Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Rotating Shift

Description:

POSITION PURPOSE:

Involved in the provision of pharmaceutical care to inpatients, outpatients, and home health patients ranging in age from premature newborns to geriatrics. Involved in the provision of educational and employee services to patients, guests, clients, hospital, and medical staff of MercyOne Medical Center (MMC).

Details:

Your best life. Our one purpose.

At MercyOne, we own our actions to achieve our larger goals. We invest in great people and ask that you make each experience your responsibility.

What we offer:

We care about your well-being, both physical and mental, which is why our benefit package includes:

• Wellness programs

• Education reimbursement

• Personalized health insurance plans including dental and vision

• Paid time off

• Long- and short-term leave

• Retirement planning

• Life insurance coverage

What you will do:

• Demonstrates specific customer focused behaviors.

• Supports and abides by all MMC departmental and safety policies and procedures.

• Acts in a professional manner reflecting the mission, philosophy, and values of MMC.

• Performs dispensing functions; interprets physician orders, reviews therapy for age and appropriateness, dispenses medications, checks patient trays, compounds miscellaneous drug products, etc.

• Directs IV additive system; prepares profiles and labels, compounds IV admixtures utilizing aseptic technique, dispenses, IV’s, etc.

• Participates in clinical pharmacy activities under the guidance of the clinical coordinator (pharmacokinetics, drug information, D.U.E. facilitating educational programs, etc.).

• Maintains current knowledge of departmental policies and procedures as well as state and federal regulations and maintains any documentation required by the same.

• Consults and advises nursing, allied health, home health care, medical staff, and patients on drug therapy.

• Supervises work of pharmacy personnel as needed.

• Performs other duties as assigned or required.

• Demonstrates activity to impact change within your department and with other departments.

• Promotes and establishes effective relationships within the department, with other departments, physicians, and with hospital guest and clients.

• Takes an active role in enhancing abilities to carry out job functions through personal and professional/job-related growth and development.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy.

• Licensed to practice pharmacy in the State of Iowa.

• Previous hospital experience in unit-dose, IV additive and clinical pharmacy programs is desirable.

• Must be able to effectively supervise technical staff.

• Must be accurate and thorough in performing job functions.

• Must perform all functions in a timely fashion to optimize patient care.

• Must demonstrate an ability to exercise professional judgment in decisions relating to medication therapy.

• Must possess the ability to effectively and courteously communicate with other members of the pharmacy, medical and hospital staffs and guests and clients.

• Must be competent to provide care within assigned unit to the population described in the unit's description of service.

MercyOne Eastern Iowa provides exceptional, personalized care to Dubuque, Dyersville, Elkader, Clinton and surrounding areas providing more than 300 licensed beds. MercyOne Eastern Iowa operates four medical centers in Dubuque, Elkader, Dyersville and Clinton. Our facility in Clinton has branches in DeWitt (https://www.mercyone.org/location/mercyone-dewitt-family-medicine) , and Fulton (https://www.mercyone.org/location/mercyone-fulton-family-medicine) specializing in family medicine and Savanna Home Health & Hospice Care based in Illinois.

• MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center (https://www.mercyone.org/dubuque/find-a-location/)

• MercyOne Dyersville Medical Center

• MercyOne Elkader Medical Center (https://www.mercyone.org/location/mercyone-elkader-medical-center)

• MercyOne Clinton Medical Center

With a history dating back more than 130 years, MercyOne Eastern Iowa has grown through expansions, acquisitions and consolidations to help provide exceptional, personalized care to our communities. Our four medical centers employ over 2,000 colleagues and medical staff improving access and creating an even higher level of care coordination to benefit patients and communities throughout the region.

Our Mission:

We, Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel, as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

Our Core Values:

• Reverence

• Commitment to Those Who are Poor

• Safety

• Justice

• Stewardship

• Integrity

Our Vision:

• We will be the most trusted health partner for life.

Our Actions:

As a Trinity Health colleague, I will:

• Listen to understand.

• Learn continuously.

• Keep it simple.

• Create solutions.

• Deliver outstanding service.

• Own and speak up for safety

• Expect, embrace and initiate change.

• Demonstrate exceptional teamwork.

• Trust and assume good intentions.

• Hold myself and others accountable for results.

• Communicate directly with respect and honesty.

• Serve every person with empathy, dignity and compassion.

• Champion diversity, equity and inclusion.

Our Promise:

• We Listen.

• We Partner.

• We Make it Easy.

MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center and all its affiliates are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, physical disability or any other classification protected under local, state or federal law.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic healthcare systems in the nation. Built on the foundation of our Mission and Core Values, we integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do. Our colleagues have different lived experiences, customs, abilities, and talents. Together, we become our best selves. A diverse and inclusive workforce provides the most accessible and equitable care for those we serve. Trinity Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by law.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

EOE including disability/veteran