Pharmacist Job Opportunity at Al Zahra Hospital Dubai
Latest job opportunity at Al Zahra Hospital in Dubai for Pharmacists from all corners of the world who want to work in Dubai at Al Zahra Hospital.You will be providing pharmacy services to patients and medical practitioners. Fills prescriptions, dispenses medicines, counsels’ patients and medical practitioners regarding the nature and use of drugs, and trains and/or supervises assistant pharmacist. Prepares and maintains all necessary records on prescriptions, patient charges, and inventory
Responsibilities
- Makes decisions regarding generic substitution of prescribed pharmaceuticals.
- Provide information about over-the-counter drugs and make recommendations after talking with the patient.
- Counsel patients and/or medical practitioners on drug indications/contraindications, dosage, drug interactions, and side effects; provides other drug and pharmaceutical information as appropriate.
- Provides guidance and training to assistant pharmacist during course of work and monitors performance.
- Establishes and maintains methods and manner of storage and recordkeeping systems to provide for safekeeping of pharmaceuticals.
- Take patient histories as required; makes initial clinical assessments and refers patients to appropriate clinicians.
- Follow established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives, continuous quality improvement objectives, and safety, environmental, and/or infection control standards.
- In addition is also responsible for completion of third-party insurance forms and other paperwork.
- Responsible for keeping confidential computerized records of patients’ drug therapies to prevent harmful drug interactions.
- Follows insurance companies’ policies and procedures.
- Follows DHA regulations
- Monitor the nearing expiry/expired items in order to dispose them according to policy.
- Assure the accuracy of every prescription processed.
- Report any violation of departments’ policies and procedure to chief Pharmacist.
- Follow established departmental policies, procedures and objectives continuous quality improvement objectives and ensure pharmacy staff compliance
- Perform any job-related duties as assigned by chief pharmacist.Stays current on developments within your field of specialization by reading industry publications and seeking information on industry best practices
- Consistent with the organization’s values of “teamwork,” “partnership,” and “quality,” works in collaboration with other departments to maximize the patient experience
- Helps supervisor to identify sources of waste and inefficiency to help contain the costs of healthcare delivery
- Honesty
- Integrity
- Transparency
- Ethical behavior
- Quality
- Teamwork
- Compassion
- Respect and dignity
- Trust
- Customer focus
- Partnership
- Service
- Confidentiality
- Communication
- Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy. (required)
- Working Conditions
- Acute Care Hospital in Department/Unit within the hospital premises.
- Working hours :48 hours/ per week