Description About Us
Cornerstone Healthcare Group, based in Dallas, Texas, was founded in 1990 and provides excellent healthcare services to our patients, residents and their families.
Our employees make a difference, join us so you can too! We pride ourselves on our quality of care, responsive service, and commitment to excellence. We treat each employee, patient and resident like we would a member of our own family, and measure our success by the direct impact we have on improving the quality of life for our employees, patients and residents.
Responsibilities:
The Pharmacist is responsible for providing pharmaceutical services within the hospital that has a patient population ranging in age from 18 years to geriatric experiencing medically complex conditions, general medical-surgical conditions, with rehabilitation and/or wound care needs.
The Pharmacist duties include:
- Verification of medication orders for accuracy and appropriateness. Review of
- medication profiles.
- Assists in the resolution of drug therapy problems.
- Participation in medical and multidisciplinary rounds.
- Perceive and evaluate the medication information needs of patients and families, health care professionals, and other person.
- Use a systematic approach to address medication information needs by effectively searching, retrieving, and evaluating the literature and appropriately communicating and applying the information to the patient care situation.
- Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, QA program, safety, environmental and infection control standards.
- Compounds, packages, labels and dispenses medications.
- Maintains proper inventory control and storage including the secure storage of
- controlled substances and inventory records.
- Enhances professional growth and development through participation in
- educational programs, current literature, in-services and workshops.
- Participates in training pharmacists, technicians, students and residents.
- Participates in education programs for pharmacy staff, attends meetings as
- required and participates on committees as needed.
- Consults with and advises healthcare providers regarding optimal and cost effective utilization of drugs. Where appropriate, documents clinical activities.
- Responsible for adherence to the Department Compliance Plan for Controlled
- substances.
- Performs dispensing and compounding functions utilizing automated technology
- Perform additional duties assigned.
Qualifications Minimum Qualifications:
- ? Ability to project a professional image.
- ? Knowledge of regulatory standards and compliance requirements.
- ? Working knowledge and ability to apply professional standards of practice in job situations.
- ? Strong organizational and analytical skills.
- ? Working knowledge of personal computer and software applications used in job functions (Word processing, graphics, databases, spreadsheets, etc.).
