Pharmacist
Posted on: 5 Nov 2025
Florence, OR
Job Description
Job Summary
This position is responsible for performing all necessary functions to ensure optimal use of medications to achieve specific outcomes that improve a patient's quality of life. Functions included in providing compassionate pharmaceutical care are both cognitive and medication distribution related and include: dispensing and distributing drugs; advising physicians and patients regarding proper usage of prescribed drugs; collaboration with other healthcare professional to plan, monitor, review and evaluate patient effectiveness; monitoring patients for side effects and drug interactions.
What you will do:
Reviews medication orders for appropriateness and accuracy including, but not limited to: contraindications, allergies, dose, route, frequency, duplicate therapy and formulary status.
Interprets, clarifies, and rectifies physician medication and IV orders, including the medication reconciliation process.
Interprets, clarifies, and rectifies prescriptions and selects medications for outpatient dispensing.
Monitors all patients on specified target drugs and initiates pharmacokinetic dosing protocols.
Evaluates drug therapy for appropriateness and makes drug therapy recommendations to clinician.
Prescribes drug therapy per collaborative drug therapy management agreements/Medical Executive Committee approved protocols.
Dispenses the final product for administration and performs patient counseling.
Detect, monitor, and report adverse drug events and medication errors (EIR).
Supervise and train pharmacy technicians to assure accurate order entry, preparation, and proper technique.
Supervise and trains pharmacy interns and externs. May serve as preceptor for the intern or extern as defined by the State Board of Pharmacy.
Participate in development of drug protocols and clinical pathways.
Perform drug usage evaluations on selected drugs and reports results to the Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee. Completes quality assurance auditing as required for prescriptive authority.
What you bring:
Bachelor's Degree Required Pharmacy or
Doctor of Pharmacy Required: from an accredited school
Required: Demonstrated basic pharmacy clinical skills
Required: Demonstrated customer services skills
Required: Pharmacist - Oregon currently licensed or able to obtain license
Preferred: Basic Life Support and
Preferred: Advanced Cardiac Life Support and
Preferred: Pediatric Advanced Life Support
PeaceHealth
Vancouver, WA
PeaceHealth, based in Vancouver, Wash., is a nonprofit Catholic health system offering care to communities in Washington, Oregon and Alaska. PeaceHealth has approximately 16,000 caregivers, a multi-specialty medical group practice with more than 1,200 physicians and providers, and 10 medical centers serving both urban and rural communities throughout the Northwest.
In 1890, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace founded what has become PeaceHealth. Today, PeaceHealth is the legacy of its founding Sisters and continues to serve communities when invited to do so with a spirit of collaboration and stewardship. For more information, visit peacehealth.org.
Our Mission
We carry on the healing mission of Jesus Christ by promoting personal and community health, relieving pain and suffering, and treating each person in a loving and caring way.
Our Core Values
Respect
We respect the dignity and appreciate the worth of each person as demonstrated by our compassion, caring and acceptance of individual differences.
Collaboration
We value the involvement, cooperation and creativity of all who work together to promote the health of the community.
Stewardship
We choose to serve the community and hold ourselves accountable to exercise ethical and responsible stewardship in the allocation and utilization of human, fi nancial and environmental resources.
Social Justice
We build and evaluate the structures of our organization and those of society to promote the just distribution of health care resources.
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IndustryHealthcare
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No. of Employees16,000 +
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Website
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