Minh Nguyen
Westminster,CA
Summary
Motivated and experienced pharmacist with 3+ years of hospice and long-term care pharmacy with a strong commitment to patient care. Dedicated to providing high-quality pharmaceutical services and building strong relationships with patients. Demonstrated ability to improve patient safety and healthcare outcomes through effective medication management.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Staff Pharmacist
Guardian Pharmacy
Anaheim, CA
01.2023 - Current
- Accurately prepare medications for final dispensing to the patient, including filling, order entry, and packaging
- Review completed orders and cycle-fill medications to ensure prescriptions are filled correctly.
- Verify the legality and pharmaceutical feasibility of dispensing a drug based on patient's' allergies, incompatibilities with current medications, frequency of refills, etc
- Interpret prescription orders, to include exercising professional judgment in determining whether to dispense a particular prescription, taking into account patient's safety and legal limitations
- Counseled patients on proper medication use and potential side effects
- Collaborated with healthcare providers to ensure appropriate medication therapy.
- Attend annual vaccination clinics at numerous assisted living facilities to vaccinate against COVID and influenza.
- Ensured medication safety by verifying physician orders and addressing any clarifications required.
Clinical Pharmacist
Homecare-Rx, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
09.2021 - 01.2023
- Verified over 1,500 prescriptions daily to hospice patient's, while being compliant with state and federal laws
- Managed a productive workflow with a team of 20 to increase patient care services
- Served as reliable professional clinical consultant by educating nurses on drug administration, dosages, use and effects of medications, and drug incompatibilities
- Communicated with hospice representatives regarding formulary management, provided on-demand evidence-based therapeutic consultation
- Utilizing critical thinking skills to provide solutions to get patient's medications delivered to their home/facility at a timely manner
- Involved in hospice PBM Care-RX to provide favorable pricing for local pharmacy dispensing.
- Working with independent pharmacies all over California and neighboring states to provide better cost for hospice patient's
Intern Pharmacist
Homecare-Rx, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
12.2020 - 09.2021
- Filling prescriptions, taking new orders, nurse consultations, making outgoing calls/emails to correct orders placed by nurses
- Reviewed management guidelines for comfort meds: pain, nausea and vomiting, excessive secretions, anxiety/agitation, diarrhea, constipation, edema
- Collaborated with health care professionals for prescription verification to process new and transfer existing prescriptions.
- Increased productivity and cost-effective prescription processing by participating in continuous quality workflow process improvement meetings, brainstorming issues and identifying resolutions
Education
Doctor of Pharmacy -
Roseman University of Health Sciences
Henderson, Nevada01.2021
Bachelor of Arts - Public Health
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California01.2017
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Digital-Rx
- RxClearinghouse
- Framework
- Prescription drug interaction assessment
- Critical Thinking
- Patient Counseling
- Immunization services
- Medication dispensing
- Clinical decision support
- Detail orientation
- Pharmacotherapy Knowledge
- Medication Therapy Management
- Inventory control and administration
Certification
- California Pharmacist License, RPH #85237, 01/2021, Present
- APhA Immunization Administration Certificate, 01/2018, Present
- AHA BLS Certification, 01/2023, 12/2025
Languages
English, Advanced
Vietnamese, Advanced
Timeline
Staff Pharmacist
Guardian Pharmacy
01.2023 - Current
Clinical Pharmacist
Homecare-Rx, Inc.
09.2021 - 01.2023
Intern Pharmacist
Homecare-Rx, Inc.
12.2020 - 09.2021
- California Pharmacist License, RPH #85237, 01/2021, Present
- APhA Immunization Administration Certificate, 01/2018, Present
- AHA BLS Certification, 01/2023, 12/2025
Doctor of Pharmacy -
Roseman University of Health Sciences
Bachelor of Arts - Public Health
University of California, Irvine
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