Senior Pharmacist

The Indus Hospital


Date: 7 hours ago
City: Lahore
Contract type: Full time
Job Description

To ensure proper handing over and taking over with writing detail note in over register as per protocols.

  • To make sure timely dispensing and distribution of medication, ensuring patients profiles and CPOE for rational drug use, to prevent drug interactions and to promote rational drug use.
  • To contact the physician for in-accuracy of medication order and document intervention (accepted or rejected) accordingly (if intervention is rejected for some reason will be shared with clinical team for to present with formulary committee
  • In case of non-availability of medicine contact physician for switching to available alternate/substitute. If not then process for Non formulary arrangement through NFI policy
  • Ensure all orders are timely processed and prompt delivery of medications to the Nursing unit
  • Monitor and manage inventory stock levels, manage when needed.

7 Prepare and forward departmental requisitions to warehouse

  • Receive supplies from warehouse, physically check batch, expiry quantity, packaging, cold chain if applicable and shelving the stock in proper location at specified temperature
  • Make sure light sensitive, cytotoxic drugs, High alert and look alike and sound alike drugs are placed accordingly.
  • When duty assign at OPD pharmacy where medicines are dispensed directly to patient. pharmacist must counsel the patient and respond to patients’ quires.
  • When duty assigned at oncology/cytotoxic stations pharmacist will do the following
  • Making patient protocols: Check patient profiles, baseline labs of patient like CBC LFT, and Creatinine before making chemotherapy protocol & preparation of regimen, three copies of protocols must be generated one sent to nursing, one to patient, and one for Pharmacy record
  • Double check patient protocol and counter sign.
  • Before issuance and preparation of drugs protocol prepared, CPOE order double check should be done by pharmacist also at chemo processing station.
  • Intrathecal drugs like Methotrexate, Cytarabine, & Hydrocortisone are issues in early morning (before dispensing regular chemo) to avoid errors or by specified by the policy and protocol
  • Patient profile review to make sure for right diagnosis, age and protocol/phase Once chemo regimen prepared pharmacist will counter check/recheck each drug and counter sign
  • Hand over chemo of all patient to nursing for administration, for any reason drug is not administered/refund is also documented in excel sheet for record as per protocol

Note

Indus Hospital & Health Network is an employer that does not tolerate Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. All potential candidates will be subjected to rigorous background checks and controls.”

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