LAUREN DENTON
Van Buren,AR
Summary
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 best practice. Advanced communicator with all levels of staff, clients, management and healthcare administrators. Experienced in clinical institutional settings and sterile compounding.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Staff Pharmacist
Baptist Health Medical Center
Little Rock, AR
05.2012 - 09.2013
- Review prescriptions to assure accuracy, to ascertain the needed ingredients, and to evaluate their suitability
- Provide information and advice regarding drug interactions, side effects, dosage, and proper medication storage
- Plan, implement, or maintain procedures for mixing, packaging, or labeling pharmaceuticals, according to policy and legal requirements, to ensure quality, security, and proper disposal
- Collaborate with other health care professionals to plan, monitor, review, or evaluate the quality or effectiveness of drugs or drug regimens, providing advice on drug applications or characteristics
- Clinically adjust medications based on pharmacy protocols according to individual patient parameters and formulary
- Round with treatment teams to provide appropriate medication usage
- Ensure medication reconciliation is completed and approved by pharmacist on every patient admitted
- Monitor patients clinically and adjust medications based on clinical response
- Aseptically compound CSP's including antibiotics, TPNs, chemotherapy
- Educated patients on possible drug interactions, potential side effects and optimal methods of administration
- Trained pharmacy residents and interns on clinical care and medication dispensing
- Pharmacist-in-Charge | River Valley Compounding - Van Buren, AR
- Advised patients on medication side effects and contraindications and explained how to properly take medicine
- Ensure non-sterile compounds are made according to formula designed
- Enforced non-sterile compounding regulations as per USP
- Perform inventory and maintain controlled substance inventory
- Responsible for contacting insurances to set up pharmacy contracts.
Clinical Staff Pharmacist I
Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock
Little Rock, AR
08.2014 - 04.2019
- Review prescriptions to assure accuracy, to ascertain the needed ingredients, and to evaluate their suitability
- Provide information and advice regarding drug interactions, side effects, dosage, and proper medication storage
- Plan, implement, or maintain procedures for mixing, packaging, or labeling pharmaceuticals, according to policy and legal requirements, to ensure quality, security, and proper disposal
- Collaborate with other health care professionals to plan, monitor, review, or evaluate the quality or effectiveness of drugs or drug regimens, providing advice on drug applications or characteristics
- Clinically adjust medications based on pharmacy protocols according to individual patient parameters and formulary
- Ensure medication reconciliation is completed and approved by pharmacist on every patient admitted
- Monitor patients clinically and adjust medications based on clinical response.
Director of Operations/Pharmacist
KabaFusion LLC
Fort Smith, AR
10.2016 - 09.2021
- Highly experienced and effective communicator and team leader, supervised staff of 11 members
- Accomplished in conflict resolution and critical thinking
- Proficient in multiple state and federal regulations regarding dispensation of medications
- Trained in USP 797 and 800 requirements for clean room management and CSPs
- Defined, implemented and revised operational policies and guidelines.
- Managed inventory and trained new employees according to job descriptions
- Responsible for overseeing pharmacy fiscal goals, distribution costs, held sales management, and EBITDA
- Collaborates with sales representative about most effective local marketing strategies
- Dedicated to excellent patient care and meticulous pharmacy management
- Evaluated patient histories to assess medication compliance and appropriateness of therapy
- Advised patients on medication side effects and contraindications and explained how to properly take medicine.
- Monitored office workflow and administrative processes to keep operations running smoothly.
- Achieved team goals through formalized training plans, coaching and performance management.
- Provided clinical monitoring on all patients and coordinated adjustments to regimens with providers
Director of Pharmacy/Pharmacist-in-Charge
Valley Behavioral Health Sys
Barling, AR
09.2021 - Current
- Adhered to pharmacy laws and code of ethics.
- Dispensed and verified patient prescription orders, conducting necessary utilization reviews.
- Participated and led pharmacy continuous quality and process improvement for hospital.
- Participated in drug formulary review and modification during hospital P&T committee meetings.
- Provided recommendations to providers for appropriate medication therapy based on patient parameters and current guidelines.
- Displayed patient-oriented and comprehensive clinical pharmacy services and pharmaceutical care.
- Managed drug and supply inventories.
- Effectively prioritized tasks and organized workflow to increase efficiency.
- Monitored ordering of pharmacy medication stock to maintain streamlined inventory and low overhead, keeping pharmacy department well under budget.
- Monitored medication dispensing machines within hospital pharmacy to make supplies readily available to clinical staff.
- Closely monitored department performance metrics.
- Provided consultations and answered inquiries from patients, healthcare professionals and physicians regarding drugs, potential side effects and specified use.
- Implemented new medication override stipulations and guidelines that minimized unnecessary overrides which in turn decreased administrative errors while in effect.
Education
PharmD - Pharmacy
University of Arkansas For Medical Sciences
05.2012
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
Henderson State University
12.2007
Skills
- Trained in EPIC order entry
- Clinical pharmacy
- Manual and automated medication dispensing
- Monitoring and Modifying Medications
- Advising and Educating Patients
- Overseeing Pharmacy Operations
- Side Effect and Usage Education
- Pharmacy Policies and Procedures
- Pharmaceutical Compounding
- Drug Inventory Management
Certification
- Multi-state licensure (Arkansas and Oklahoma)
Timeline
Director of Pharmacy/Pharmacist-in-Charge
Valley Behavioral Health Sys
09.2021 - Current
Director of Operations/Pharmacist
KabaFusion LLC
10.2016 - 09.2021
Clinical Staff Pharmacist I
Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock
08.2014 - 04.2019
Staff Pharmacist
Baptist Health Medical Center
05.2012 - 09.2013
PharmD - Pharmacy
University of Arkansas For Medical Sciences
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
Henderson State University
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