Jennifer Polansky
Cave Creek
Summary
Knowledgeable, team-oriented, and caring pharmacist with excellent leadership skills and management experience in the community pharmacy setting. Demonstrates expertise in customer service, medication therapy management, drug utilization reviews, immunization delivery, and patient counseling while focusing on improving patient outcomes by providing compassionate, evidence-based pharmaceutical care.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Pharmacy Manager
Walgreen's Pharmacy
Store 6534, Scottsdale
06.2005 - Current
- Manage and continuously train a pharmacy team of 1 staff pharmacist and 8 technicians at the current location to produce approximately 400 prescription orders daily on time, resulting in increased patient satisfaction and sales.
- Educate patients on administration, potential adverse events, side effects, duration of therapy, and other clinical information on new prescriptions, including any changes in therapy.
- Collaborate with healthcare providers on pharmaceutical care for mutual patients by providing safe, effective, and cost-saving medication alternatives to patients.
- Provide quality pharmaceutical care to patients, including accurately dispensing prescriptions, managing duplications in therapy, identifying medication errors, checking drug interactions, and counseling patients on healthcare-related issues, including prescription and non-prescription medications.
- Perform adherence patient phone interactions on new therapy medication conversions to 90-day prescriptions, gaps in therapy, and late refills of medications to increase compliance and decrease overall healthcare costs.
- Provide point-of-care testing to patients, including blood pressure screening and COVID/Influenza screening, along with necessary lifestyle education, counseling, and referral to care if necessary based on results.
- Manage drug inventory levels to minimize store-level inventory and carrying costs by utilizing returns.
- Initiate patient-focused immunization services and exceeded annual influenza immunization goals through technician education, analysis of patient profiles, establishing off-site clinics, and consistent patient engagement.
- Train the newly hired pharmacist for the area on all pharmacy operations, pharmacy SOPs, and state and federal regulations.
- Ensure compliance with federal and state regulations and laws pertaining to dispensing and record keeping.
- Perform mediation therapy management telephone interactions weekly, interacting with patients to identify and remove barriers to optimize medication therapy, increase patient adherence, and increase CMS 5-star ratings.
- Comply with all federal and state pharmacy regulations.
Pharmacy Manager
Walgreen's Pharmacy
Store 3766, Scottsdale
12.2019 - 07.2021
Pharmacy Manager
Walgreen's Pharmacy
Store 4020, Glendale
02.2009 - 12.2019
Pharmacy Manager
Walgreen's Pharmacy
Store 4139, Phoenix
12.2007 - 02.2009
Pharmacy Manager
Walgreen's Pharmacy
Store 6065, Phoenix
06.2005 - 12.2007
Pharmacy Manager
Frys Pharmacy
Phoenix
03.2001 - 06.2005
Staff Pharmacist
Target Pharmacy
Scottsdale
02.1999 - 03.2001
Staff Pharmacist
Osco Drug
Phoenix
05.1997 - 02.1999
Education
Doctorate of Pharmacy -
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND05-1997
Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy -
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND05-1997
Skills
- Medication therapy management
- Patient education
- Drug interaction analysis
- Regulatory compliance
- Point-of-care testing
- Inventory management
- Pharmaceutical care
- Pharmacy Management
- Pharmacy operations
- Adherence and Compliance
- Third party resolutions
- Opioid stewardship
Certification
- Arizona Board of Pharmacy Pharmacist License
- Arizona Board Certified Immunizer
- American Pharmacists Association Pharmacy Based Immunization Delivery
- Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers
Timeline
Pharmacy Manager
Walgreen's Pharmacy
12.2019 - 07.2021
Pharmacy Manager
Walgreen's Pharmacy
02.2009 - 12.2019
Pharmacy Manager
Walgreen's Pharmacy
12.2007 - 02.2009
Pharmacy Manager
Walgreen's Pharmacy
06.2005 - Current
Pharmacy Manager
Walgreen's Pharmacy
06.2005 - 12.2007
Pharmacy Manager
Frys Pharmacy
03.2001 - 06.2005
Staff Pharmacist
Target Pharmacy
02.1999 - 03.2001
Staff Pharmacist
Osco Drug
05.1997 - 02.1999
Doctorate of Pharmacy -
North Dakota State University
Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy -
North Dakota State University