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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Affiliations
Certification
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DEIDRE SANCHEZ

Cedar Park,Choose An Email

Summary

To highlight my skills, education, qualifications and clinical experience whilst in pursuit of a challenging, exciting, and potentially satisfying employment opportunity.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Pharmacist

HCA
04.2006 - Current

These daily duties are above and beyond my normal duties as a pharmacist. (order entry, vigilanz , telephonic support to nurses and doctors etc.

1. I have played a PIVATOL role in leading our department daily on the DAY shift. To allow operations to function smoothly one has to demonstrate a number of essential skills -Prioritizing, delegating, multitasking, problem solving and most importantly communicating to name a few.

2. My initiative of formalizing and leading the huddles has greatly improved communication between staff and management.

3. Leading the daily huddles require constant and consistent awareness of ALL pharmacy issues.

4. Demonstrated the ability to remain focused on key issues

5. Using my experience and knowledge base to lead and support all techs and pharmacists (decentralized)

6. Providing support and guidance to pharmacists at SDSH (recognized by surgical staff)

7. Helping to keep track of shortages and being proactive to discuss plans or the way forward.

8. Assisting management with staff call outs, trying to help find replacements and proactively moving staff around to cover shifts and make sure the work gets done. Recruiting help where it is appropriate.

9. Offering input and suggestions to get Staffing holes filled.

10. Volunteering to come in extra to cover holes.

11. Staying late to assist with pyxis fill to support night shift holes. – translates to covering other employee duties.

12. Helping with narcotic expirations to get JCHO ready.

13. Providing input for tech annual reviews.

14. Liaising between main and decentralized staff.

15. Liaising between staff and management.

16. Following through on huddle decisions and the necessary supportive action

17. Helping with patient specific med reconciliation for narc audits on day shift.

18. Training through the years (trained close to 60 RPH on meditech

19. Continuous indirect teaching and support to all new staff and all staff alike where help is requested.

20. Keeping track of special patients with special drug orders and helping to facilitate procurement of the drugs in question.

21. Keeping track of Chemo patients and liaising between staff and nursing.

22. Checking prepacked meds and making sure drugs are linked in both meditech and pyxis.

23. Assisting getting new drugs linked in pyxis and meditech

24. Always been a high performing employee through the years (see meditech stats, vigilanz stats, dosedge stats – before assuming solely the A chair position.

25. Chosen as high performing employee to do the “5-Star Reviews Read By 5-Star Colleagues” video” (had to add this Rusty)

26. Nominated for employee of the year (a few years back)

27. Many recognitions by management and staff on Leading the department (will attach were possible)

28. Recognizing staff using rise system to promote positivity and team work

29. Assisted with pioneering the COE program in initial staffing – training Coe on NAMC order sets. Weekly telephone conferences.

30. Checking and supervising sterile compounding using Dosedge system for over 10 years.

  • Trained close to 60 pharmacist to date
  • North star cards – close to 50
  • Rise recognition software (numerous)

Hospital pharmacist

CECLIA MAKIWANE HOSPITAL
12.2006 - Current
  • Experience
  • Meditech – order entry program
  • Medcom – order software
  • Clinical measures - clinical intervention software
  • Iv certification
  • Vigilanz clinical software
  • DoseEdge – iv review system - > 10 years experience in supervising and checking sterile compounding
  • Onbase
  • Abacus – TPN software
  • Immobile phone and computer communication software
  • Webex

Pharmacist Intern

HCA
04.2006 - 10.2006

Internship includes:

All technician duties

Training on all pharmacist duties


Locum Pharmacist

St Dominic’s Hospital
01.2000 - 01.2005
  • And after hours work in dispensing, patient monitoring, placing and receiving emergency orders
  • Pharmacist on call over weekends

Senior /Principle Clinical Pharmacist

Cecilia Makiwane Hospital
01.1999 - 01.2004
  • Included to date
  • Therapeutic Drug Monitoring for the hospital and the surrounding clinics
  • Provision of Drug Information
  • Coordinating the Intern Pharmacist Program
  • Coordinating the Continuing Pharmacy Education Program
  • Conducting intern tutorials and teaching ward rounds
  • Lecturing Second Year Pharmacology to Nursing students
  • Developing standard operating procedures, policies and guidelines
  • Secretariat for Local and provincial Drugs and Therapeutics committee
  • Coordinating Student exchange programmes
  • Managing the adult epilepsy clinic
  • Facilitating the paediatric neurology clinic
  • Formulating ABC analyses
  • Intern Registration Administration
  • Intern recruitment and Orientation
  • Coordinate and organize Intern Portfolio Presentation Day
  • Compilation of monthly Management Reports
  • Staff and Human Resource Responsibilities

Junior Pharmacist, Ward Pharmacy

Cecilia Makiwane Hospital
01.1998 - 01.1999
  • Ward Management – In-charge of 9 wards
  • Medical chart review
  • Ward Rounds
  • Dispensing and Patient Monitoring
  • Patient counseling
  • Nursing Education Lectures
  • Out – Patients Pharmacy
  • As above for internship year
  • Pharmaceutical Support
  • Pre-packing from bulk supplies
  • Quality assurance
  • Management of non-professional staff
  • Cold chain quality control
  • Dispensing Schedule 5,6 & 7 drugs
  • Balancing of registers
  • Emergency Box preparation
  • Community Projects: Poster on Inhaler use

