Pharmacist- Kano at EHA Clinics

MISSION OBJECTIVE

• The pharmacy unit provides medical support services in pharmacotherapy, critical to achieving the organization’s mission through supplying quality medications, rational medicine usage, and optimizing patients’ treatment outcomes through appropriate counseling.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

BASIC TRANSACTIONS PROCESS  PURPOSE

• Provide effective medication use and become the people’s trusted ally against health issues that way, you can deliver maximum value to both the pharmacy and society. Review and develop the clinic's pharmacy policies and regulations.
• Participate in voluntary community health activities to promote, maintain and restore health and prevent diseases. Manage clinical risk.
• Provide professional advice on cosmetics or para-pharmaceuticals.

INFORM ENGAGEMENT

• Document patient and family education. Develop and implement the teaching plan utilizing the patient education manual. Think critically in adapting to change, judging situations, and taking appropriate decisions.
• Adhere to EHA Clinics Code of Conduct as well as ethical standards of the field.
• Interpret symptoms so that the patient can either be given immediate treatment for a trifling condition or be referred to the doctor. Protect patients and technicians by adhering to infection-control protocols. Provide emotional support and measures to alleviate fear and anxiety.
• Provide pharmaceutical care services which may include, but are not limited to, patient needs assessment, age and disease-specific drug therapy and patient education, care adjustments based on patient response, and clinical interventions to identify, minimize, and avoid adverse drug reactions.

BASIC INFORMATION ORGANIZATION DELIVERY

• Prepare and dispense medications to patients on physician’s order. Organize the pharmacy in an efficient manner to make the identification of products easier and faster.
• Maintain an up-to-date inventory of the clinic drug formulary. Records of all drugs, doses, and prices on the automated inventory of the clinic. Review, analyze and respond to different situations encountered daily.
• Review and execute physician’s prescriptions checking their appropriateness and legality. Maintain full control over delivering, stocking, and labeling medicine and other products. Develop effective medication plans to minimize the risk of adverse side effects.
• Maintain pharmacological knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; and participating in professional societies.

TARGETED SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE

• Minimum qualification of Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy/M.Pharm/PharmD Minimum of two (2) years post NYSC progressive experience in Pharmacy within the private and public sector.
• Experience working with public health and health systems is an advantage.
• Candidates must be a registered member of Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) with an up-to-date practicing license