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RETAIL PHARMACIST
Professional Summary

Pharmacist with Doctor of Pharmacy degree licensed to practice in Florida. Excels at teamwork, conflict resolution and making sound decisions under pressure. Confident and flexible in quickly mastering new technologies and information systems. Empathetic and intuitive during client interactions and adept at building trust and strong customer relations.

Licenses
  • In good standing with the Florida Board of Pharmacy, Pharmacist License Number PS51471.
  • Certified in Immunization Administration
Skill Highlights
  • Excellent telephone etiquette
  • Good communication skills
  • HIPAA trained
  • Pyxis system
  • Strong decision-making ability
  • Computer skills: Word, excel, power point
  • Work under pressure
  • Excellent in handling customers, and taking orders
  • Organized, very attentive
  • Certified Immunizing Pharmacist in Florida
  • Hospital and retail pharmacy professional
  • Skilled in clinical interventions
  • CPR certification
  • Exceptional patient care and interaction
  • Flexible to work with, and reliable
Education and Training
PharmD: Pharmacy2013Nova Southeastern UniversityPalm Beach Gardens, FL
Pre- Pharmacy: Pharmacy2009Palm Beach State CollegeLake Worth, FL
Bachelor's: Social Work2003Alvas College of Social WorkINDIA
Professional Experience
Retail Pharmacist03/2014 to CurrentCostcoRoyal Palm Beach, FL
  • Manage high volume of patient accounts
  • Consult patients and physicians to fill prescriptions, review side effects, and drug interactions
  • Patient counseling on medications, and potential side effects
  • Administered influenza, pneumonia, and Zostavax vaccinations.
  • Provide customers and patients with information regarding OTC and prescription medications
  • Supervise all aspects of operation in the absence of pharmacy manager
  • Maintain high level of customer satisfaction, and resolve any customer issues
  • Maintain inventory
  • Address all drug information questions from health care professionals and customers accurately
  • Dispense and handle record-keeping of controlled substances.
  • Efficiently answer multi-line phone and process high volume of order requests from patients, doctors and pharmacists.
  • Label all products appropriately, including cautionary and auxiliary labels.
  • Follow state and federal record keeping guidelines for legend drugs and controlled substances.
Staff Pharmacist03/2014 to CurrentSt Luice Medical CenterPort Saint Lucie, FL
  • Maintain working knowledge of changes in pharmacy practice including laws and drugs
  • Monitor and dispense medications in the right form and dose for inpatient use
  • Monitor labs like trough and peak levels, INR values daily and make appropriate recommendations
  • Daily review of IV to PO antibiotics
  • Continuous monitoring of medications for renal dose adjustments, duplicate orders, therapeutic duplications
  • Maintained control and security of all drugs
  • Provide drug information consultations that include pain consults, coumadin consults
  • Complete consultations requested by physicians that include TPN's, vancomycin, gentamycin , and tobramycin
  • Review patients on antibiotic stewardship and make appropriate recommendations
  • Attend ICU, and IDT rounds and make appropriate recommendations if required
  • Collaborate with other staff, including infectious disease specialists, to develop dosing based on pharmacokinetics and make adjustments based on levels.
  • Routinely communicate with providers to influence the use of formulary medications in compliance with clinical protocols
  • Assess need for DVT prophylaxis and anticoagulation treatment.
  • Perform order entry, answer phone calls, verify intravenous batch cart-fill, and stat orders.
  • Accurately record compounded products and prepare appropriate labels.
Pharmacy Technician02/2012 to 01/2014Palms West HospitalLoxahatchee, FL
  • Dispensed and delivered patient medications throughout the hospital.
  • Workeded closely with pharmacists and used medication input software to safely and accurately dispense medication.
  • Efficiently answered multi-line phone and processed high volume of order requests from nurses, doctors and pharmacists.
  • Answered and screened phone calls for the staff pharmacist in a friendly, efficient manner.
  • Accurately pulled medications from the shelves for pyxis replenishment and delivered them to the various patient care areas.
  • Maintained proper compliance logs, including for refrigerator temperatures.
  • Filled departmental requisitions and crash cart medication trays.
  • Maintained proper storage and security conditions for all drugs.
  • Strictly maintained patient confidentiality.
  • Labeled all products appropriately, including cautionary and auxiliary labels.
  • Communicated with all patients and staff in a pleasant and professional manner.
  • Maintained proper inventory levels, rotated stock and immediately complied with prescription drug recalls.
Pharmacy Technician03/2005 to 10/2009Welington Regional Medical CenterWellington, FL
  • Worked under the direct supervision of the pharmacists, and took orders promptly.
  • Prepared IV admixtures for adults, and NICU patients.
  • Communicated with all patients and staff in a pleasant and professional manner.
  • Accurately filled the pyxis machines, and checked for outdated medications in a timely manner.
  • Managed telephone calls from doctors, and nurses.
  • Worked under pressure by preparing and delivering STAT medications, and IV's when needed.
  • Refilled stock out medications, narcotics, and OR medication trays.
  • Responded to code blues, and filled crash cart medication trays on time.
  • Dispensed, and delivered patient medications to throughout the hospital.
  • Efficiently answered multi-line phone and processed high volume of order requests from nurses, doctors andpharmacists.
  • Accurately pulled medications from the shelves for pyxis replenishment and delivered them to the various patient care areas.
  • Accurately recorded compounded products and prepared appropriate labels.
  • Maintained proper compliance logs, including for refrigerator temperatures and IV hood maintenance.
  • Maintained drug inventory levels by ordering necessary medications and supplies and verifying deliveries against purchase orders.
  • Calculated, weighed, measured and mixed ingredients with expert precision.
  • Maintained proper inventory levels, rotated stock and immediately complied with prescription drug recalls.
  • Mixed various pharmaceutical preparations according to written prescriptions.
Professional Practice Experience

