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Carita Johnson
Registered Pharmacist
Chicago,Illinois
Summary
To secure a Pharmacy Manager/Staff Pharmacist position within an organization that can/will benefit from my professional background, knowledge, skills, experience, and expertise to help promote and move the organization forward in its mission and one that offers opportunities for professional/personal growth and give the best health care to the patient that we serve Licensed Pharmacist with over25 years’ experience as a Pharmacist and Pharmacy Management. Extensive leadership experience in mentoring pharmacy technicians and pharmacy students and community services. Managed the pharmacy workflow to ensure excellent patient service. Experience working with the340B program to manage drug inventory. Built start-up pharmacy, implemented, and improved Pharmacy Practice Supervision, Management (Training, Hiring, Team Building), Process & Procedures, Leadership and Fiscal Management Skill Sets. Trained other associates and helped them develop and build industry professional growth and patient service skill sets. Broad experience addressing medication needs of patients, educating and providing patients with drug information, drug interactions to give them the power to improve self-management and take care of their medical issues. Volunteered at various health care events to talk about different disease states such as hypertension, diabetes care and asthma. Involved in various health care events in different communities throughout Chicago, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Leadership/Management skills include overall day-to-day, team building, training
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Staff Pharmacist as Needed
Ascension St, Joseph Hospital Outpatient Pharmacy
09.2024 - Current
- Assist in the day-to-day operations of the pharmacy as regards to data processing, drug distribution, prescriptions, supervision of technicians
- Giving flu, pneumonia, covid and other vaccines to patients and document in ICARE
- Verification of prescription orders for meds to bed, pharmacotherapy
- Communication with patients about their medications
- Speaking to medical providers about various prescriptions for clarification when needed
- Filling prescriptions in accordance with state and federal laws
- Organizing workflow to achieve maximum efficiency
- Communicate effectively with Health care team members
- Entering and Verifying prescriptions for Specialty, HIV
- Working with EPIC, McKesson Enterprise
- Have a340B program that helps extensively with drug cost and inventory control
- Having a Home Delivery system for patients
- Duties Responsibilities
Pharmacist (Registry)
Weiss Memorial Hospital
05.2023 - Current
- Working as Registry Staff Pharmacist within a hospital serving Chicago’s North Side and surrounding communities
- Utilizing the Cerner system processing orders, communicating with nurses, residents and medical doctors on various orders to obtain clarification
- Checking IV piggy backs and other IV
- Checking and verifying medications filled by the technicians
- Performing vancomycin dosing according to protocol
- Checking aminoglycoside dosing, interpreting verbal and written orders
- Supervise and support pharmacy support personnel
- Assist the Director of Pharmacy with solving basic problems within the pharmacy
- Ensures that all pharmaceuticals are appropriately stored and distributed within the hospital
- Assist in developing and training pharmacy interns and technicians
- Work together with all pharmacy personnel to get the pharmacy task done in a timely manner
- Assist with making sure that Code medications is delivered in a timely manner
- Checking code crash carts
Walgreens
10.2022 - 05.2024
- Work as staff Pharmacist verifying orders, imputing orders, consulting with patients on their medications
- Performing Drug Utilization Review
- Training and developing technicians, Pharmacy students and interns
- Giving various immunizations to patients
- Engages with patients and helping with products and services
- Resolve patient issues in a timely manner and answers questions to ensure a positive patient experience
- Support the Pharmacy manager with ways to optimize pharmacy financials, inventory management and ways to enhance the patient experience
- Counsel patients and answer their questions regarding usage of medicine, side effects, interactions, contraindications, generics, less expensive medications
- Reach out to providers as needed to address certain medication problems regarding the filling of a patient's prescription
- Ensures the dispensing of medications within the federal and state guidelines with respect to control substances
- Follow up with insurance companies and medical providers and process prescriptions with accuracy with insurance claims
- Work with highly escalated customers to solve their medical concerns involved in the processing of their prescriptions
Clinical Pharmacist
Beloved Community Family Wellness Center-Chicago, IL
03.2021 - 10.2022
- Assess the status of the patient's health problems and monitoring of high-risk patient medication therapy and acting as a resource for the provision of medication information for patients, physicians, nurses, and other allied health professionals
- Advising patients about medicines, including how to take them, what reactions may occur and answering patients' questions