Intern Pharmacist

Cecilia Makiwane Hospital
01.1997 - 01.1998
  • Rotations and skills acquired:
  • Out patients Department
  • Skills acquired - good dispensing practice and stock control
  • Counseling and Dispensing Skills
  • Rational therapy
  • Pharmaceutical care
  • Drug utilization reviews
  • In patients (Ward Pharmacy)
  • Pioneer of ward pharmacy at the hospital
  • Exposed to Inventory management
  • Rational prescribing
  • Formulary and Formulary restrictions
  • Ward Management
  • Clin lab evaluation
  • Drug administration review
  • Manufacturing;
  • Prepared extemporaneous products
  • Paediatric suspensions
  • Creams
  • Parental admixtures
  • Sterile manufacture
  • Good Manufacturing Practices
  • Batch Control
  • Batch Uniformity
  • Quality Control

Education

Bachelors Degree - Pharmacy, Nutrition

Masters - undefined

MEDUNSA, Medical University of Southern Africa
2004

Baccalaureus - undefined

Rhodes University
1996

Skills

  • Other Skills:
  • Proficient with several pharmacy related computer software Also
  • Microsoft word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access Lotus 123 etc, Info maker –
  • Software
  • Language Proficiency:
  • English - Good oral and written communication
  • Test of Spoken English 55/60

Meditech – order entry program

Medcom – order software

Clinical measures - clinical intervention software

Onbase: written order entry receipt program

Vigilanz clinical software

DoseEdge – iv review system - > 10 years experience in supervising and checking sterile compounding

Onbase

Abacus – TPN software

Immobile phone and computer communication software

Webex

  • TOEFL – 270/300
  • Afrikaans - Average oral and written communication

Accomplishments


Achievements: School

§ Top 3 student of the class from grade 1 – grade 12

§ Deputy Head girl Junior High

Undergrad

§ Awarded Ted and Mabel Everrit Bursary 1992-1996

§ Johnson and Johnson Bursary – 1992-1995

§ TEFSA – finance award

1998 - To date

§ Adverse Drug monitoring Trial – 1998, Article in SAMJ January 1998

§ Asthma Project: Do doctors conform to standard Treatment guidelines - 1999

§ Lecturing 4th year pharmacy undergraduates – 2002 “ Geriatric

Pharmacology”

§ Presented at SAAHIP (South African Association of Hospital and Institutional Pharmacy) 2003 – Poster “ Portfolios and the ELHC”

Podium Presentation : Intern Training: A pre-registration experience with a difference”

§ Presented at the Provincial Pharmacy Conference May 2003 – Podium presentation “ Promoting the Pharmacy Profession”

§ Publication : “A Pre-registration Experience with a Difference” South African Pharmaceutical Journal” Jan/Feb 2004, vol 71 no1 pg 18-21

§ Co–worker for Research Protocol Draft – Evaluating Adherence Monitoring Tools in Patients on anti-retroviral therapy – March 2004

§ Contribution to Publication : Eastern Cape Handbook of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2004

§ HIV Seminar – 22-23 October 2004 – Topics covered 1. Choosing regimens in adults for HAART and challenges. 2. HIV and nutrition in children. 3. Systematic Pharmacology of commonly used ARV’s. 4. Diarrhoeal disease and HIV in children. 5. Ethics and HIV care in constrained resources.

Affiliations

Family Planning Pharmacist Qualification, First Aid Certificate, Drugs and Therapeutics Committee Course Certificate, Info-maker: Management tool – ABC analyses construction Interests Texas Pharmacist Registration : Interested in Clinical psychology, also singing, dancing, reading, and religion. HIV and Aids – the role of pharmacists in adherence. Epilepsy and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring SuccessfullyCompleted : FPGE – score 90 : NAPLEX – score 101 : Texas Jurisprudence – score - 75 Texas Pharmacist License in good standing Special/Projects Involvements Achievements: School Top 3 student of the class from grade 1 – grade 12 Deputy Head girl Junior High Undergrad Awarded Ted and Mabel Everrit Bursary 1992-1996 Johnson and Johnson Bursary – 1992-1995

Certification

  • pharmacy and therapeutics training certificate-

Additional Information

Spear hearded employee recognition committee

Spokesperson for pharmacy department

Identified staff for different committee's

Evaluator for Star tech programme



Languages

afrikaans
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Hospital pharmacist

CECLIA MAKIWANE HOSPITAL
12.2006 - Current

Lead Pharmacist

HCA
04.2006 - Current

Pharmacist Intern

HCA
04.2006 - 10.2006

Locum Pharmacist

St Dominic’s Hospital
01.2000 - 01.2005

Senior /Principle Clinical Pharmacist

Cecilia Makiwane Hospital
01.1999 - 01.2004

Junior Pharmacist, Ward Pharmacy

Cecilia Makiwane Hospital
01.1998 - 01.1999

Intern Pharmacist

Cecilia Makiwane Hospital
01.1997 - 01.1998

Bachelors Degree - Pharmacy, Nutrition

Masters - undefined

MEDUNSA, Medical University of Southern Africa

Baccalaureus - undefined

Rhodes University
DEIDRE SANCHEZ