Provides basic pharmacokinetic interpretations on patients receiving targeted drugs (e.g. aminoglycoside, warfarin and vancomycin).
• Participates in the collection of data for medication use evaluation projects and documents the required information.
• Assists in maintaining adequate inventories, notes shortages, requisitions drugs and/or supplies and monitors expiry dates, reports procedural errors and participates in quality improvement activities.
• Participates in dispensary based implementation of medication safety initiatives and quality control activities in accordance with established standards and procedures.

Qualifications: Education and Experience

Current registration as a Pharmacist with the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia.

Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of drug distribution processes in a hospital setting.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other health care practitioners, as well as patients, family members and the public.
• Ability to organize and prioritize work.
• Ability to operate related equipment.
• Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.

About Fraser Health

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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