pharmacist
King Saud University Medical City
Total years of experience :12 years, 0 Months
- Perform daily medication chart review and monitor the therapy for contraindications, drug-drug interactions, drug-food interactions, allergies, appropriateness of drugs and the dosage.
- Evaluate drug therapy orders for appropriateness of dosage, route, frequency, schedule, and duration throughout patient’s hospital treatment course. Intervening by direct communication with the physician when needed.
- Suggest appropriate therapeutic alternatives for Non-Formulary Medications.
- Prepare and dispense medications including oral preparations, sterile preparations, TPNs, and chemotherapy safely and accurately using appropriate techniques.
- Adjustment of the dosage regimen based on TDM results and the patient’s clinical response.
- Document all clinical activities and interventions accurately and completely.
- Responds with the code blue team in case of CPR when called.
- Responds to the hospital poisoning hot-line.
- Dispensing outpatient prescriptions and prescriptions for discharged patients.
- Dispensing inpatient orders based on unit dose dispensing system.
- Preparing and quality-checking sterile medications including IV medications, TPNs and IV Fluids.
- Providing patient education for outpatients.
- Dispensing.
- Counseling patients about proper use of medications either prescription or OTC medications.
- Maintain records, such as pharmacy files, inventories, registries of poisons, narcotics, and controlled drugs.
Rotations:
>>Oncology, Cardiovascular, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Critical care:
Responsibilities:
• Reviewing patients’ medication regimens regularly.
• Rounding with medical teams to provide drug information and collaboratively monitor patients’ responses to their medications.
• Adjusting medication doses based on KFT, LFT and Age.
• Screening patients’ medications for Drug/Drug and Drug/Food Interactions.
• Providing patients medication counseling for in-patients or upon discharge.
>> Hospital Pharmacy:
Responsibilities:
• Dispensing outpatient prescriptions and prescriptions for discharged patients.
• Dispensing inpatient orders based on unit dose dispensing system.
• Providing patient education for outpatients upon request.
• Aseptic preparation of cytotoxic drugs for cancer patients.
>> Ambulatory Care, Disease State Management(5):
Responsibilities:
• Evaluate patient’s medication profile to ensure that each medication is indicated, effective, safe, and that the patient is compliant with therapy.
• Providing patients’ medication counseling.
- Dispensing
- Counseling patients about proper use of medications either prescription or OTC
medications.
- Dispensing
- Counseling patients about proper use of medications either prescription or OTC
medications.
Doctor of Pharmacy Degree (Pharm.D), (June 2013), Faculty of Pharmacy, Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST), P.O. Box 3030, Irbid 22110, Jordan. (GPA: 78.5% "Very Good")
Higher Secondary School Certificate, (2007), Jabir bin Zaid Secondary School, Muscat- Oman. (GPA: 94.8%)
