Facilities Compliance Pharmacist
Resume:
Edith Hauser
Experienced Pharmacist pursuing Pharmacy Manger, Staff Pharmacist position in Eastern
North Carolina
Merry Hill, NC 27957
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I am a very motivated and extremely experienced pharmacist looking for a new team to join. I am seeking a postition as a full or part time Staff Pharmacist or Pharmacist manger in Northeastern North Carolina. I have excellent people skills and have over 30 years practicing pharmacy in both Hospital and Retail pharmacy settings. I would consider remote Pharmacist order entry as well as Long Term care practices. I am only currently licensed to practice in North Carolina only. I am very eager to find a position that gives me a good work life balance. I am searching for a great team to join and would like to find that position as soon as possible. My resume details my many talents. I hope to hear from your team soon.
Personal email: **********@*****.***
Phone: 1-252-***-****
Willing to relocate to: New Bern, NC - Greenville, NC - Washington, NC Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Work Experience
Pharmacist
PharmaCare Services - Plymouth, NC
November 2021 to Present
I have been employed as a Pharmacist at Washington County Regional Medical Center. I am pursuing a more stable position part or full time position as a Pharmacist in Eastern North Carolina. Pharmacist-Manager
Windsor Community Health Center Pharmacy - Windsor, NC February 2021 to Present
Overall management of all pharmacy personnel. Perform all the duties as required by the North Carolina Board of pharmacy as well as duties required by the specifics of a 340-B clinic.
- I am very good at being delegated to. Other staff members refer to me as a true team player. I stepped up to this role when our facility could not bill 3rd parties due to the inability to obtain a DEA number. The original DEA license for this facility was obtained upon my employment as Pharmacist Manager in February 2021.
- In charge of inventory control and ordering of medications for this primarily 340-b NC state licensed pharmacy from first Mutual Drug Company then from McKesson Wholesalers.
- Essential duties of Pharmacist manager. At times I serve as both Pharmacist and Pharmacy technician. My duties include order entry, as well as counting medication and reordering stock daily as needed. Other duties include taking phone calls, checking patient data including allergies and in this very unique small rural health clinic. Also drawer balancing each morning if necessary as well as taking money and credit cards for payment.
- Work with both the Chief of Medical staff and CEO to establish pricing for medications for both 340-b and non 340-b patients.
- Work closely with all the providers: Doctors, Physicians Assistants, Family Nurse Practitioners and the nursing staff to provide optimal medication therapy for all of our patients. Including daily, weekly and monthly reports as requested by administration.
- My role includes often suggesting available cost effective medications for providers both prior to and after their submission of e-prescriptions in order to provide optimal therapy for patients in accordance with their ability to to pay or not pay. Relief Pharmacist
Windsor Community Health Center Pharmacy - Windsor, NC November 2020 to February 2021
Overall management of all pharmacy in the absence of the Pharmacist Manger. These duties included fielding phone calls from providers, refill requests, and general medication related information for both clinic personnel and patients.
- Checking patients out via cash register and credit card machine and draw balancing when the Pharmacy technician was absent.
Relief Pharmacist
DrugCo Discount Pharmacy - Ahoskie, NC
June 2015 to February 2021
Overall management of the pharmacy and personnel overseeing 3 pharmacy technicians one DME personnel and the over the counter personnel in the absence of the Pharmacist Manager or other staff pharmacists.
- My key role during this position was to counsel patients on new medications, give advice on Over the Counter medications prescription medication, taking phoned in prescriptions from providers as well as giving and taking transfers.
- I was also very eager to obtain my immunization certification and part of my responsibility was the administration of primarily the Flu shot annually and on occasion the Shingles Vaccines. This was prior to the onslaught of COVID so I have never had the occasion to administer a COVID vaccine while an immunizer at this site.
- As a member of the Drug Co Team, I obtained my BLS certification and renewed it as necessary every other year. I also did all in-services required by Drug Co and the BOP and the NCIR in order to keep up my Immunization Certification that I acquired in 2018. I kept up my OSHA requirements including but not limited to keeping my Blood Borne Pathogen certification up to date.
Director of Pharmacy
Washington County Hospital - Plymouth, NC
August 2012 to June 2015
Management of the pharmacy including supervision of keeping a per petal inventory of all narcotics with the help of the PYXIS machine. This position was in a rural 25 bed hospital. My duties included but were not limited to, the supervising of all pharmacy personnel according to the standards of the facility as well as the standards of the BOP and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAHO).
- Was in charge of the establishment of protocols for antibiotic therapy and set up protocols through pharmacy and therapeutics committee that allowed the pharmacy to review, adjust, and prescribe antibiotics if requested by provider including but not limited to: Zosyn, Vancomycin, TPN, dopamine, dobutamine and other intravenous and oral therapy.
