Pharmacist

Job Description
• Ensures through his actions, either directly or indirectly, that a superior quality of medical treatment, compassion and understanding is given to every patient served at the NMC Hospitals and Clinics.
• Ensures prompts and accurate delivery of medications to patients.
• Ensures that Physician’s Orders and patient medication profiles are reviewed, processed and checked properly.
• Ensures that drug information is provided to health care professional and patients to assist in providing rational drug therapy.
• Ensures that orientation to new staff is carried out.
• Ensures that prescriptions are appropriate and accurately filled with detailed instructions by interpreting each prescription before filing to ascertain if strength and dosage prescribed is within patient tolerance.
• Ensures that patient profile is reviewed to check for Drug vs. Drug Interaction, Drug vs. Patient Allergies and Drug vs. Patient Diet restrictions and dosage suitable.
• Ensures that daily preparations of medicines for inpatients are carried out based on the unit dose system.
• Ensures that the doses for I.
V. Admixtures, TPN and Compounding Cytotoxic drugs are properly calculated according to the written policy and procedures.
• Ensures of computerized charging, verification and modification of inpatient medication for specific patients.
• Ensures that current and accurate drug information to health care professionals is provided.
• Ensures that confidentiality and security of patient information is maintained as per hospital policy and professional pharmacy standards.
• Ensures that monthly controlled drug requirements and stock level are well estimated; controls and initiates storehouse orders for all appropriate areas.
• Ensures to participate in the inpatient counseling and training in Pharmacy Students.
• Ensure to assist in updating the Hospital Formulary.
• Ensures an accurate and proper storage of any new delivered medicines.
• Ensures that the process of computerization is observed, including drug dispensing, inventory, Drug vs. Drug interaction, Allergies, Refills and validity of prescriptions.
• Ensures that periodic spot-check for all controlled and narcotic drugs are performed according to the MOH to guarantee inventory correctness.
• Ensures that the operating manuals for the Pharmacy unit are reviewed every two (2) years.
• Ensures to participate in the continuing education, to keep abreast of new pharmaceuticals, equipment techniques and antidote information.
• Ensures that current listing of physicians and dentists’ signature specimens (badge number), abbreviations and clerical symbols recommending and implementing approved changes are kept and filed.
• Ensures that infection control procedures are implemented and maintained.
• Ensures to comply with the hospital dress code.
• Responsible to educate patients /families as per their needs and to implement their whole role regarding patient / family education process as mention in patient & family education policy and procedure (NSP-GEN-014) including documentation in patient medical record.
• They are knowledgeable about their essential role in patient and family education.
• Involves the patient/families in plan of care and respects patients/families regarding their goals and choices of patient care.
• Provides health promotion and health teaching thru methods appropriate to a patients’ developmental level, learning needs, readiness and ability to learn, language preference, culture and situations.
• Allots time necessary to assess, plan implement and evaluate patient education provided to patients/families with appropriate documentation.
• Performs other applicable tasks and duties assigned within the realm of the employee’s knowledge, skills and abilities.
• Performs additional tasks and duties as assigned by Superiors.

Qualifications:
A minimum of:

Education:
Required B.
S. Pharmacy Graduate. Licensed Pharmacist, according to laws and regulations;

Experience:
A minimum of: Two (1-3) years experience as a Pharmacist in a Pharmacy of a large acute care hospital; Skills
• Proficient in the use and application of new medications and technology.
• Problem solving ability and analytical thinking preferred.
• Customer service skills; exhibits professionalism, effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Fluency in verbal and written English for Arabic and Non-Arabic speakers.
• Computer literate.