Rima Husain
Forest Hills,NY
Summary
Dynamic and detail-oriented pharmacist with extensive experience at Paul Meyer, excelling in medication therapy management and patient education. Proven track record in improving pharmacy operations and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Skilled in drug utilization review and fostering effective communication with healthcare professionals to enhance patient care.
Overview
36
36
years of professional experience
Work History
Pharmacist
Sunny Sheikh
05.2021 - Current
- Vaccinated patients to provide immunity against influenza, pneumonia, and other diseases.
- Provided patients with specific administration guidelines.
- Assisted other pharmacy staff with drug inventory, purchasing and receiving.
- Performed technical processes required to dispense medications to patients.
Pharmacist
Paul Meyer
04.1989 - 12.2020
- Monitored medication dispensing machines within hospital pharmacy to make supplies readily available to clinical staff.
- Displayed patient-oriented and comprehensive clinical pharmacy services and pharmaceutical care.
- Hand counted controlled medications, measured liquids and reconstituted antibiotics.
- Reconstituted oral liquids.
- Completed accurate cycle counts, inventory management and will-calls for customers.
- Closely monitored department performance metrics.
- Provided consultations and answered inquiries from patients, healthcare professionals and physicians regarding drugs, potential side effects, and specified use.
- Supervised and coached team of pharmacy technicians and trainees.
- Dispensed and verified patient prescription orders, conducting necessary utilization reviews.
- Managed drug and supply inventories.
- Monitored ordering of pharmacy medication stock to maintain streamlined inventory and low overhead.
- Effectively prioritized tasks and organized workflow to increase efficiency.
- Assisted other pharmacy staff with drug inventory, purchasing and receiving.
- Performed technical processes required to dispense medications to patients.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Pharmacy
07.1989
GPA 3.9
Skills
- Monthly narcotic inventories
- Maintaining records
- Drug utilization review
- Risk management
- Overseeing interns
- Setting up profiles
- Continuing education
- Software trained
- Documentation skills
- Quality improvement initiatives
- Documentation
- Medication expertise
- Patient counseling
- Medicare and medicaid process
- Dosing recommendations
- Treatment consulting
- Regulatory requirements
- Patient education and counseling
- Drug utilization evaluation
- Clinical decision making
- Storage procedures
- Prescription filling
- Safety
- Immunization administration
- Drug safety
- Order fulfillment
- Promotion of health and disease prevention
- Pharmacy operations management
- Quality review processes
- Resolving complaints
- State licensed pharmacist
- Medication storage
- Insurance coordination
- Quality assurance controls
- Retail support
- Physician consultation
- Improving processes
- Preparing sterile and Non-sterile compounds
- OTC recommendations
- Current state pharmacy license
- Process improvements
- Interpreting and processing medication orders
- Managing products
- Dispensing medications
- Patient reaction monitoring
- Supply chain management
- Directing pharmacy operations
- Pharmacy inventory and recordkeeping
- Completing annual inventories
- Educating patients
- Company policy compliance
- Billing management
- FDA drug safety guidelines
- Loss prevention controls
- Medication therapy management
- Identifying Counter-indicated drugs
- Clinical research
- Profitability understanding
- Quality assurance standards
- Operations support
- Proper storage
- Compounding
- Compounding experience
- Regulatory compliance
- Overseeing technicians
- Reviewing prescriptions
- Regulatory standards
- Drug security
- Monitoring therapeutic effectiveness
- Prescription verification
- Pharmaceutical calculations
- Customer service and communication skills
- Verifying orders
- Safety awareness
- Technology integration
- Coordinating inventory
- Vaccination administration
- EHR management
- Drug inventory management
- Drug interactions
- Confidentiality and HIPAA
- Administering vaccines
- Supervising technicians
- Dispensing medicines
- Overseeing pharmacy operations
- Recall monitoring
- Delegating assignments
- Interpreting orders
- Drug storage
- Controlled substance tracking
- Controlled drug logging
- Calculating doses
- Verifying inventory
- Medication dispensing and immunizing
- Sales skills
- Supply ordering
Languages
English
Professional Working
Urdu
Professional Working
Hindi
Professional Working
Software
30 Yr with micro merchant
Timeline
Pharmacist - Sunny Sheikh
05.2021 - Current
Pharmacist - Paul Meyer
04.1989 - 12.2020
St John's University - Bachelor of Science, Pharmacy
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