Job Description:
Pharmacist:
- Review prescriptions to assure accuracy, to ascertain the needed ingredients, and to evaluate their suitability.
- Provide information and advice regarding drug interactions, side effects, dosage, and proper medication usage and storage.
- Assess the identity, strength, and purity of medications.
- Compound simple compounds and dispense medications as prescribed by doctors and dentists, by calculating, weighing, measuring, and mixing ingredients, or overseeing these activities. Ensuring medication reaches the patient in the correct form and dose – this may include tablets, capsules, ointments, injections, inhalers, and creams.
- Plan, implement, and maintain procedures for mixing, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals, according to policy and legal requirements, to ensure quality, security, and proper disposal.
- Teach pharmacy students serving as interns in preparation for their graduation or licensure.
- Advise customers on the selection of over-the-counter medications, medication brands, medical equipment and health-care supplies, durable medical equipment, and home healthcare supplies.
- Provide specialized services to help patients manage conditions such as diabetes, asthma, smoking cessation, or high blood pressure.
- Advise patients about diet, exercise, or stress management.
- Collaborate with other health care professionals to plan, monitor, review, and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of drugs and drug regimens, providing advice on drug applications and characteristics.
- Analyze prescribing trends to monitor patient compliance and to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions.
- Maintain records, such as pharmacy files, patient profiles, charge system files, inventories, control records for narcotics, and controlled drugs.
- Provide specialized services to help patients manage conditions such as diabetes, asthma, smoking cessation, or high blood pressure.
- Offer health promotion and prevention activities, for example, training people to use devices such as blood pressure or diabetes monitors.
- Use Medication Therapy Management (MTM) to manage patients with continued evaluation of medication usage, adherence, and related issues. Communicate with prescribers to provide comprehensive care.
- Administer immunizations to customers.
- Responsible for customer satisfaction, promoting pharmacy business through growth plan.
- Supervise and train Pharmacy Technicians and personnel.
- Complete third-party insurance forms and other paperwork
Degree:
- PharmD; Foreign equivalent foreign degree with Michigan Pharmacy and Controlled Substance license accepted.
Licenses:
- Active Michigan Board of Pharmacy License.
- Active Michigan Controlled Substance License.
- Good standing with the Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
Experience and Skills:
48 months of experience as a retail pharmacist to include:
- Simple compounding and dispense medications as prescribed by doctors and dentists, by calculating, weighing, measuring, and mixing ingredients, or overseeing these activities. Ensuring medication reaches the patient in the correct form and dose – this may include tablets, capsules, ointments, injections, inhalers, and creams.
- Experience and certification for administration of immunizations to patients.
- American Red Cross CPR/AED course completion.
- Experience in management of pharmacy inventory.
- Experience in supervising and training pharmacy technicians and staff.
- Experience and certification in Medication Therapy Management.
- Experience in obtaining prior authorization and working with insurance companies to obtain specialty medication.
Please direct resumes to nancy@asrxmi.com
