Staff Pharmacist

Rajendra Bhadbhade

Address: **** **** **** **. ***** Land, TX 77479

Email: *******@*****.***

Tel: 832-***-****

Professional Summary

Highly motivated and hardworking pharmacist licensed in Texas with over 20 years of experience. Providing pharmacy services in a retail pharmacy setting as well as Hospital Pharmacy settings, bringing management, administrative and medical experience to help people achieve better health and contributing life. Outstanding interpersonal skills with a track record of establishing positive relationships with customers, pharmaceutical representatives/manufacturers, medical professionals, healthcare organizations and insurance providers. Able to train and manage diverse pharmacy employees to deliver peak performance. Dedicated to providing quality patient care and fast and accurate medication dispensing. Also was a Staff Pharmacist in hospitals as well as on PRN basis to keep up with those practices. Worked at several different community hospitals such as Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland TX., Matagorda Regional Hospital, and Matagorda, TX. Also was a full time Pharmacist at Matagorda Regional Medical Center in Bay City.

Education

University of Bombay, Goa College of Pharmacy

Master of Pharmacy 1982 • Masters course was by thesis “Synthesis of some Benzimidazoles and test them for their Anti-Helminthic and Antibiotic Activity”. Synthesized 5 new compounds and tested for their anti-helminthic and anti-microbial activity.

Bachelor of Pharmacy 1977 • Bachelor of Pharmacy with courses in Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy and Manufacturing Pharmacy. Involved in community service in the Blood Bank Operations of the Hospital.

FPGEC Certification received in April 20, 1995.

Aseptic Technique Certification from University of Houston. Sept. 1997.

Pharmacist license from the Texas state board of pharmacy received April 1999.

Work Experience:

Pharmerica Corp. Staff Pharmacist

Bay City Matagorda, TX 09/2015 to present

•As a Staff Pharmacist reviewed profiles on all the admitted patient, evaluated dosing, checked and calculated IV dosing including ascertaining efficacy of IV antibiotics.

•Checked on duplications of medications, compatibility and interactions of all medications on the profiles.

•Work closely with Doctors and Nurse Practitioners to obtain best possible patient outcomes.

•Did anti-coagulant dosing when ordered by the physician including monitoring of INR and PTT as applicable and required.

•Worked in close conjunction with the Director to maintain controlled substance inventory and the state mandated records.

•Used the MEDITECH system with fluency to enter order and successfully implement all protocols established by the Pharmacy committee of the Hospital.

EPC Pharmacy PIC Pharmacist

Cypress, TX 06/2015 to 09/2015

•Specialized in Diabetic therapy patients, educated and dosed medications to the specific needs of the patient.

•Dosed both oral as well as injectable diabetic medications based on A1C and blood sugar reading charts brought in by the patients.

•Checked compatibility of all the medications the patients were on with the diabetic medications being inducted in the therapy.

•As a PIC of this Pharmacy, maintained all control substance medication records as required by the state board authorities.

•Managed inventory control and ordering of medications as required by the Pharmacy.

CVS Caremark /Eckerd Corporation Staff, Night and Floater Pharmacist

Houston, TX 09/1998 to 11/2014

•Expertly communicates with patients while protecting their confidential health and drug information and provide counsel to patients having medical questions based on information from the patient’s profile.

•Communicate and interact with physicians, dentists, nurses and others in health related fields to better serve our patient.

•Access to DPS website to ascertain fallibility of controlled substances.

•Access, input and retrieve all information from the computer.

•Fill prescriptions (product selection; counting and measuring drugs; proper vial and bottle selection; labeling of prescriptions) and prepare compounds.

•Service and satisfy the patients’ health care needs in and outside the pharmacy.

•Maintain inventory levels by following defined ordering practices for warehouse and approved outside vendors using the Telexon machine.

•Utilized drug usage report to adjust shelf order bases and to maintain perpetual schedule II inventory.

•Complies with all security/Loss Prevention procedures including setting alarm, providing input to management on performance review and evaluation of subordinate staff on an annual basis.

•Operate a cash register – including: cash, check and charge transactions; bagging merchandise.

•Retrieve and file prescriptions in the appropriate files (including CIIs).

•Pull outdated, damaged and recalled merchandise and prepare for return.

•Complete Third Party rejections.

•Maintain: daily and weekly reports. Maintain Inventory control logs.

•In cases of any dispensing incidents, follows company procedures: notifications and report completion.

•Coordinates and implements Training and Development of Pharmacy Technicians, Interns and other colleagues.

•Establishes, coordinates and maintains the work schedule to best serve the needs of the patient and in accordance with budgeted payroll hours.

•Actively participate in the community health clinics.

•Ability to complete a manual claim form listing. Record necessary transactions on reconciliation log.

•Interviews hourly pharmacy non-exempt employees to ensure compliance with all company procedures and federal and state laws, rules and regulations.

Key Contributions

•Consistently devised ways and means to improve on the pharmacy workflow in order to exceed the patient satisfaction, patient safety and work efficiency.

•Consistently increased script growth in every store I worked at.

•Emphasized on patients at the counseling stage the reason and purpose of medication adherence. This led to increase in script count as well as adherence rates.

•Part of the team that successfully implemented the immunization program of the company which led to achieving higher rate of influenza vaccinations during 2012, 2013 and 2014.

•Did vaccinations for Shingles, pneumonia, meningococcal as required.

•As a NIGHT Pharmacists worked independently all functions including CII ordering as well as servicing single handedly all patients that walked in with the required functions from data entry thru fill, resolution of insurance issues, counseling as well as ringing up of the patient.

Columbia Bellaire Hospital Pharmacy Intern

Bellaire, TX August 1998 to May 1999

•Pharmacy Intern learning Hospital Pharmacy techniques including Data entry, aseptic techniques, IV preparations including TPNs, compounding IV preparations, admixing, cart exchange and other inventory management functions as directed by the Preceptor.

Methodist Hospital ICU Satellite Pharmacy

Pharmacy Technician

Medical Center, Houston, TX January 1997 to June 1998

•Primarily to learn and acquaint with the pharmacy practice in this country as I was a foreign pharmacy graduate. Learnt some good aseptic techniques, data entry, interpret of hospital orders from doctors, IV preparation, compounding and admixing of IV drug preparations, delivery of patient medications on a stat basis along with cart exchange. Use and functionality of Pyxis system.

Managerial Experience

Following is list of Management Experience relating to teaching, quality control & Pharmaceutical & Chemical Sales:

•1993 to 1997: Export Sales Manager, Texus Group Inc. Managing Chemical and Oil field equipment sales.

•1984 to 1992: Chemical Sales Manager at a subsidiary of YBA Kanoo Co in Saudi Arabia.

•1982 to 1984: R & D Executive at Synthofine Chemicals, India managing quality assurance and process control

•1978 to 1982: TA at Goa College of Pharmacy while doing Masters of Pharmacy.

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