Delray Medical Center, Delray, FL 3/4/13- 3/29/13

Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience: AnticoagulatiTherapy

Preceptor: William Fagan

  • Trauma rounds with attending medical staff.
  • Journal club presentation on Rivaroxaban versus Warfain in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation.
  • Prepared power point presentation on drug diversion for the nurses.
  • Daily anticoagulation monitoring.
  • Reviewed IV to PO reports, risk fall assessment, VTE prophylaxis on new admits on a daily basis.
  • Attended tumor board conference with oncology specialist team.

St. Luice Medical Center, Port St Luice, FL 2/4/13- 3/1/13

Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience: Nutritional Support

Preceptor: Nehaul Sherry

  • Worked with preceptor on writing new TPN's on patients who have difficulty eating by mouth.
  • Reviewed and monitored TPN's on a daily basis and made necessary recommendations.
  • Disease state presentation on Hepatic Encephalopathy for the pharmacy staff.
  • Attended P&T meeting.
  • Journal club presentation on vitamin D supplementation on CVD risk.

Delray Medical Center, Delray, FL 1/7/13- 2/1/13

Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience: Internal Medicine

Preceptor: William Fagan/ Humberto Munoz

  • Trauma rounds with the attending medical staff.
  • Provided patient counseling with the pharmacist.
  • Daily anticoagulation monitoring.
  • Reviewed IV to PO reports, risk fall assessment, and VTE prophylaxis on newly admitted patients.
  • Journal club presentation on agitation and sedation from the clinical guidelines for the pharmacy staff.
  • Disease state presentation on Paget's disease.

Publix #413, Lake Worth, FL 10/22/12-11/16/12

Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience: Advanced Community

Preceptor: Jenelle Olson Hurley

  • Entered new patient profiles and prescriptions into medication input software system.
  • Provided friendly customer service at prescription drop-off and pick up counters.
  • Proficiently processed prescription fills, and refills
  • Verified accuracy and completeness of information on prescription and refill requests.
  • Took voice mail prescriptions from doctors.
  • Communicated directly with doctor's offices via telephone, and fax.
  • Conducted diabetes and nutrition workshop with preceptor for diabetic patients, and provided glucometer education
  • Cholesterol and AIc training and testing for customers.
  • New drug monograph presentations on Tudorza Pressair, and Ulesfia.

