Pharmacist at Cedarcrest Hospitals

Key Performance Areas

• Review prescriptions from Medical Officers to ensure accuracy, to ascertain the needed ingredients, and to evaluate their suitability for the patients.
• Prepares medications by reviewing and interpreting Medical Officers' orders and detecting therapeutic incompatibilities.
• Gives pharmacological information to multidisciplinary health care team, and monitoring patient drug therapies.
• Controls medications by monitoring drug therapies; advising interventions.
• Dispenses medications by compounding, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals.
• Provide information and advice about drugs, their side effects, correct dosage, and proper storage.
• Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals and counseling patients on drug therapies.
• Completes pharmacy operational requirements by organizing and directing workflow, verifying the preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals, and verifying order entries, charges, and inspections.
• Keep records of drugs and medical supplies on Medicplus.
• Plan, implement or maintain procedures for mixing, packaging or labeling pharmaceuticals, according to policy and legal requirements, to ensure quality, security and proper disposal.
• Work with other health care professionals to plan, monitor, and review/evaluate the quality or effectiveness of drugs.
• Order and purchase pharmaceutical supplies, medical supplies, or drugs.
• Assess the identity, strength or purity of medications.
• Advise customers on the selection of medication brands, medical equipment, or healthcare supplies.
• Analyze prescribing trends to monitor patient compliance and to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions.
• Records patients’ history relating to medicinal use on Medicplus.
• Ensures the safe and secure storage of all medicines and hospital supplies.
• Maintains records for controlled substances and removes outdated and damaged drugs from the pharmacy inventory.
• Complies with all NAFDAC legislations
• Stay updated on pharmacy regulations, treatments and development.
• Supervises the work results of support personnel.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Maintains current registration, studies existing and new legislation anticipates legislation and advises management on needed actions.
• Protects patients and technicians by adhering to infection-control protocols.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Perform any other task that may be assigned.

Requirements

• Interested candidates should possess relevant qualifications and work experience.