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THC Long Term Care Pharmacist
•30 days ago
| Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
|---|---|
| Location | Las Vegas, NV Las Vegas, Nevada |
About this job
Total Home Care of Nevada provides durable medical equipment and infusion services to patients in their homes. Total Home Care also provides these services to patients residing in Assisted Living facilities and Residential Care settings under arrangement with the individual facility. Total Home Care's team of healthcare professionals and pharmacists focus on helping each patient reach a higher level of comfort, function and wellness. Whether short-term or long-term care is required, our services and products help provide opportunities for greater independence and quality of life.
Total Home Care Pharmacy is part of Southwest Medical Associates (SMA). Southwest Medical Associates is a multi-specialty group of physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants consisting of over 200 providers, fourteen clinical locations including nine health care centers, five urgent care clinics and an outpatient surgery center. SMA offers patients compassion, innovation, and quality care throughout southern Nevada. SMA is headquartered in the greater Las Vegas, NV area. Southwest Medical Associates is part of the Optum division under the greater UnitedHealth Group umbrella.
Do you have compassion and a passion to help others? Transforming healthcare and millions of lives as a result starts with the values you embrace and the passion you bring to achieve your life's best work SM
Enjoy autonomy and independence!
In this position you will provide pharmacy consultation to a contracted facility and its medical and nursing staff. You will work within acute, subacute, or long term care facilities. You will review charts and monitor the patient's therapy and progress or potential outcome. You will work closely with the patient's physician and facility nursing staff to optimize the safety and efficacy of the patient's medication regimen. You will enjoy a high degree of independence and autonomy.
- Review medication orders, check for appropriateness of therapy and recommend changes in antibiotics, total parenteral nutrition, pain management, anticoagulation
- Participate in quality improvement programs, productivity projects, resource projects
- Intervene in complicated cases where pharmaceutical expertise is required to improve quality of patient care or when appropriateness of therapy is questioned.
- Communicate with Total Home Care pharmacy, nursing, and physicians to resolve and clarify discrepancies and medication orders throughout the various facilities.
- Follow automatic substitution policies, implement formulary, and place stop dates on antibiotic or anticoagulation therapy where appropriate to lower Total Home Care Pharmacy's acquisition costs.
- Exercise positive customer service and communication skills with contracted facility and THC Pharmacy and with other Total Home Care and Family Companies staff.
- Represent Total Home care at all required committee meetings at contracted facilities and within Family Companies.
Requirements
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor Degree in Pharmacy
- Active, unrestricted license to practice as a Pharmacist in the State of Nevada
- 2+ years experience in clinical pharmacy
- Long Term Care or retail experience preferred
- Experience in IV admixture programs, nutritional support including but not limited to the writing of TPN orders, antibiotic therapy including but not limited to aminoglycoside dosing, clinical monitoring, and renal dosing.
- Experience communicating complicated medical information in both written and verbaly.
- Doctor of Pharmacy strongly preferred
Our hiring process is rigorous because we want to ensure the best job and culture fit for you and for us. Please ensure that your application is complete and that all required sections have been filled out (about you, history and certifications, application questions and job questions.)
We encourage you to review our video interviewing process in the event you are requested to complete your interview via this method. Upon successful completion of these steps and a review to determine if your qualifications match the position, you will be advised of your status.
At Optum, we share what might be seen as a surprisingly simple goal: making the health system work better for everyone. We look for people who relentlessly push themselves to go farther. For these high performers, a position on a team at Optum, a business of UnitedHealth Group, is a natural fit. We offer more than the talent, resources and can-do culture—we offer a place to improve the lives of others while doing your life's best work(sm).
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.
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