Pharmacist - UAEn

**ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Main Responsibilities**
- Knowledgeable in the company's policies and procedures
- Promoting good interpersonal relationships by modeling professional behavior and practice
- Manage pharmacy operations, performing administrative duties and buying and selling non-pharmaceutical merchandise
- Assess the identity, strength and purity of medications
- Develop current evidence-based educational information for other pharmacists, doctors, and/or patients
- 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 storage
- Analyze prescribing trends to monitor patient compliance and to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions
- Order and purchase pharmaceutical supplies, medical supplies, and drugs, maintaining stock and storing and handling it properly
- Maintain records, such as pharmacy files, patient profiles, charge system files, inventories, and registries of poisons, narcotics, and controlled drugs
- Advise patients and physicians on the selection of medication brands, medical equipment and health-care supplies
- Compound and dispense medications as prescribed by doctors, by calculating, weighing, measuring, and mixing ingredients, or oversee these activities
- Offer health promotion and prevention activities, for example, training people to use devices such as blood pressure or diabetes monitors
- Plan, implement, and maintain procedures for mixing, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals, according to policy and legal requirements, to ensure quality, security, and proper disposal
- Responsible for procurement of registered, unregistered, and controlled pharmaceutical supplies through external sources
- The nature of demands of employment may necessitate attendance at work at times other than and in addition to the normal working hours (i.e. working shift cycles to suit the needs of PIMC) and expected to comply with any reasonable directions of PIMC to this effect

**Operational Responsibilities**
- Fills physician orders for the clinical areas
- Compounds extemporaneous preparations as needed
- Prepares sterile admixtures-intravenous preparations
- Prepares ward stock requisitions
- Conducts monthly pharmacy inventory
- Repackaging tablets and capsules using the Cadet Machine
- Checks and records pharmacy room temperature and humidity
- Monitors and records pharmacy refrigerator temperature twice daily
- Ensures that medications are stored in appropriate and secured conditions
- Maintains the cleanliness of the pharmacy areas
- Be able to support other pharmacist in their day-to-day workload
- Maintains adequate stock of medications in the shelves
- Perform medication management audit along with other pharmacist in an appointed time
- Delivers medication request as required by the clinical unit
- Monitors the expiration dates of medications
- Attends meetings, seminars, workshops designed to improve knowledge and pharmacy services

**IV PHARMACY ROOM**
- Accepts IV orders from the clinical areas to be prepared in IV room
- Process the order based on the standard procedure
- Receives enquiry about IV medication orders
- Prepares standard labeling requirements for IV orders
- Prepares IV admixtures such as piggy bags and syringes for antibiotics inside the laminar flow hood using aseptic technique
- Prepares TPN and large volume IV preparations
- Check proper storage of IV drugs
- Maintains stock level of drugs inside the IV room
- Maintains the cleanliness and orderliness of the area

**IN-PATIENT PHARMACY**
- Runs reports for ward cart filling
- Maintains sufficient quantity of drugs on the shelves
- Fills unit-dose ward cart exchange
- Process initial dose orders
- Runs update for final cart exchange filling
- Check patients’ transfers and discharge
- Fills missing doses and fills ward stock requisitions
- Compounds extemporaneous preparations
- Conducts monthly nursing unit ward stock level inspection
- Checks and monitors expirations dates of compounded preparations

**Communication**
- Communicates with a range of people on a range of matters
- Communicates appropriately and clearly to Charge Nurse, Shift in Charge, coworkers and other members of the multidisciplinary team
- Consults with other departments as appropriate to provide a multidisciplinary approach to the patient’s needs
- Communicates the mission, vision and values of the facility

**Personal and People Development**
- Develops own skills and knowledge and provides information to others to help their development
- Recognizes the necessity to continuously develop skills and acquire additional knowledge appropriate to the position
- Attends training sessions offered by NMC ProVita, and upholds professional portfolio and 20 CME per year as required for licensure
- Dresses appropriately to the expectations of the specific work area