Randa Abbo

** ***** **** *******, *****, NJ ***** 973-***-**** adrgk9@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Dedicated Clinical Pharmacist offering 20+ years of experience ensuring accurate review, processing, and dispensing of medications in alignment with orders. Skilled in collaborating with team members to expedite urgent requests while maintaining impeccable focus on safety, accuracy, and confidentiality. Advanced communicator with all levels of staff, management, and healthcare providers. Adept at providing evidence-based recommendations to physicians. Proficient in reporting, documentation, and compliance guidelines. Focused on maintaining current knowledge of therapeutic options.

Education

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE 1993 DAMASCUS UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF PHARMACY

Licenses

Licensed pharmacist in the states of New Jersey.

Skills & Abilities

Critical thinking and problem-solving

Teamwork

Willingness to learn

Communication and empathy

Proficient in Microsoft Office

Bilingual (English and Arabic)

Experience

CLINICAL PHARMACIST CORAM / CVS SPECIALTY INFUSION SERVICES, TOTOWA, NJ

08/2006-PRESENT

Home-infusion pharmacy that provides medications and care to patients in the home setting.

Managed one of the largest clean room suites in the company and a staff of 10 or more employees daily. Established workflows to maintain best patient care.

Provide appropriate pharmaceutical services and monitor patient progress to ensure that the care plan and goals of therapy are attained.

Evaluate and monitor a variety of drug therapies including anti-infective, pain management, TPN, Alpha 1-proteinase inhibitors, inotropic, immunoglobulin, and other miscellaneous subcutaneous and intravenous therapies.

Accurately interpret prescriptions and appropriately dispense parenteral medication taking into consideration, patient medical records of allergies, drug-drug interactions and drug disease interactions.

Educate patients on possible drug interactions, potential side effects and optimal methods of administration.

Managed the largest TPN referral source for the Totowa branch and the 4th largest for all Coram.

Trained and mentored new pharmacists and pharmacy technicians

Participated in on-call rotations.

Preceptor for Pharmacy students from local pharmacy schools on clinical care and medication dispensing.

Created worksheets for patients and prescriber order forms that facilitated data analysis of TPN's rather than manual assessment that was implemented by the whole company.

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STAFF PHARMACIST MEDWORLD PHARMACY/AN OMNICARE COMPANY, CHESTNUT RIDGE, NY

12/2004-08/2006

Long-term care pharmacy that provides medications to nursing homes and assisted living centers.

Received and accurately interpreted physician orders.

Properly compounded and dispensed of unit dose oral and IV medications.

Evaluated and monitored patient medical records and medication history to dispense appropriate drug and dosage.

Consulted with healthcare providers to prevent allergies and/or adverse drug reactions and evaluated contraindications to allergies, incompatibilities, drug-drug, drug-disease, drug-food interactions.

PHARMACY SUPERVISOR/STAFF PHARMACIST CVS PHARMACY

WESTCHESTER/ROCKLAND COUNTY, NY

07/2000-12/2004

Pharmacy supervisor at Spring Valley and Yonkers stores, staff pharmacist at Elmsford and Scarsdale stores.

Performed patient education and ensure understanding of medications, dosage, drug therapy and interactions to facilitate a positive outcome.

Facilitated OTC product selections and counseling.

Provided support to pharmacy students, technicians and clerks performing pharmacy functions and oversaw the work to provide and maintain high standard of patient pharmaceutical care.

Performed third party billing and claim processing.

Held regular communications with prescribers, other health care providers, other pharmacies, insurance companies and vendors.

Scheduled II-narcotics-ordering and inventory.

FLOATER PHARMACIST PATHMARK PHARMACY STATEN ISLAND, NY

03/2000-06/2000

Most of above-mentioned retail pharmacist responsibilities

Covered for pharmacists due to vacation or illness at the Staten Island, NY Pathmark locations.

PHARMACY INTERN PATHMARK PHARMACY WEEHAWKEN, NJ

07/1998-03/2000

Shadowed senior pharmacy staff to learn proper procedures.

Used pharmacy software to enter prescription and insurance information.

PHARMACY TECHNICIAN BARNET HOSPITAL PATERSON, NJ

07/1997-09/1997

Volunteered as a technician at the 236-bed hospital pharmacy department.

PHARMACY MANAGER RANDA’S PHARMACY DAMASCUS, SYRIA

01/1994-02/1996

Practiced at a self-owned drugstore.

Performed all retail pharmacy duties.

Managed an entire store for prescriptions and over the counter meds.

Supervised and prepared payroll for staff of technicians.

Managed yearly tax preparation.

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