Job responsibilities

Monitor the use of medications, medical practices and individual patients:

• Prepares medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders and detecting therapeutic incompatibilities

• Dispenses medications by compounding, packaging, and labelling pharmaceuticals

• Controls medications by monitoring drug therapies and advising interventions

• Maintain Extemporaneous preparations and Radiopharmacy services in accordance with rules, regulations, accepted standards, professional practices, and hospital policies.

• Supervises all activities related to Extemporaneous preparations & Radio-pharmacy services

• Completes pharmacy operational requirements by organizing and directing technicians' workflow; verifying their preparation and labelling of pharmaceuticals; verifying order entries, charges, and inspections

• Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals, and counselling patients on drug therapies.

• Choose, prepare, store, compound, and dispense medicines and medical devices

• Ensures that dispensed drugs are delivered on time

• Instruct patients on the proper use of the drugs

• Prepares written reports and medication reviews as required.

• Enhance the safety and quality of all medicine related processes affecting patients of the hospital

• Ensure the 7 “rights” are respected: right patient, right dose, right route, right time, right drug with the right information and documentation

• Maintains individual patient medication profiles and refers to them for drug incompatibilities, drug allergies and drug interactions.

• Operates an automated pharmaceutical database to retrieve the most updated information and control the dispensing of drugs.

• Ensures that medications are properly labelled for identification, direction for use, dosage, and dated so detailed accountability is maintained

• Ensures that drugs and pharmaceuticals are properly stored, secured, rotated for shelf-life, re-ordered to maintain adequate supplies and properly disposed of

• Uses computer applications or other automated systems such as spreadsheets, word processing, calendars, e-mail and database software in performing work as segments

• Assume all operation responsibilities including stock-out prevention, designation of sample medications and financial performance

Participate in pharmaceutical research, Education and training:

• Participate in-service training of Pharmacy Interns, students, house staff and other health professionals, as assigned

• Keeps abreast of advances in the field of pharmacology through conferences, seminars, continuing education and scientific journals

• Participate in clinical programs, training pharmacy staff, students, interns, externs, residents, and health care professionals

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy

  3 Years of relevant experience

Required competencies and key technical skills

• Time management skills

• Digital literacy skills

• Good knowledge of Rwanda Health System

• Knowledge of clinical services Policy and procedure

• Analytical, data interpretation and problem solving skills