Prescribing Pharmacist
WALGREENS CO
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :7 years, 3 أشهر
Treated patients in multi‐morbidity clinics and in partnership with primary healthcare colleagues and implement improvements to patient’s medicines, including prescribing and modifying patient therapy.
•Conducted thousands of extensive medication reconciliations for patients with multi‐morbidities and modified hundreds of cases with critical errors by implementing prescribing changes as an independent prescriber and ordering relevant monitoring tests.
•Managed case loads and clinics as an independent prescriber for conditions where medicines have a large component (e.g. medicine optimization for stable angina symptom control, warfarin monitoring and dose adjustment for patients requiring long‐term anticoagulants).
•Analyzed prescribing trends to monitor patient compliance and to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions.
•Ordered pharmaceutical supplies, medical supplies, or drugs, maintaining stock and storing and handling it properly.
•Maintained records, such as pharmacy files, patient profiles, charge system files, Inventories, control records for radioactive nuclei, or registries of poisons, narcotics, or controlled drugs.
•Compounded and dispensed medications prescribed by physicians, pharmacists, and dentists, by calculating, weighing, measuring, and mixing ingredients, or oversee these activities.
•Ordered pharmaceutical supplies, medical supplies, or drugs, maintaining stock and storing and handling it properly.
Provided information and consultations regarding drug interactions, side effects, dosage, and proper medication storage
•Assessed the identity, strength, or purity of medications.
•Maintained records, such as pharmacy files, patient profiles, charge system files, Inventories, control records for radioactive nuclei, or registries of poisons, narcotics, or controlled drugs.
•Compounded and dispensed medications prescribed by physicians, pharmacists, and dentists, by calculating, weighing, measuring, and mixing ingredients, or oversee these activities.
•Analyzed prescribing trends to monitor patient compliance and to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions.
•Ordered pharmaceutical supplies, medical supplies, or drugs, maintaining stock and storing and handling it properly.
Complied with all state and federal regulations and Medical Center policies and procedures relating to drug dispensing, including appropriate handling of drug products, adherence to security procedures, and completion of necessary documentation. This includes appropriate control and dispensing of controlled dangerous substances and investigational drugs.
• Reviewed and dispensed medication orders and clarifies any and all potential problems with orders.
•Monitored patient drug therapy regimens for allergies, drug-drug interactions, drug-food interactions, and potential adverse reactions.
•Prepared admixtures using aseptic technique (e.g., IV solutions, TPN, chemotherapy).
•Performed assigned unit inspections to assure proper maintenance and storage of medication supplies, including emergency drug supplies.
•Managed activities of ancillary personnel (Pharmacy Technicians andAssistant/Couriers).
•Employed principles of safe medication practice as dictated by departmental and organizational policies and procedures.
•Identified the needs of the patient population served and modified and delivered care that is specific to those needs (i.e., age, culture, language, hearing and/or visually impaired, etc.)
Clinical research and practice
•Implemented engaging teaching strategies and learning models while lecturing pharmacy students.
•Guided students in evaluating and presenting formulary analyses and clinical trial data to healthcare decision-makers.
•Worked with students to develop and refine effective communication strategies with medical colleagues and patients.
Research Experience
TWENTY SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEWS:
Cost-effective and evidence-based solutions to governments, hospitals, and payers.
FOUR RECENTLY ACCEPTED PUBLICATIONS:
WoCoVa, EHS, and AHS Conferences.
THREE CLINICAL RESEARCH STUDIES
), HEOR Center of Excellence
Medical Affairs-related experience
•Enrolled in MSL training and onboarding by BD Diabetes care MSL leaders.
•Completed Diabetes MSL onboarding and presented insulin-needle related data to interested medical colleagues.
•Created impact by bridging the connection between medical colleagues designing an investigator-sponsored clinical trial and Becton, Dickinson And Company.
•Reactively engaged with key thought leaders, domestic, and foreign government stakeholders to answer clinical concerns, including data gaps and unmet needs related to hospital-acquired infectious diseases, peripheral arterial disease, peripheral occlusive devices for hepatocellular carcinoma, diagnostic systems for hematological disorders, and oncology compounding solutions.
•Achievement: Established meaningful connections with thought leaders investigating unmet needs around the use of stem cells for autoimmune conditions, relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, and peripheral interventions.
HEOR- related experience
•Promoted from HEOR internship to Global HEOR Fellowship.
•Strategically planned, generated, and submitted four literature review publications, with cross-functional teams.
•Implemented educational sessions for sales representatives to train them in presenting an economic model to payers.
•Achievements: Provided objective clinical data, which led to the adoption of Egyptian, Qatari, Jordanian, Emirati laws and regulations for the use of safety-engineered devices to reduce occupational-exposures among healthcare workers. Gathered insights and generated evidence to enhance the Pyxis MedStation ES dispensing cabinet, which ultimately led to 3 "Best in KLAS 2020" awards.