Van Chung
Garland,TX
Summary
Licensed Pharmacist with expertise working within hospitals and community pharmacies. Adept at dispensing medicines, evaluating medication orders, educating patients, and maintaining inventories. Familiar with potential drug interactions and contraindications for a great variety of drug therapies. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills when working closely with patients, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Well-organized, efficient, and hard-working to prevent medication errors and enhance patient outcomes.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Staff Pharmacist
Vibra Speciality Hospital At Richardson
03.2022 - Current
- Check prescriptions for appropriate dosage, drug interactions, allergies and contra-indications before dispensing medications.
- Supervise compounding activities, ensuring accuracy in preparation of medications.
- Evaluated drug therapy to drive appropriate medicine use.
- Prepare and dispense IV medications.
- Review patient labs and adjust TPN orders.
- Perform pharmacokinetics monitoring to maintain drug dosing per hospital protocol.
- Responsible for antibiotic dosing of vancomycin and aminoglycosides and order drug levels to maintain efficacy and safety of the treatments.
- Monitor antibiotic sensitivities of bacterial cultures and make recommendation in changing to appropriate treatment as needed.
- Participate in patient care plan to ensure the treatment plans are effective and safe for the patients.
- Work with Pyxis automated dispensing machines to securely store and manage the stock of narcotics and other controlled drugs.
- Manage medication inventory.
Pharmacy Manager/Staff Pharmacist
CVS Pharmacy
09.2020 - Current
- Educated patients on possible drug interactions, potential side effects, and appropriate use of medications.
- Administer vaccines to immunize patients.
- Resolve prescription-related issues with third-party insurance companies.
- Train pharmacy interns and newly hired pharmacy technicians.
- Review prescription orders to assess accuracy and safety before dispensing to the patients.
- Analyze prescribing trends to monitor patient adherence and prevent drug abuse.
- Communicate with physicians to prevent serious drug interactions, therapy duplications and allergic reactions.
- Recommend OTC medications and equipment options after help alleviate individual symptoms.
- Monitor the dispensing of controlled substances to prevent drug addiction.
- Manage budget of the pharmacy, controlling expenses to optimize profitability.
- Manage weekly schedule of the pharmacy staff.
- Address customer complaints and resolve the issues effectively and improve customer services.
- Ensure safety protocols and federal regulations to maintain pharmacy compliance.
- Enhance patient safety by working on drug utilization reviews to prevent potential drug interactions or any allergic reactions.
- Manage medication inventory in the pharmacy.
Education
Doctor of Pharmacy -
Temple University School of Pharmacy
Philadelphia, PA05.2020
Associate of Science - Biology
Richland College
Dallas, TX05.2015
Skills
- Drug utilization review
- Medication Dispensing
- Patient education and counseling
- Committed to quality assurance
- Drug Interactions Monitoring
- Sterile/Non-sterile compounding
- Medication Therapy Management
- Drug Inventory Management
- Customer Service and Communication Skills
- Drug safety
- Monitoring therapeutic effectiveness
- Dosing recommendations
Certification
- National IV Training Certificate - August 2020
- American Pharmacists Association Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery Certification - December 2019
- Basic Life Support Certification - December 2019
- Medication Therapy Management Training Certification - May 2019
- The Drug Safety Certification - May 2019
- Overdose Awareness & Reversal Certification - Mar 2019
Timeline
Staff Pharmacist
Vibra Speciality Hospital At Richardson
03.2022 - Current
Pharmacy Manager/Staff Pharmacist
CVS Pharmacy
09.2020 - Current
Doctor of Pharmacy -
Temple University School of Pharmacy
Associate of Science - Biology
Richland College
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