CARRIE C. CARPINTERI

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Professional Summary

PharmD graduate with demonstrated versatility in adapting to ever-increasing complexity in the healthcare industry. Committed to providing quality pharmaceutical care as an essential link in disease management.

Skills

Medication Inventory Management Prescription drug interaction assessment Inventory maintenance system Flexibility in scheduling

Conflict resolution ability

• Patient Counseling

•Immunization certification

•Perform immunization evaluation

•CPR certification

•Pharmacy Inventory Skills

In good standing with the Connecticut Board of • Pharmacy Audits

Pharmacy

•MTM skills using Mirixa

Work History

Pharmacist Floater 01/2014 to Current

Price Chopper Pharmacy

Pharmacy Manager and Staff Pharmacist, 01/2008 to 1/2014

Price Chopper – Newington, CT and Vernon, CT

Helped achieve pharmacy business objectives by increasing sales and gross margins

Checked prescriptions for appropriate dosage, drug interactions, allergies and contra-indications before dispensing medications.

Partnered with management team to develop and implement in-store programs to increase sales. Coordinated the pharmacy staff schedule and assisted with personnel monitoring and performance evaluations.

Effectively prioritized tasks and organized workflow to increase efficiency.

Complied with all federal laws, company policies and procedures and state regulations regarding intern, technician and assistant training and licensure.

Recommended appropriate clinical programs such as immunization, MTM (Medication Therapy Management) and DCS (Diabetes Care Specialist).

Directly supervised 3 Pharmacy Technicians, interns and support staff while on duty. Communicated regularly with physicians, nurses, insurance companies and managed care organizations.

Hosted multiple successful annual healthcare education and flu clinics.

Provided medication therapy management to patients using Outcomes and Mirixa.

Properly instructed pharmacy students and residents on introductory and advanced pharmacy

practice rotations.

Saved patients money and increased pharmacy profit margins with therapeutically equivalent and more cost-effective generic drugs.

Pharmacy Manager, 01/2003 to 01/2008

Brooks / Rite Aid – Newington, CT

Pharmacy Intern 2001-2002

Staff Pharmacist 2002 -1/2003

Sun Script Health Care Group- Rocky Hill CT

Enter and Review orders

Performed verification of Blister packs for the long term care facilities

Various IV preparations and Verifications

Provided Nursing staff with information on IV compatibilities

Performed In services for Nursing staff using power point presentations

Pharmacy Technician and Intern 1997-2001

Hartford Hospital Pharmacy

Filled orders and delivered to floors

Monitored/reviewed Medication Charts

Prepared IVs per orders

-TPNS

-Antibiotics

-Stat IVS

-Narcotics

Assisted Clinical Pharmacist on floors in reviewing orders and making recommendations

Education:

PharmD: Pharmacy, 2002

UCONN - Storrs Mansfield, CT

Bachelor of Science: Biology (Focus on Molecular Genetics), 1998

Central Connecticut State University - New Britain, CT

Accomplishsment

Saved patients up to 50% of prescription costs by substituting therapeutically equivalent generic drugs.

Directly supervised Pharmacy Technicians, interns and support staff. Performed drug utilization reviews

Immunization certification

CPR Certification

Research Assistant

Assisted in the Splicing of the Ecoli ATPase sequence in order to see its ability to be utilized as a vehicle for drug transport and the development of amplification protocol for genome –wide expression.

Monitored experiments utilizing PCR, Gel Electrophoresis, and UV spectrometry.

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