Walgreens #5078, Lake Worth FL 9/24/12-10/19/12

Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience: Ambulatory Care

Preceptor: Dion Herrera

  • MTM review and patient case presentations.
  • Disease state presentations on Osteoporosis, MAC & IBS.
  • Business case presentation related to pharmacy.
  • Accurately filled patient prescriptions, and refills.
  • Assisted the pharmacy staff in the drive-thru and cash register.
  • Took voice mail prescriptions from doctors, and transferred prescriptions.
  • Provided patient counseling on prescription and OTC products.
  • Communicated directly with doctor's offices via telephone, and fax.
  • Provided friendly customer service at prescription drop-off and pick up counters.

Raulerson Hospital, Okeechobee, FL 8/27/12-9/21/12

Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience: Geriatrics

Preceptor: Kurt Richter

  • Journal club presentations.
  • Disease state presentation on Infective Endocarditis for the pharmacy staff.
  • Provided patient counseling on a daily basis for the newly admitted patients.
  • Assessed pain scale management for patients on pain medications.
  • Reviewed IV to po, and creatinine clearance reports on a daily basis. Performed daily check on cart fill medications.

NSU College of Pharmacy, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 7/23/12-8/17/12

Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience: Academic

Preceptor: Nile Khanfar

  • Gathered articles on tramadol from 2012 to help with an ongoing research on tramadol.
  • Data entry and interpretation on tramadol based on the articles gathered.
  • Collected information on the rehabilitation centers of Palm Beach county as part of a new research.
  • Presentation on conducting a systematic review or meta-analysis.

Columbia Hospital, West Palm Beach, FL 6/25/12-7/20/12

Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience: Infectious Disease

Preceptor: Manny Seetaram

  • Reviewed clinical reports, IV to po, and creatinine clearance reports on a daily basis.
  • Took and reviewed the Internal medicine rotation competency test.
  • Journal club presentation.
  • Provided patient counseling for patients on new medications at the hospital.
  • Assisted the pharmacist with vancomycin dosing, TPN, sepsis worksheet, and anticoagulation monitoring.
  • Attended multidisciplinary meetings with the pharmacist.

Columbia Hospital, West Palm Beach, FL 5/28/12- 6/22/12

Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience: General Clinical

Preceptor: Manny Seetaram

  • Journal club presentation.
  • Disease state presentation on Bipolar Disorder for the medical students and residents.
  • Provided patient counseling.
  • Updated the anticoagulation therapy hospital clinical guide (adapted from Chest 2012).
  • Attended various lectures and discussions provided by the preceptor on topics like stroke, statistics, HIV, and psychiatry.
  • Daily anticoagulation monitoring.

St. Mary's Medical Center, West Palm Beach, FL 6/6/11- 6/24/11

Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience Pharmacy Service

Preceptor: Sheldon Lefkowitz

  • Assisted the pharmacy staff in cart fills, and delivery of medications throughout the hospital
  • Checked for outdated medications in the pharmacy.
  • Relabeled the entire pharmacy, which included the IV, chemo, and the pediatric section.
  • Journal clubs, and patient case presentations for the pharmacy staff.
  • Trauma rounds with the pharmacist.



Walgreens Pharmacy #5078, Lake Worth, FL 8/25/10- 4/25/11

Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience Community

Preceptor: Dion Herrera

  • Responsible for accurately filling patient prescriptions.
  • Provided friendly customer service at prescription drop-off and pick up counters.
  • Counseled patients on their medications.
  • Assisted in doctor calls and prescription transfers.
  • MTMs, and patient case presentations.
  • Disease state presentation on Gout for the pharmacy staff.
  • Blood glucose and blood pressure screening.

Washington Elementary School, Riviera Beach, FL 10/6/09- 4/13/10

Service Learning Site

Preceptor: Dorothy Green

  • Teacher's aid
  • Tutored third grade students' writing and reading skills
Volunteer Work

Wellington Regional Medical Center Pharmacy, FL 2004-2005

  • Refilled medications, charged/credited patient medications, and checked for outdated medications

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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • Costco
  • St Luice Medical Center
  • Palms West Hospital
  • Welington Regional Medical Center

School Attended

  • Nova Southeastern University
  • Palm Beach State College
  • Alvas College of Social Work

Job Titles Held:

  • Retail Pharmacist
  • Staff Pharmacist
  • Pharmacy Technician

Degrees

  • PharmD : Pharmacy 2013
    Pre- Pharmacy : Pharmacy 2009
    Bachelor's : Social Work 2003

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