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Nekeitha McCauley

Fresno,CA

Summary

Qualified professional with proven ability to accurately and efficiently fill medication prescriptions while adhering to quality control. Experienced in delivering excellent customer service, resolving issues and managing inquiries. Skilled in working collaboratively with other healthcare professionals to provide patient care.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Pharmacist

Rite Aid Pharmacy
02.2017 - 10.2023
  • Analysis and comprehensive review of patient profile for opportunities for (MTM) medication therapy management to improve health outcomes & provide clinical interventions, to eliminate therapeutic duplication, drug-drug interactions, dosing changes discussing potential remedy with MD
  • Interviewing patients to improve adherence by discussing barriers that reduces consistency & timely refills
  • Implementing a plan that reduces non-adherence through notifications as reminders, courtesy refills & delivery routinely on maintenance medication. These are all tertiary to primary function such as Interpreting prescription orders, processing, filling, dispensing and counseling patients on every new prescription,~400 per day
  • Educated patients on medication, tools, and equipment to promote patient centered care and increase adherence
  • Establishing workflow
  • Administration of vaccines according to ACIP guidelines
  • Helped patients overcome vaccine hesitancy by providing facts about prevention and statistical data of efficacy
  • Review technician typing for grammatical errors & misspelling, preparation/manipulation of medication product for final verification for pick-up & delivery
  • Completed accurate cycle counts, inventory management and will-calls for customers.
  • Logging of CII's upon receipt with PO# into Mckesson, update on hand inventory & storage into biometric safe

Pharmacist

AlixaRX Pharmacy
05.2016 - 01.2017
  • Providing essential medication regimen to residents in Long Term Care Facility & Skilled Nursing Facilities through Automated Dispensing Units, e-kit authorization, & delivery for 30+ facilities to Northern California area
  • Verify order entry and review e-script, new discharge & telephone orders for appropriate dx/indication & correctness
  • Screen for any package manipulation and review preparation done by technicians
  • Facilitate dispersion to LTC facilities
  • Supervision of pharmacy technician in production, IV preparation and CSR department for orders entered
  • Monitor tech in the field by camera for Canister load CII
  • Evaluation of current patients CBC/metabolic panel, renal panel exercising clinical judgement for appropriate dosing recommendations for IV preparation for dispensing to include monitoring of trough & peak for efficacy & toxicity and continued tx of medication
  • Calculate Glomerular filtration rate & new dosing when necessary
  • Responsible for ADR reconciliation, Error reporting, incident reports & CII logging for canister returns and completion of 222 forms for each facility
  • Utilize REMS to verify patient & MD for registration for Clozapine dispensing, current labs
  • Collaboration with MD, charge nurse, and staff for clarifications of discharge medication orders and reorders, verbal IV reconstitution instructions and recommendations for treatment alternatives for non-formulary medication
  • Receipt of order from Cardinal logging CII medication, locking up in safe room
  • Reordering for inventory and maintaining refrigerator temperatures and appropriateness for medication storage prior to dispensing
  • CII canister preparation and dispensing
  • Opening procedures for warehouse/pharmacy with security code, keys to facility & CII room & alarm.

Pharmacist

Best Choice Pharmacy
09.2014 - 05.2016
  • Solely responsible for running pharmacy daily functions, CII reports, register log, & nightly reports
  • Storage of cash in safe
  • Cashiering, ordering, counting, pouring, & reconstituting medication receiving, & storing inventory
  • Established work-flow, preparation for mail orders & deliver service for patients, delivery sheet/ log/record orders/billing by credit card and call for order pick-up
  • Receipt & processing of e-script, telephone orders, faxed & written new prescriptions and transfer prescriptions
  • Prompt friendly quality customer service, patient counseling, OTC recommendations
  • Prepared medications in blister packs to provide safe and convenient way to take prescribed medication
  • Fill prescriptions, call for clinical intervention of new prescription, ADR's, drug interactions & transfer prescriptions from other pharmacies
  • Check Technician processing of prescriptions & preparation/manipulation of drug product during final verification of medication
  • Responsible for opening & closing procedures of pharmacy (alarm, open/lock-up & cleanliness of pharmacy).
  • Reviewed prescription to confirm appropriate selection of drug, dose and check for interactions with other medications
  • Interpreted prescription orders, dispensed medications, and counseled patients on medications

Intern Pharmacist / Technician

Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC)
06.2006 - 09.2014
  • IV solution admixtures preparation In-patient & Outpatient discharge medications
  • Total Parenteral Nutrition preparation by Baxa, Order entry discharge patients, third party billing, review orders input through Cerner/CPOE
  • Chemotherapy IV admixture preparation, receive & stock, compounding
  • Unit dosing, cassette fill & nursing acquisition fill/reconciliation
  • Pyxis refill, Narcotic dosing/calculation & delivery
  • Compounding oral solutions /suspension & Chemotherapeutic suspension
  • Assist develop in a research project in comparing the effectiveness of Intake nurse input home medication vs pharmacist input home medication
  • Creation for medication trays for look alike sound alike labels (LASA) Tall man lettering JACHO policy & procedures to reduce medication errors
  • Project Assist with Kaban cards system creation & incorporation to improve stock utilization & replenishment
  • Clinal rounds with specialty MD & pharmacist teams for NICU & ONC floors.

Education

Doctorate of Pharmacy - Pharmacy

Loma Linda University, School of Pharmacy
Loma Linda, CA
05.2011

Bachelor Degree of Psychology -

University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
01.2003

Associate of Arts - IGETC

Orange Coast College
Costa Mesa, CA
05.1999

Skills

  • Patient Education
  • Immunization Administration
  • Interpreting Orders
  • Friendly customer service

Licensure Certification Training

  • Registered Pharmacist. State Board of Pharmacy, California
  • Blood Borne Pathogen Certification
  • Immunization Certification (2014)
  • Operation Immunization Award & Certified Loma Linda School of Pharmacy,2015
  • Integrative pharmacist Certification 2020

Community Service

  • Sachs Clinic, SB
  • Walgreens
  • Vons Health Fair
  • SIMS Mission, Mexico
  • Epsilon Betta Gamma
  • Support blue
  • Target
  • Desert Regional Medical Center
  • Bioscript Infusion Services, San Diego

Timeline

Pharmacist

Rite Aid Pharmacy
02.2017 - 10.2023

Pharmacist

AlixaRX Pharmacy
05.2016 - 01.2017

Pharmacist

Best Choice Pharmacy
09.2014 - 05.2016

Intern Pharmacist / Technician

Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC)
06.2006 - 09.2014

Doctorate of Pharmacy - Pharmacy

Loma Linda University, School of Pharmacy

Bachelor Degree of Psychology -

University of California, Irvine

Associate of Arts - IGETC

Orange Coast College

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