Pharmacist - Home Infusion, PRN
- Piedmont Healthcare
- Athens, GA, USA
Job Description
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Pharmacist - Home Infusion, PRN
Overview:
Experience the advantages of real career change
Join Piedmont to move your career in the right direction. Stay for the diverse teams youll love, a shared purpose, and schedule flexibility that frees you to live for what matters both in and outside of work. Youll feel valued, motivated to be your best, and recognized for your contributions to exceptional patient outcomes. Piedmont leaders are in your corner, invested in your success. Our wellness programs and comprehensive total benefits and rewards meet your needs today, and help you plan for the future.
Responsibilities:JOB PURPOSE:
Performs duties of distribution, documentation and compounding related to drugs, solutions and equipment to meet the needs of patients. Responsible for the reviewing, compounding, dispensing and monitoring of medication therapy for home infusion and specialty pharmacy patients which includes dosing variations, nutritional needs and disease states associated with the various age groups. Supervises pharmacy technician activities including monitoring of all orders filled by auxiliary personnel. Assumes responsibility for competency and self-development in professional pharmacy practice and maintains a working knowledge of the current USP 797/800 rules affecting the home infusion pharmacy. Performs patient focused care clinical activities through regular phone contact with patients to ensure medication adherence, optimal medication therapy outcomes, and compliance with The Joint Commission Standards for Homecare. Communicates with other medical personnel involved in the care of the home patient. Works with billing and intake staff to ensure quality care coordination and proper billing guidelines are followed.
MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIRED:
Graduate of an ACPE accredited school of pharmacy with a Bachelors Degree or higher in Pharmacy.
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
NA
MINIMUM LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION REQUIRED BY LAW:
Licensed as a registered pharmacist in the state of Georgia.
ADDITIONAL PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
One year experience in acute care or Home Infusion preferred.
Piedmont. Real Change Lives Here.
Piedmont is empowering Georgians by changing health care. We continue to fuel Georgia’s growth through safe, high-quality care close to home through an integrated health care system that provides a hassle-free, unified experience. We are a private, not-for-profit organization that for centuries has lived up to our purpose to make a positive difference in every life we touch in the communities we serve.
Across our 2,279 physical locations we care for more than 4.5 million patients and serve communities that comprise 85 percent of Georgia’s population. This includes 26 hospitals, Piedmont Urgent Care centers, 108 QuickCare locations, 2,171 Piedmont Clinic physician practices and nearly 3,600 Piedmont Clinic members. Our patients conveniently engage with Piedmont online, as they scheduled more than 562,000 online appointments and over 121,100 virtual visits.
With more than 47,000 care givers we are the largest Georgia-based employer of Georgians, who all came for the job, but stayed for the people. In 2024 and 2023, Piedmont has earned recognition from Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity and also as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Women. In 2022, Forbes ranked Piedmont on its list of the Best Large Employers in the United States. In addition, Piedmont provided nearly $607 million in community benefit programming and uncompensated care in Fiscal Year 2024.