Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Job Description: - Ensures through his actions, either directly or indirectly, that a superior quality of medical treatment, compassion and understanding is given to every patient served at the NMC Hospitals and Clinics. - Ensures prompts and accurate delivery of medications to patients. - Ensures that Physician’s Orders and patient medication profiles are reviewed, processed and checked properly. - Ensures that drug information is provided to health care professional and patients to assist in providing rational drug therapy. - Ensures that orientation to new staff is carried out. - Ensures that prescriptions are appropriate and accurately filled with detailed instructions by interpreting each prescription before filing to ascertain if strength and dosage prescribed is within patient tolerance. - Ensures that patient profile is reviewed to check for Drug vs. Drug Interaction, Drug vs. Patient Allergies and Drug vs. Patient Diet restrictions and dosage suitable. - Ensures that daily preparations of medicines for inpatients are carried out based on the unit dose system. - Ensures that the doses for I.V. Admixtures, TPN and Compounding Cytotoxic drugs are properly calculated according to the written policy and procedures. - Ensures of computerized charging, verification and modification of inpatient medication for specific patients. - Ensures that current and accurate drug information to health care professionals is provided. - Ensures that confidentiality and security of patient information is maintained as per hospital policy and professional pharmacy standards. - Ensures that monthly controlled drug requirements and stock level are well estimated; controls and initiates storehouse orders for all appropriate areas. - Ensures to participate in the inpatient counseling and training in Pharmacy Students. - Ensure to assist in updating the Hospital Formulary. - Ensures an accurate and proper storage of any new delivered medicines. - Ensures that the process of computerization is observed, including drug dispensing, inventory, Drug vs. Drug interaction, Allergies, Refills and validity of prescriptions. - Ensures that periodic spot-check for all controlled and narcotic drugs are performed according to the MOH to guarantee inventory correctness. - Ensures that the operating manuals for the Pharmacy unit are reviewed every two (2) years. - Ensures to participate in the continuing education, to keep abreast of new pharmaceuticals, equipment techniques and antidote information. - Ensures that current listing of physicians and dentists’ signature specimens (badge number), abbreviations and clerical symbols recommending and implementing approved changes are kept and filed. - Ensures that infection control procedures are implemented and maintained. - Ensures to comply with the hospital dress code. - Responsible to educate patients /families as per their needs and to implement their whole role regarding patient / family education process as mention in patient & family education policy and procedure (NSP-GEN-014) including documentation in patient medical record. - They are knowledgeable about their essential role in patient and family education. - Involves the patient/families in plan of care and respects patients/families regarding their goals and choices of patient care. - Provides health promotion and health teaching thru methods appropriate to a patients’ developmental level, learning needs, readiness and ability to learn, language preference, culture and situations. - Allots time necessary to assess, plan implement and evaluate patient education provided to patients/families with appropriate documentation. - Performs other applicable tasks and duties assigned within the realm of the employee’s knowledge, skills and abilities. - Performs additional tasks and duties as assigned by Superiors. Qualifications: A minimum of: Education: Required B.S. Pharmacy Graduate. Licensed Pharmacist, according to laws and regulations; Experience: A minimum of: Two (1-3) years experience as a Pharmacist in a Pharmacy of a large acute care hospital; Skills - Proficient in the use and application of new medications and technology. - Problem solving ability and analytical thinking preferred. - Customer service skills; exhibits professionalism, effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills. - Fluency in verbal and written English for Arabic and Non-Arabic speakers. - Computer literate.

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