- In charge of the establishment of protocols for antibiotic therapy and set up protocols through pharmacy and therapeutics that allow the pharmacy to review, adjust, and prescribe antibiotics if requested by provider. Including conversion from IV to po therapy.
- Manage operating budget, perform revenue analysis, make key purchasing decisions and track department expenditures. Turn in daily reports to CEO to insure charges are accurate. Actually place the weekly or bi-weekly order to Wholesaler, Amerisource Bergen for medications.
- Attended daily stand up meeting with CEO to insure safety and allow all department managers to communicate.
- Serve as chairperson of the Code Blue Committee. Used ACLS guidelines to make sure all our crash carts are as standardized as possible. Typed and distributed agendas and meeting minutes to all members of the committee.
- Worked within a very limited budget for drug procurement.
- Mixed all IV's including InFed as well as all the chemotherapy on a daily basis.
- As manager it was my job to make sure sure our facility is compliant with all federal and state laws as governed by OSHA, CMS, DNV and the NCBOPharmacy.
- Attended daily patient care conferences to discuss inpatient's current medication therapy.
- Attended monthly Medical Staff meetings where I served as the chair of our P&T committee.
- Attended monthly Environment of Care meetings where I served as pharmacy liaison.
- Attend monthly QA-PI meetings where I tracked several indicators to insure our facilities compliance with all state and national standards.
Director of Pharmacy/Pharmacist Manager
Vidant Pungo Hospital - Belhaven, NC
October 2011 to August 2012
Overall management of the pharmacy and personnel. In charge of pharmacy inventory control and formulary management. Managed budget and tracked department expenses.
- My key role during transition from Pungo District Hospital to Vidant Pungo Hospital was to convert from Omnicell to PYXIS (a different automated dispensing technology which I was and am very familiar with since I implemented the first PYXIS at what is now Roanoke Chowan Hospital back in the 1990's). During conversion I learned the basics of order entry and verification of the Vidant Pharmacy Computer system.
- As a member of the Vidant Team I attended the monthly Pharmacy Directors meeting at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville and served on that committee. This Vidant committee included all the acting Vidant pharmacists at that time. Our job was to make system-wide formulary decisions for all Vidant facilities and take those changes back to our facility.
- I worked diligently during this key transitional phase to insure the pharmacy switch was as smooth as possible. This involved working closely with the Vidant IT department as well as the entire pharmacy group from several Vidant facilities. I was in charge of the switching over to Vidant protocols and order sets during this key transition. During this experience I became familiar with Physician order entry. Vidant order sets and verification of orders using the EPIC system. This process has surely evolved over the past few years but I am certain I would be able to remember the basics and catch on quickly in another Vidant facility.
- I insisted that I stay on in order to make the transition from Pungo District Hospital to Vidant Pungo Hospital prior to taking on my next role as Pharmacist Manager at a facility closer to home and at a higher rate of pay. PRN
Martin General Hospital - Williamston, NC
2001 to 2012
Provided pharmaceutical care which included, but was not limited to drug regimen review, IV therapy, mixing chemotherapy, and pharmacokinetic dosing.
- Responsible for order entry, ongoing user support, implementation, system enhancements, and problem analysis and resolution of PYXIS and other operating systems in multiple hospitals.
- Other responsibilities included rounding on floors, interacting with both physicians and patients.
- Worked at the need of the hospital usually on weekends and when the staff pharmacist took vacation or was sick. (This the overlap in timeframes). Director of Pharmacy
Pungo District Hospital - Plymouth, NC
January 2010 to October 2011
Overall management of the pharmacy and all personnel. In charge of pharmacy inventory control and formulary management as well and audit and stocking of the PYXIS machines on a daily basis.
- In charge of the establishment of protocols for antibiotic therapy and set up protocols through pharmacy and therapeutics that allow the pharmacy to review, adjust, and prescribe antibiotics and anticoagulants as required.
- Managed operating budget, performed revenue analysis, made key purchasing decisions and trained pharmacists and technicians on the use of the PYXIS machine and converted the facility from Omnicell to PYXIS Automated Dispensing cabinets.
- When the CEO said we were becoming a Vidant Facility I insisted on seeing that transition occur and occur smoothly so I put my personal life aside to insure this happened.
Director of Pharmacy
Washington County Hospital - Plymouth, NC
March 2004 to March 2005
Management of the pharmacy including supervision of keeping a perpetual inventory of all narcotics with the help of the PYXIS machine. This position was in a rural 25 bed hospital. My duties included but were not limited to, the supervising of all pharmacy personnel according to the standards of the facility as well as the standards of the BOP and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAHO).
- Was in charge of the establishment of protocols for antibiotic therapy and set up protocols through pharmacy and therapeutics committee that allowed the pharmacy to review, adjust, and prescribe antibiotics if requested by provider including but not limited to: Zosyn, Vancomycin, Tobramycin, TPN, dopamine, and other intravenous and oral therapy.
