Description
Provide patient-centered medication therapy management and dispense prescribed medications under the supervision of clinical preceptors. Advise patients and the care team on medication selection, dosing, interactions, and adverse effects while developing advanced clinical, teaching, and research skills across rotations.
- • Review and verify medication orders for accuracy, appropriateness, and patient-specific factors under preceptor oversight.
- • Provide patient and clinician education on drug interactions, adverse effects, dosing, and storage.
- • Monitor medication therapy and perform medication-use evaluations to detect nonadherence, overuse, or interactions.
- • Support pharmacy operations, including inventory checks, proper storage, and controlled-substance compliance.
- • Document clinical activities, interventions, medication histories, and required regulatory records.
- • Deliver disease-state management services for conditions such as diabetes, asthma, smoking cessation, or hypertension.
- • Counsel patients on medication use, devices, and selection of appropriate over-the-counter products.
- • Round with interdisciplinary teams to recommend, initiate, and monitor pharmacotherapy plans.
- • Compound and dispense medications, verifying calculations and techniques under supervision.
- • Coordinate transitions of care, including discharge counseling and referrals to appropriate services.
- • Prepare sterile IV admixtures and hazardous drugs in compliance with USP standards and site policy.
- • Contribute to the development and implementation of procedures for mixing, packaging, labeling, and disposal.
- • Participate in pharmacy staffing and operational improvement or quality projects.
- • Complete rotations in inpatient, ambulatory, and specialty areas; serve as a clinical resource to the team.
- • Ensure product integrity by checking identity, strength, purity, and beyond-use dating.
- • Precept or mentor students and interns with preceptor guidance; lead topic discussions and journal clubs.
- • Develop and deliver educational materials and presentations for clinicians, patients, and pharmacy staff.
- • Provide health promotion services, immunizations, and device training as allowed by licensure and policy.
- • Assist with medication access, including prior authorizations, formulary navigation, and benefits inquiries.
- • Use and help optimize pharmacy information systems; report and troubleshoot order entry, barcode administration, or clinical decision support issues.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
