Pharmacist – Per Diem – Critical Care/Med/Surg

**Make a Difference in Pharmacy**When the work you do every single day has a crucial impact on the lives of others, every effort, every detail, and every second matters.

This shared culture of passion and dedication pulses through Cedars-Sinai, and it’s just one of the many reasons we’ve achieved our fifth-consecutive Magnet designation for nursing excellence.

From working with a team of premier healthcare professionals to using state-of-the-art facilities, you’ll have everything you need to do something incredible—for yourself, and for others.

Join us, and discover why U.S.

News & World Report has named us one of America’s Best Hospitals!Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is an 886-bed non-profit, acute, quaternary, teaching Level I Trauma Center hospital located in the heart of Los Angeles, California.

The Department of Pharmacy has over approximately 430 staff members who provide comprehensive inpatient pharmacy services as well as outpatient services via 2 cancer centers and 3 outpatient pharmacies.

We are committed to the education and training of pharmacists, students/interns, residents, technicians, and other health care professionals.

We are affiliated with several Schools of Pharmacy and offers PGY1 and PGY2 residency programs.

The residency and student experiential programs at CSMC continue to grow with every successive year, where nearly 100 residents have graduated from the PGY1 pharmacy residency program since 1985 and more than 200 student rotations are offered at CSMC annually.

Recently, CSMC was recognized and bestowed “Site of the Year” awards by two major affiliated CA Schools of Pharmacy for providing an exceptional experiential learning environment for their students.**Do you work well in a large team environment where critical thinking is essential?**As a per diem Critical Care/Med Surg Clinical Pharmacist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, you will assist in providing both clinical and some distributive services to patients.

Pharmacist duties include: rounds with medical staff, provision of drug dosing services using the hospital Per Pharmacy Protocol policy, review of patient profiles, assess all new medication orders for appropriateness, verify computerized prescriber order entries, participate on the code blue team, provide drug information to physicians and nurses, teach residents, clerkship students, and other pharmacists, provide nursing education and supervise satellite technicians.The employee performs job duties with sensitivity to the patients’ diverse cultural backgrounds.

The employee maintains competency skills to identify medication safety concerns in the age-related population and institutes additional measures to provide a safe environment with consideration to the developmental changes in the patient population.Employee takes initiative to continually learn and maintain clinical and regulatory knowledge.**Educational Requirements:**+ Possess Pharm.D.

degree**License/Certification/Registration Requirements:**+ Current California State Board of Pharmacy issued Pharmacist License+ BLS card**What else are we looking for?**+ Critical Care, or equivalent experience are desired for the position**Physical Demands:**+ Frequent standing; walking, bending; reaching, occasional sitting, pushing & pulling, lifting of materials up to 40 pounds for distances to 10 feet.+ Responsiveness to auditory alarms and communication devices including: telephones, beepers, fire alarms, and mechanical failure alarms.+ Sufficient mobility to access equipment, patients and other customers.+ Able to read information on medication labelsCedars-Sinai is an EEO employer.

Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law.

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