NAVEEN RAVELA

Dedicated Pharmacist with experience in providing clinical medication judgments, dispensing medications, ensuring patient safety, and providing comprehensive pharmaceutical care. Skilled in clinical medication therapy management, drug interactions screening, and patient counseling.

Work directly with physicians and other health care professionals to ensure that the medications prescribed for patients contribute to the best possible health outcomes.

Proficient healthcare professional ready to pursue new opportunities while achieving personal and professional growth. Eager and adaptable Clinical pharmacist with strong customer service skills looking to pursue new opportunities in a hospital Setting.

Experience in different roles as a Clinical Pharmacist

• Director of Pharmacy
• Clinical Coordinator
• Clinical Pharmacist
• Pharmacy Manager (Functional & Clinical)
• Staff Pharmacist

Working/consulting with different Hospital Networks

• Adventist Health
• Sutter Health
• Commonspirit/ Dignity Health
• University of California

Responsibilities

• provides drug information and assists physicians in providing appropriate drug therapy for pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients
• compounds, prepares, mixes, manufactures and dispenses medicines and preparations

Soliant Health 2012 – present
Clinical Pharmacist – Travel
Worksites include:
• Natividad Medical Center
• Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital
• UC Davis Medical Center
• Community Medical Center - Fresno
• UCSF Medical Center

Essential Functions

• Processes, enters, verifies, and sends medication orders within the institution in a timely manner that is in compliance with department and hospital policies, Joint Commission and other regulatory guidelines, while actively ensuring that medication therapy is efficacious, safe, convenient, and cost effective and establishing the best therapeutic outcomes. Assures that medication prescribing is optimal with respect to indication, dose, route, frequency, history of allergy, and does not duplicate or interact with the effects of other drugs.
• Conducts and manages daily reports on medication utilization based upon daily rounds to identify, catalogue, and subsequently analyze areas in which medication improvement is needed. Consistently performs quality assurance procedures in related work areas. • Participates in all pharmacy-related tasks and programs such as clinical rounds, emergency department, short-staffed areas, and all other areas as directed/necessitated. Expedites changes needed to meet regulatory, accrediting, licensing, and government agency standards and laws.
• Participates in department cost savings. Complies with drug formulary and appropriate documentation. Collaborates with appropriate leadership and buyer to purchase, contract, and procure medications and related supplies in order to ensure that product and vendor selection is based upon the highest medication safety standards.
• Assists in making recommendations on process improvement or development of new pharmacy services. Individuals experiencing exposed rashes, sunburn, weeping sores, conjunctivitis, active respiratory infections or other communicable disease, or those wearing cosmetics, nail polish, or artificial nails shall be excluded from the ISO Class 5 and ISO Class 7 compounding areas until their conditions are remedied.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

• Walgreens, 2009 to 2015
  Pharmacy Manager

• Sharp Hospital Inpatient Pharmacy, 2006 - 2009.
  Intern Clinical Pharmacist duties
  • Providing better patient care and services to all the floors as a pharmacist.
  • Providing better patient care by doing clinical consultation such as Coumadin clinics, antibiotic
  dosing, TPN monitoring, pain management, IV to Po switches and automation updates.
  • Worked closely on special project on Medication reconciliation of patients who come to the ER
  and admitted into the hospital, checking for med interactions, getting patients past history of
  medications, allergies and so forth which allows the Practitioners to provide a better care.

• CVS Pharmacy, 2005 - 2009.
  Intern Pharmacist duties
  • Providing patient services by filling Medications, counseling patients regarding drug
  interactions and benefits of drugs and their contraindications.
  • Making sure to have an ethical work flow in the pharmacy and scheduling the pharmacy staff.
  • Implementing all new protocols & plans in order to procure more business for the company.
  • Following the company policies and procedures, implementing and showing them the new ways
  to provide customer service and procure more business.