Lori Watkins
San Antonio,TX
Summary
Experienced Clinical Pharmacist with 10 years of practice delivering evidence-based pharmaceutical care in an inpatient setting. Expertise includes pharmacokinetic dosing, therapeutic drug monitoring, order verification, and clinical interventions that enhance patient safety in compliance with hospital guidelines.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Clinical Pharmacist
Methodist Hospital
05.2016 - Current
- Interpret, verify, and optimize medication orders for safety, efficacy, and guideline adherence using evidence-based practices.
- Utilize Meditech for order verification and intervention tracking.
- Prepare, compound, and dispense medications with precision and adherence to safety standards.
- Collaborate with healthcare providers to optimize pharmacotherapy plans.
- Verify pediatric and weight-based dosing with age-appropriate pharmacokinetic considerations.
- Monitor for clinically significant drug-drug, drug-allergy, and drug-food interactions to optimize medication safety.
- Serve as a drug information resource, delivering accurate, timely recommendations to physicians, nurses, and allied health staff.
- Perform and manage vancomycin and aminoglycoside dosing and monitoring consultations; implemented and trained colleagues on addressing consultations overnight.
- Improve overnight clinical coverage by integrating Vigilanz clinical surveillance workflows into routine pharmacist review processes.
- Perform high alert medication review and risk mitigation utilizing appropriate auxiliary labels and alerts; created the "do not tube" sticker to prevent medication waste and provide cost-saving measures.
- Maintain licensure for preceptorship to train pharmacy students and/or residents on clinical care and medication dispensing.
- Monitor medication dispensing machines within hospital pharmacy to make supplies readily available to clinical staff.
- Provide basic user assistance and support for Pyxis automated dispensing machines.
PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
Methodist Hospital
05.2015 - 05.2016
- Provided comprehensive clinical pharmacy services across multiple inpatient rotations (internal medicine, ICU, infectious diseases, emergency medicine, pediatrics, transplant, and psychiatric services).
- Participated in interdisciplinary rounds to optimize medication therapy and improve patient outcomes.
- Completed pharmacokinetic consultations for vancomycin and aminoglycosides, including serum level interpretation and dosing adjustments.
- Assisted with inpatient medication order verification.
- Responded to emergency situations such as code blues, rapid responses, and stroke alerts.
- Precepted pharmacy students and assisted with staff pharmacist responsibilities.
- Collaborated with physicians to update hospital protocols to streamline medication management processes (CIWA protocol).
- Presented findings from clinical studies at departmental meetings, contributing to ongoing education amongst pharmacy staff.
- Designed educational materials and programs to enhance the knowledge and skills of fellow staff members (proper IV lab garbing procedure, consolidated and organized entire compounding recipe catalog, updated "do not tube" list).
- Led a pharmacy research project involving protocol development, IRB processes, data analysis, and formal presentation.
- Assisted other pharmacy staff with controlled substance inventory counts.
Education
Doctor of Pharmacy -
Texas A&M Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy
Kingsville, TX05-2015
Bachelor of Science - Biomedical Sciences
Texas A&M University of Kingsville
Kingsville, TX05-2011
Skills
- Clinical documentation
- Patient care optimization
- Pharmacokinetic analysis
- Adverse drug reaction monitoring
- Drug utilization review
- Healthcare policy awareness
- Therapeutic drug monitoring
- Drug information expertise
- Pharmaceutical calculations
- Management of high-risk medications
Certification
Registered Pharmacist, License #56968,
PGY1 Pharmacy Residency- ASHP Accredited,
Intravenous Sterile Products and Admixture Certification
Timeline
Clinical Pharmacist
Methodist Hospital
05.2016 - Current
PGY1 Pharmacy Resident
Methodist Hospital
05.2015 - 05.2016
Doctor of Pharmacy -
Texas A&M Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy
Bachelor of Science - Biomedical Sciences
Texas A&M University of Kingsville