Manager Pharmacy

YOUSTNA RIYAD

*** ******** ** *******, ** ***** United States

Cell Phone 713-***-****

********.*****@*******.***

Texas Certified Pharmacist with hospital and retail experience

LICENSE AND EDUCATION

•TEXAS PHARMACIST LICENSE NO. #56724

•Pharmacy Sterile Products certification

•Certified Immunizer

•CPR

•Bachelor of Clinical Pharmacy: Tanta University, Ghargeya, Egypt.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Walgreens Pharmacy

Store #9163 Northeast corner of Blackhawk & Beltway 8 Frontage

Pharmacist, Since September 2015 till present

Memorial Hermann SouthEast Pharmacy,

11800 Astoria Blvd., Houston, TX, 77089, phone No. 281-***-****

Pharmacist-intern, November 2014 - July 2015

Reference: Jay Kuruvilla, Pharmacy Operations Manager at Memorial Hermann SE pharmacy

Cell: 832-***-****

•Clinical duties:

•Verifying physician orders: working with pharmacists during various shifts. Learning how to verify physician orders, checking the indications, patient labs, allergies, history and avoiding order duplications.

•Sterile compounding: preparing IV admixtures including chemo orders, TPNs and other large or small IV bags to all kinds of patients from neonates to geriatrics.

•Discharge Counseling: counseling discharged patients about their medications to maximize the patient outcome. Talking about the proper administration and the frequency, drug or food interaction, the possible side effects and how to avoid them, medication storage and handling and checking for any duplication.

•Anticoagulant Counseling: counseling patient who are on oral anticoagulants, ex Warfarin, Xarelto, Eliquis and Paradaxa. Counseling the patient about the administration, the reason for taking the drug, the drug food interaction, major and minor signs of bleeding, the INR monitoring and the DVT, PE, stroke symptoms.

•Chemo Orders: adjusting the chemo order specifically for each patient according the physician order, BSA of the patient and the treatment plane. Also managing the proper storage and dilution for the drug to be perfectly effective for the patients.

•Renal Dose Adjustment: taking the appropriate decision about changing the renal cleared medications according to the hospital protocol.

•Warfarin Monitoring: monitoring the INR ratio for patients on Warfarin and making any necessary changes.

•ADR Report: Adverse Drug Reaction report is a report to monitor patients taking any antidotes and the reason why they are taking them.

•Collaborates with other health care professionals as needed for problem resolution or achievement of identified patient specific goals.

•Technical duties:

•Unit Dose: receiving the med requests, filling the labels and writing down the expiration dates. Answering the phone and helping the nurses.

•Pyxis duties: doing all the pyxis duties EX, filling the pyxis and the stuck out, returning meds without removal and all other pyxis duties.

•Compounding: performing none sterile compounding.

•Manages inventory to minimize waste and expired drugs in the work area.

Bayshore Pharmacy, Outpatient Services:

3315 Burke RD, Pasadena, TX 77504. Phone no. 713-***-****

Pharmacist intern, January 2015- June 2015

Reference: Ellen Morcos PIC at Bayshore Pharmacy, cell: 732-***-****

•Receiving all kind of prescriptions: ex, electronic RX, fax RX, walk in patient RX. Filling the medications or supervising the technicians filling them.

•Receiving phone prescription.

•Transfer prescriptions.

•Counseling the patients: about new medications, proper administration, side effects storage and OTC counseling.

•Documentation: documenting the Narcotics RX CII, RX CII-V and other RX separately.

•Narcotics prescriptions: checking the patients history and make the appropriate judgments about dispensing the narcotic medications.

•Dermatology Clinic, Outpatient Services, Cairo, Egypt

Pharmacist, May 2011 – November 2012, October 2007 – May 2008

•Dispensing written prescriptions.

•Compounding non sterile pharmaceutical preparations (ex: ointments, suspensions, dyes).

•Preservations of vaccines and antidotes.

•Retail Pharmacy, Cairo, Egypt

Pharmacist, January 2009 – September 2009

•Dispensing prescriptions.

•Counseling customers and answering all their questions about their medical plans, side effects and OTCs.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Fluent in English and Arabic

COMPUTER SKILLS

MS Word, Database, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet browsing

Pharmacy Softwares: One Source, Pharmnet, Intercome Plus, Mecckasen.

REFERENCES

Upon request

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