To highlight my skills, education, qualifications and clinical experience whilst in pursuit of a challenging, exciting, and potentially satisfying employment opportunity.
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.
Internship includes:
All technician duties
Training on all pharmacist duties
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
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.
Spear hearded employee recognition committee
Spokesperson for pharmacy department
Identified staff for different committee's
Evaluator for Star tech programme