Henrietta Attah Boateng
Pharmacist
Waxhaw,NC
Summary
Profile North and South Carolina licensed pharmacist with 10 + years experience delivering high-quality pharmaceutical care in retail settings. Advanced certification in Pharmacist Immunization Delivery. Combine clinical skills with business acumen and a proven ability to grow pharmacy revenues. Research, prepare and dispense medications and other pharmaceuticals according to professional standards and legal requirements. Highly passionate on providing patients medical advice based on their symptoms, and with any information needed to take medications safely. Advise physicians on storing and prescribing medications, supervise the preparation of prescriptions and maintain legal compliance. Dedicated Pharmacist offering 10+ years of experience ensuring accurate review, processing and dispensing of medications in alignment with orders. Skilled in collaborating with team members to expedite urgent requests while maintaining impeccable focus on safety, accuracy and confidentiality. Advanced communicator with all levels of staff, clients, management and healthcare administrators.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Clinical Pharmacist
Aspen RxHealth
04.2022 - Current
- Partnered with physicians and other members of healthcare team to optimize patient care through effective use of medications.
- Advised physicians on how to properly dose medications.
- Provides medication therapy management including examination of member medical records, performing comprehensive medication review, and communicating with members and providers, including outbound calls to members to discuss their medications.
- Evaluated patient histories to assess medication compliance and spot issues such as doctor shopping or excessive usage
- Educated patients on possible drug interactions, potential side effects and optimal methods of administration.
- Reviews members' medication profiles and applies evidence-based medicine and national guidelines when creating recommendations to health care providers for optimizing members' medication regimen
- Researches, develops, and implements drug utilization and disease state management strategies and intervention techniques to deliver high quality, cost effective healthcare.
- Follows up with members and providers to check on progress toward meeting drug treatment goals.
Pharmacy Manager
WALMART
03.2021 - Current
- Supervised team of 8 pharmacy technicians.
- Collaborated with store manager to maintain daily operations.
- Developed policies and procedures for effective pharmacy management.
- Analyzes and reviews medication lists for potential patient safety problems, including drug interactions, and suboptimal medication regimens.
- Developed and updated policies and procedures, maintaining compliance with statutory, regulatory and local, state and federal guidelines relating to HIPAA, benefits administration and general liability.
- Performs prior authorization reviews of high-cost medications and deferred authorization requests as needed.
- Vaccinated patients to provide immunity against influenza, pneumonia and other diseases.
- Researches, develops, and implements drug utilization and disease state management strategies and intervention techniques to deliver high quality, cost effective healthcare.
- Reviews and analyzes pharmacy benefit manager reports to track general trends in drug utilization and identify potential targeted utilization management activities.
- Ordered all pharmacy supplies and kept check on inventory levels.
- Trained pharmacy interns and newly hired pharmacy technicians.
- Liaised with other healthcare professionals to develop comprehensive patient care plans and provide highest quality of care
Staff Pharmacist
Walmart
03.2018 - 03.2021
- Provides comprehensive patient care to customers by processing and accurately dispensing prescription orders; administering immunizations; counseling customers regarding health care and prescription medication needs; and maintaining confidential information, controlled medications and required documentation
- Checked prescriptions for appropriate dosage, drug interactions, allergies and contra-indications before dispensing medications.
- Verifies prescriptions, Takes new prescriptions and evaluates patient histories and drug utilization review
- Interprets physicians' prescriptions and creates orders, accesses, inputs, and retrieves prescription information from computer system and verifies whether order is reimbursable
- Consults with customers, patients and / or physicians regarding use of medications and potential drug interactions
- Conducts Quality Assurance and verifies accuracy of all prescriptions
- Drives sales and profit in Pharmacy and OTC areas by ensuring effective merchandise presentation, including accurate and competitive pricing, proper signing, in-stock and inventory levels, budgeting and forecasting sales, developing and maintaining cross functional relationships, and assessing economic trends and demographics
- Ensures compliance with Company and legal policies, procedures, and regulations for assigned areas by analyzing and interpreting reports, implementing and monitoring loss prevention and safety controls, overseeing safety, operational, and quality assurance re- views, developing and implementing action plans, and providing direction and guidance on executing Company programs and strategic initiatives
- Provides supervision and development opportunities for Associates in assigned areas by selecting, training, mentoring, assigning duties, providing performance feedback, providing recognition, and ensuring diversity awareness
- Assists call center pharmacy technicians with clinical questions and phone calls from prescribers, pharmacies and/or members
- Develops, implements and maintains pharmacy cost control and quality initiatives under direction of leadership
- Monitors drug utilization and assists leadership team in understanding quality and cost control issues related to pharmacy
- Performs outreach to patients and physicians as part of quality and/or cost control initiatives.
Specialty Pharmacist
WALGREENS
11.2012 - 03.2018
- Establishing and maintaining patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients
- Maintaining proper storage and security conditions for drugs
- Prepackaging bulk medicines, filling bottles with prescribed medications, and typing and affixing labels
- Verifying prescriptions and counseling
- Expert understanding of Medicare and Medicaid processes, HIPAA trained Pharmacist with strong background in FDA drug Safety
- Prepares medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders; detecting therapeutic incompatibilities
- Dispenses medications by compounding, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals.
Education
Doctor of Pharmacy - Pharmacy
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN05.2012
Skills
- Medication Therapy Management
- Regulatory Requirements
- Drug Inventory Management
- Pharmacy Operations Management
- Utilization Management
- Medication Review
- Outbound Calls
- Evidence-Based Medicine
- Treatment Goals
- Referrals
- Utilization Reports
Accomplishments
- Ent cultures, ethnicities, and identities through regular programming initiatives
- Collaborates with other organizations that share a similar vision, and recognizesthe need for combined efforts in fostering an inclusive and celebratory environ-ment both within the College of Pharmacy and beyond
- Technology MSOffice (Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Access/Project), 75WPM,Data analysis, Lotus notes,
- PeopleSoft, Outlook
Affiliations
Training Minnesota Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Committee Member –June 2011 to present
Help people achieve optimal health outcomes through support and advancement
of the professional practice of pharmacy
Felicitated development programs to obtain career development and set up
structure
Minnesota Pharmacists Association
Committee Member - June 2011- present
Attend conferences throughout the US on current best Pharmacy practices and
regulatory compliances components.
Multicultural pharmacy student organization
Committee Member - September 08-present
Served as an advocate for the awareness, celebration, and appreciation of differ
Timeline
Clinical Pharmacist
Aspen RxHealth
04.2022 - Current
Pharmacy Manager
WALMART
03.2021 - Current
Staff Pharmacist
Walmart
03.2018 - 03.2021
Specialty Pharmacist
WALGREENS
11.2012 - 03.2018
Doctor of Pharmacy - Pharmacy
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
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