Pharmacist with Long-Term Care Expertise
Resume:
Laura Beth Lakvold
Post Falls, ID 83854
November 2026
EDUCATION
**** ******, ********** ** ******** School of Pharmacy 1996 BS Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University PHARMACY EXPERIENCE
Heart Centrix 2026
My responsibility as an agency pharmacist included working for Pharmerica long-term care pharmacy. The pharmacy worked with assisted living facilities, behavioral health facilities, and long-term care facilities. My responsibilities included working as a verification pharmacist (PV2). Other responsibilities included checking prescriptions typed by a pharmacy technician, checking bubble packs including control medication bubble packs and evaluating patients’ allergies and drug interactions based on the patients’ medication profile. Rite Aid 2023 – 2025
My responsibilities as a pharmacist included accurately filling and dispensing medications, counseling customers on medications or drug questions and providing immunizations. Other responsibilities include providing customer service, working with nurses and physicians to provide appropriate care to customers and supervise pharmacy technicians.
Omnicare Pharmacy 2015 – 2021
Omnicare Pharmacy provides medications for long-term care facility as well as assisted living facility along the west coast of Washington. My responsibility includes checking prescriptions typed by a pharmacy technician, checking bubble packs including control medication bubble packs and compounding medications filled by a technician, supervising pharmacy technicians, checking expiration dates on medications, and receiving calls from nurses and physicians concerning clinical pharmacy questions. Other responsibilities include evaluating patients’ allergies and drug interactions based on the patients’ medication profile, receiving phone calls from physicians in transposing and entering a 72-hour emergency supply of CII medications, receiving control medications CII-CV entering them into the perpetual inventory, and keeping up to date with pharmacy competencies. Seattle Cancer Treatment and Wellness Center 2012 – 2014 My responsibilities include preparing the pharmacy for their initial state inspection, verifying doses of medication according to the patients’ lab results. Other responsibilities include evaluating patients’ allergies and drug interaction based on patients’ chemotherapy regimen, supervising a pharmacy technician in the appropriate preparation of chemotherapy medications and always working on maintaining a low cost inventory according to patient acuity in the clinic.
Seattle Pharmacist Relief 2012 – 2013; CareerStaff Rx 2006 – 2014, 2021 - 2023 My responsibilities include working for different pharmacies to cover as a relief pharmacist. Other responsibilities include counseling patients on their medications, reviewing physician prescriptions, verifying medications being filled, and drug utilization reviews of patients’ profiles for allergies and drug interactions. My experience includes working with Seattle Cancer Treatment and Wellness Center, HealthPoint Centers, CostCo, QFC, and Bartell Drugs. With working at Seattle Cancer Treatment and Wellness Center, my experience includes working with chemotherapy infusions.
Harrison HealthPartners Poulsbo Hematology/Oncology Clinic 2010 – 2012 My responsibilities as an infusion pharmacist include preparing the pharmacy for state inspection, verifying doses of medication according to appropriate lab values, evaluating patients’ allergies and possible drug interactions based on the patients’ treatments and preparing chemotherapy intravenous regimens for patients. Other responsibilities include maintaining the inventory cost of medication within a reasonable level according to the acuity of patients in the clinic, assisting patients with prior authorizations on medications, and providing patients with access to receiving assistance for high cost medications. Responsibilities also include working with physicians and nurses to provide appropriate and safe care to our hematology/oncology patients. Walgreens, Tacoma, Washington 2006 – 2010
My responsibilities as a pharmacist included accurately filling and dispensing medications, counseling customers on medications or drug questions and providing immunizations. Other responsibilities include providing customer service, working with nurses and physicians to provide appropriate care to customers and supervise pharmacy technicians.
Good Samaritan Hospital, Puyallup, Washington 2005 – 2006 My responsibilities as a pharmacist included entering physician orders, working on the medical floor as a pharmacist, and also working with protocols such as aminoglycoside, vancomycin, coumadin, and TPN protocols. Other responsibilities included working with nurses, physicians, and patients in providing any clinical drug information. Kindred Hospital, Denver, Colorado, 2003 – 2005
My responsibilities include assisting the pharmacists in filling the medications for patients within the hospital, preparation of IVs for patients, filling suremed machines on the hospital floors, assisting the pharmacist during rounds, and checking INRs for coumadin dosing and hematocrit and hemoglobin for aranesp requirements. Other responsibilities include preparing for state and JCAHO inspections. Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, 2001 – 2004 My responsibilities consist of assisting the pharmacist in fill prescriptions for patients within the hospital, preparing intravenous admixtures for adults and children, preparing TPNs for patients in the hospital, re-stocking medications in the acudose on hospital floors, compounding and working the graveyard shift to assist the pharmacist. Other responsibilities include working in the OR satellite pharmacy assisting with current cases in surgery and preparing medication cassettes for cases the next day as well as assisting the pharmacist when needed. Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas, 2000 – 2001 My responsibilities include filling prescriptions for patients within the hospital, preparing intravenous admixtures for adults as well as children, re-stocking medications in the pyxis on the hospital floors, and compounding oral liquids. Other responsibilities include checking the expiration dates on all medications. Eckerd Drugs, Sugar Land, Texas, 1999 – 2000
I began my pharmacy work experience with Eckerd Drugs as a pharmacy clerk and later passed all the requirements for the Eckerd's Pharmacy Technician program. My duties at Eckerd's involved receiving and logging all new prescriptions, taking prescription refill authorizations from doctors and filling some prescriptions. PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
Registered Pharmacist ID SBP, # 6871786
Registered Pharmacist WA SBP, # PH00061391
APHA Certified Immunizing Pharmacist
Contact this candidate