Gail Maldonado, RPh
Austin, TX ***** 512-***-**** linkedin.com/in/gailmaldonado *********@*****.***
DIVERSIFIED PHARMACIST
Experienced adaptable energetic healthcare professional with proven exceptional interpersonal skills. Thrives on learning and engaging, driven by current events, and determined to collaborate with a company forcefully impacting the COVID-19 pandemic through public vaccination, health education efforts, and empowerment of individuals toward self and community care. Rich pharmaceutical background in Hospital/Clinical Pharmacy, Hospital Pharmacy Management, Consulting, Patient Counseling, Retail Pharmacy, Psychiatry and Chemical Dependency, and Long-Term Care (LTC) Pharmacy. Skills include:
Immunizer Basic Life Support IV Admixture
Healthcare Consultant Teamwork
Inventory Control Pharmacist Pharmacokinetics
Patient Counseling Preceptor Customer Service
EXPERIENCE
AUSTIN PUBLIC HEALTH March 2021 - current
Volunteer Vaccinator
AUSTIN EYE CLINIC January 2021 - current Consultant Pharmacist, PRN
Provide excellent customer service by verifying accurate count of drug cabinets, control drugs, refrigerator, and general area. Assure medication and IVs are properly labeled, dated with BUD if multi-dose container, separated, stored, temperatures recorded, expiration dates checked. Ensure controlled medications are properly accounted for, with doses/waste properly recorded. Confirm appropriate permits and licenses displayed. Verify precisely patient medication orders against dispensing log to maintain accuracy and discern, record correct inaccuracies. Check for recalls, and carefully review controlled substance invoices and forms for completeness, appropriateness, and accuracy. Manage and maintain relevant records.
OMNICARE, A CVS HEALTH COMPANY August 2011 – September 2020
Long Term Care Pharmacist
Delivered outstanding pharmacy services to clients by comprehensively performing drug screening, dispensing, information processing, verification and distribution of medication. Prepared or supervised preparation of IV drugs, maintained perpetual inventory for controlled medications, covered 7 on-call shifts per 28 days after closing shift, maintained security, mentored and trained new personnel.
Provided exemplary physician, client and patient care by facilitating cross-departmental processes and ensuring complete understanding of key responsibilities and necessary procedures required to correctly maintain movement of medication throughout process, thereby ensuring dose availability at appropriate time and a positive patient outcome.
Demonstrated teamwork, commitment and purposeful adaptivity by supporting the training for new pharmacists, simplifying processes, increasing their organizational understanding, and being both attentive and readily available for inevitable questions, thereby pre-emptively decreasing turnover, and improving the work environment.
Demonstrated empathy by going above and beyond to assist patients through processes and incongruencies in healthcare needs and insurance coverage, obtaining necessary information and following to fruition, thereby strengthening and modeling company values.
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ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
WALGREENS PHARMACY; TARGET PHARMACY; MOTHERHOOD, Austin, TX
Staff Pharmacist, Mother
Part time Retail Pharmacist
Raised two beautifully successful children who are gainfully employed and actively contributing to society
Volunteer: Room Mom, Soccer Coach, Librarian, Story Time Reader, Field Trip Coordinator, Gardener, Runner
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, Dallas, TX
Clinical Pharmacist, Preceptor
Decentralized drug utilization review and reconciliation, pharmacokinetics, first dose dispensing, order entry and verification, compounding, nursing in-services, pharmacist in-services, discharge counseling.
Specialized in Internal Medicine, demonstrating outstanding knowledge in Gastroenterology, Pulmonary Care, and Post-Partum. Occasional coverage of Maternal-Fetal Care, Neonatal Intensive Care, Bone Marrow Transplant and Orthopedics.
Served as Clinical Pharmacy Preceptor for University of Texas, College of Pharmacy: Internal Medicine
OWEN HEALTHCARE, INC. HOSPITAL PHARMACY MANAGEMENT, Houston, TX
Director of Pharmacies - Intracare Medical Center and Intracare Medical Pavilion
Provided outstanding service to the management, personnel, and patients of the Psychiatric and Chemical Dependance Facility including Quality Assurance, Drug Utilization Review, monthly Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, budget preparation and review, patient medication education groups, employee evaluation.
Increased revenue and encouraged patient involvement in self solutions by providing an engaging monthly meeting of the Patient Medication Education Group.
Opened Sub Acute Care Pharmacy within the same Facility including licensure, accreditations, DEA licensure, preparation of inventory, formulary, crash cart and hood, Medicare pre-inspection and survey.
EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND AFFILIATIONS
Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, RPh - University of Texas, College of Pharmacy, Austin TX
University of Texas, Pre-pharmacy
Sterile Compounding IV Products for Pharmacists
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE): Jan 2014
Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (BLS) Certification
American Heart Association: January 2021
Pharmacy Based Immunization Certification
American Pharmacists Association: January 2021
Texas Immunization Registry COVID-19 Disaster Reporting
Texas Department of State Health Services: December 2020
Texas Pharmacy Association and American Pharmaceutical Association
November 2020