- In charge of the establishment of protocols for antibiotic therapy and set up protocols through pharmacy and therapeutics that allow the pharmacy to review, adjust, and prescribe antibiotics if requested by provider.
- Manage operating budget, perform revenue analysis, make key purchasing decisions and track department expenditures. Turn in daily reports to CEO to insure charges are accurate. Actually place the weekly or bi-weekly order to Wholesaler, Amerisource Bergen for medications.
- Attended daily stand up meeting with CEO to insure safety and allow all department managers to communicate.
- Serve as chairperson of the Code Blue Committee. Used ACLS guidelines to make sure all our crash carts are as standardized as possible. Typed and distributed agendas and meeting minutes to all members of the committee.
- Worked within a very limited budget for drug procurement.
- Mixed all IV's including InFed as well as all the chemotherapy on a daily basis.
- As manager it was my job to make sure sure our facility is compliant with all federal and state laws as governed by OSHA, CMS, DNV and the NCBOPharmacy.
- Attended daily patient care conferences to discuss inpatient's current medication therapy.
- Attended monthly Medical Staff meetings where I served as the chair of our P&T committee.
- Attended monthly Environment of Care meetings where I served as pharmacy liaison.
- Attend monthly QA-PI meetings where I tracked several indicators to make sure we are in compliance with all state and national standards.
- Managed operating budget, performed revenue analysis, made key purchasing decisions and tracked department expenditures, and trained pharmacist to incorporate clinical practice ideals and principles in their daily practices.
- I stayed on as Pharmacist-Manager until on month prior to the birth of my son. Retail Staff Pharmacist
Capps-Daniels Pharmacy - Ahoskie, NC
2000 to 2001
Provided superior customer service to all patients and shoppers while dispensing prescription medications
- Dispensing responsibilities included patient counseling and vast knowledge of all third party billing and formularies.
Hospital Staff Pharmacist
Roanoke-Chowan Hospital - Ahoskie, NC
1994 to 1999
Responsible for the installation of PYXIS operating system. As a result was in charge of troubleshooting any issues and educating other pharmacists about the system after it was first implemented.
- Performed all other standard staff duties such as, but not limited to drug regimen review, IV therapy, and pharmacokinetic dosing, mixing chemotherapy x 6 years for oncologists who came on site from Greenville. Became very proficient in checking doses while also mixing chemotherapy as stated above because at that time our pharmacy technicians were not willing or trained to do so.
- I performed my job very as well as all my performance reviews reflected and I worked well with my coworkers both in the pharmacy as well as physicians, surgeons, PA's, FNP's, Nurses and Social case workers.
- I very much enjoyed my position and excelled at being a staff pharmacist at this very early point in my career.
- I did an internship at this site and within 6 months of graduation was invited to join the team at Roanoke Chowan Hospital by the active Hospital Pharmacy Director.
- The internship plus this being my first position out of school as a hospital pharmacist was very rewarding and has always been my ideal setting for practicing the profession of Pharmacy. Hospital Staff Pharmacist
Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital - Ahoskie, NC
1993 to 1999
1999
- Instrumental in the conversion from Roanoke Chowan Hospital to Vidant Roanoke Chowan Hospital in its infant stages. I was in charge of troubleshooting any issues and educating other pharmacists about the PYXIS system and was introduced to order sets. At that time very few order sets existed yet. At the time our facility was the first Vidant subsidiary after Vidant in Greenville. At that juncture EPIC was not the primary system used by Vidant. Meditech was still in use at that time. I quickly catch on and was quickly proficient in order entry and verification of the few order sets that did exist at that time.
- I continued to perform all other standard staff duties such as, but not limited to checking for drug-drug interaction, drug disease state interactions and doing a complete and through drug regimen review on all new orders and especially on all new inpatients. I often calculated and mixed IV therapy as well as provided pharmacokinetic dosing. I was already proficient at checking doses and mixing chemotherapy because at that time our pharmacy technicians were not trained to do so.
- I served on various committees as requested by my Hospital Pharmacy Director. Education
B.S. in Pharmacy
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, NC
August 1987 to December 1992
Skills
• Clinical Pharmacy Experience
• McKesson
• Order Entry
• Compounding Medications
• EMR Systems
• Epic
• Hospital Experience
• Medical Terminology
• Pioneer (2 years)
• Supervising Experience
• Patient observation
• Documentation review
Languages
• Englisg - Expert
Certifications and Licenses
North Carolina Licensed Pharmacist
January 2021 to December 2021
NC License # 11982
Registered Pharmacist
Present
NABP # 536501
Additional Information
Certified Immunizer in the State of North Carolina since 2018
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