- Follow the patient's progress to determine the effects of the patient's medications on his or her health
- Work with patients to solve problems with their medications and improve adherence, and consulting with primary care team members about medication- related issues
- Work with Medical Doctors to provide information for Prior Authorizations
- Review high-risk patient’s medication profiles, including review of patients on high dose opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines
- Participates in team huddles, panel management meetings, and other meetings that involve proactively addressing patient needs and/or problem- solving on how to best meet the needs of high-risk patients
- Provides COVID vaccines and flu shots to patients and document results in EMR, at both Beloved Community Family Wellness Centers in Englewood and Robbins, Illinois
- Displayed empathy and compassion for the patients and their caregivers
- Adapt to change and able to adjust plans to thrive in an excellent community healthcare setting
- Charted patients encounter utilizing Enterprise EHR in Nextgen System
- Participated in several Covid19 vaccination events throughout Chicago and surrounding suburbs
- Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals and counseling patients on drug therapies
- Provides education and communicates effectively with patients and healthcare providers contributing to the quality and effective operation of the organization
- Provides alternative visit care, such as teaming with PCP in group visits and addressing medication questions that are posed by patients via email or telehealth inquiries
- Participates in Quality Improvement committee meetings
Pharmacy Manager
Mercy Hospital and Medical Center / Mercy Community Pharmacy at Oakwood Shores-Chicago, IL
06.2013 - 02.2021
- Built start-up Pharmacy Practice, and oversaw the pharmacy operation
- Function in the role of a Registered Pharmacist to provide clinical and distributive pharmaceutical services
- Develop/Recommended departmental policies, procedures, and programs to ensure departmental effectiveness
- Worked with providers to address Prior authorizations for patients on Medicare Part D
- Assured compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements for pharmacy operation including the Food and Drug Administration, Drug Enforcement Administration and Board of Pharmacy
- Assured compliance and standards of practice from accreditation organization
- Oversee the preparation, dispensing, storage, recording of legend drugs, OTC medications used in the pharmacy including control substances
- Worked with the340b software to help control inventory
- Collaborated/Work with hospital departments/medical staff and health centers to establish a multidisciplinary approach
- Documented health care events utilizing Medication Therapy Management (MTM) Services
- Oversaw direction, leadership, management and established positive relationships with Department Heads, staff, and management team
- Supervised and managed the day-to-day pharmacy services
- Established and maintained appropriate staffing levels and positions to achieve departmental and hospital objectives, select, train, and develop, evaluate and, when necessary, discipline or discharge departmental personnel
- Provide service to Diabetes Care Patients to assist in providing medication knowledge to promote health care awareness to patients and their caregivers regarding Diabetes care
- BS Pharmacy
Education
Xavier University of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA05.1984
Skills
- Please contact me at the above address
- Excellent customer service skills Note: Should any other information be needed
- Immunization Pharmacist
- Orientation fiscal (budgeting)
- Technology proficient in application and use of essential and various supportive software programs Continuous self-assessment
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Diabetes Care Pharmacist
- Self-direction
- And workflow assessments/assignments that resulted in over30% increase in Key Performance Metrics (KPM) which resulted in a significant decrease in labor cost and more efficient inventory management Skilled in Basic Life Support (CPR and AED)
- And motivation to positively affect interventions in and improvement in patient outcomes
- McKesson
- Medical Terminology
- Epic
- Fiscal Management
- Cerner
- Supervising Experience
- EMR Systems
- Hospital Experience
- Insurance Verification
Certification
Licensed Pharmacist
Affiliations
- American Pharmacist Association
- Chicago Pharmacist Association
- Kappa Epsilon
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeWork Location
On-SiteRemoteHybridImportant To Me
Work-life balanceCompany CultureFlexible work hoursCareer advancementHealthcare benefitsPaid time off401k matchStock Options / Equity / Profit SharingPaid sick leavePersonal development programsWork from home optionTeam Building / Company RetreatsWork Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Interests
Cooking
Theater
Golf
Tennis
Timeline
Staff Pharmacist as Needed
Ascension St, Joseph Hospital Outpatient Pharmacy
09.2024 - Current
Pharmacist (Registry)
Weiss Memorial Hospital
05.2023 - Current
Walgreens
10.2022 - 05.2024
Clinical Pharmacist
Beloved Community Family Wellness Center-Chicago, IL
03.2021 - 10.2022
Pharmacy Manager
Mercy Hospital and Medical Center / Mercy Community Pharmacy at Oakwood Shores-Chicago, IL
06.2013 - 02.2021
Xavier University of Louisiana
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