Description
Renown Health, the largest, not-for-profit healthcare network in northern Nevada, is located in beautiful Reno-Tahoe – and we’re hiring talented healthcare professionals like you! Apply today to join our team and enjoy the rewarding opportunities a role with Renown can offer you both professionally and personally. Renown Health is proud to be a national healthcare leader, distinguished by its award-winning services and state-of-the-art medical facilities. Committed to putting People First, Renown is also recognized with the Best Employee Experience award by Ragan’s Workplace Wellness (2024) and Best Place for Working Parents® (2024).
Renown Health Pharmacy is recognized with the Accreditation Commission for Health Care and URAC accreditation.
Apply today for a $30,000 Sign-On Bonus & Relocation Assistance!
About Position:
Renown Health is seeking a passionate and highly motivated Oncology Clinical Pharmacist to join our team. This position is primarily responsible for providing quality pharmaceutical care, protocol implementation, and drug distribution for patients with cancer in our inpatient oncology unit and outpatient infusion center. We are looking for an experienced or highly trained oncology practitioner who can provide and be responsible for drug therapy outcomes for individual patients as an integral member of the multidisciplinary healthcare team.
This position includes providing pharmaceutical care to each of its customers to varying extents; the preparation, distribution, and handling of pharmaceuticals; advise for administration, provision of drug information and general drug therapy monitoring within the Renown Health System.
Responsibilities:
- Harmoniously bridge the distributive responsibilities of the pharmacy with the clinical responsibilities.
- Ensure that medications are dispensed in a timely, accurate, safe, and cost-effective manner with the assistance of the technical staff.
- Monitor drug therapy in various areas including parenteral nutrition, pharmacokinetic monitoring, renal dosing, and IV-to-oral medication conversion.
- Recommend appropriate drug therapy to the physician, monitoring therapy for desired outcomes per protocol, and is also expected to initiate appropriate formulary policy procedures.
- Communicate with physicians and nursing staff regarding drug therapies is expected to be appropriate and effective.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Assure accuracy in the preparation of medications, records, labels, and documentation in accordance with State and Federal rules and regulations, and hospital policy.
- Maintain, update, and monitor each patient's medication profile; and to ensure the timely and accurate processing of all patient charges.
- Assist in the training of pharmacists, technicians, interns, and students as well as the supervision of pharmacy interns, students and technicians for accuracy, adherence to policy and procedure, and coordination of workload.
- Be a resource to management with respect to quality initiatives participation, serving as a liaison between nursing and pharmacy, and providing information to improve and enhance services.
The incumbent will be required to work varying shifts and days to meet the needs of the Department of Pharmacy which operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Overtime may be requested. The incumbent is expected to attend staff meetings, pharmacist meetings, etc.
Apply today on https://www.renown.org/careers/clinical-pharmacist_cp-oncology
Learn more about the Pharmacy team on https://www.renown.org/blog/department-spotlight-pharmacy
Requirements:
Please see job posting for minimum qualifications and additional information.
* The incumbent may perform other duties as assigned. This position does provide patient care.
Fighting the good fight to ensure all who walk through our doors are treated equally is not only our mission but also our duty. Renown Health treats all patients, visitors and applicants for employment opportunities with equality in a welcoming manner that is free from discrimination in terms of race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability or cultural backgrounds. Renown’s Community Benefit mission – driven by the passion and dedication of our employees – is to reduce health disparities, provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services to our patient population, promote community wellness and improve access to care for vulnerable populations. This includes offering free and discounted care to those unable to afford healthcare, and our partnerships with over 160 community-based organizations, area schools, human and social service agencies, and government and business leaders to address health and well-being. We encourage Renown employees to be active in our community and health system’s events that align with our mission.
