Pharmacist

PHARMACISTS

Join Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center—one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades—is a 384-bed, not-for-profit, fully accredited community teaching hospital serving Queens since 1891, where we started in just a four-bedroom house. Today, we deliver nationally recognized care in cardiology, stroke, oncology, imaging, and emergency medicine, and are New York State’s only Primary Heart Attack Center and the first Comprehensive Stroke Center.

With an expanded Level I Trauma Center, Pediatric Emergency Department, modern maternity services, and over 120,000 ER visits annually, we offer dynamic opportunities for professional growth, impact and clinical excellence. Through our affiliation with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the upcoming opening of our newly built, state-of-the-art Cancer Center, we continue to expand access to world-class care.

As a safety-net hospital, filling a void for the people in the community, we proudly serve all patients regardless of ability to pay. Join us during this exciting period of growth and help shape the future of healthcare.
Mission: To serve our patients and the community in a way that is second to none.
Vision: To be the premier integrated healthcare delivery system by providing the highest quality, most cost-effective service, which is accessible and sensitive to all.
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center is a Queens-based 404-bed hospital and  Level I Trauma Center.  Healthgrades  2020  America’s Best Hospital report, has ranked us in the top 5% in the Nation for Clinical Excellence.    We are proud of our uncompromising commitment and unparalleled approach in providing the highest quality and most cost-effective service to the many culturally diverse, residents in Queens.  We are currently seeking an experienced Pharmacist for immediate F/T and temporary Day shift position.

DUTIES

As an inpatient Staff Pharmacist you will responsible for a challenging and wide range duties including:

• Interpreting and evaluating physician orders to prepare, calculate, and dispense medication dosage forms.
• Regularly communicating with multiple prescribers and nursing personnel to clarify and modify orders.
• Documenting intervention activities.
• Preparing, labeling, and dispensing medication for all hospital areas.
• Entering and processing medication orders in computerized system to ensure appropriate drug distribution.
• Reviewing, maintaining, and screening medication profiles for allergies, interactions, and therapeutic duplication.
• Advising prescribers, nurses, and patients regarding medication contents, therapeutic actions, utilization and possible adverse reactions and interactions of drugs.
• Compounding and dispensing Parenteral Admixtures.
• Directly supervising and overseeing pharmacy technicians and interns.

Schedule: 

Full time and Temp positions available

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