SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Result-oriented leader with exceptional critical thinking skills. Excellent communicator with superior skills in workplace relationship cultivation and personnel motivation to enhance productivity. Recognized for exceeding job expectations by providing personable and effective customer service and counseling in an efficient manner while developing lasting relationships with customers.
Walgreens
Pharmacist - September 2009 - Present
- Review prescriptions to assure accuracy, to ascertain the needed ingredients, and to evaluate their suitability.
- Provide information and advice regarding drug interactions, side effects, dosage and proper medication storage.
- Analyze prescribing trends to monitor patient compliance and to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions.
- Provide specialized services to help patients manage conditions such as diabetes, asthma, smoking cessation, or high blood pressure.
- Advise customers on the selection of medication brands, medical equipment and health-care supplies.
- Collaborate with other health care professionals to plan, monitor, review, and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of drugs and drug regimens, providing advice on drug applications and characteristics.
- Compound and dispense medications as prescribed by doctors and dentists, by calculating, weighing, measuring, and mixing ingredients, or oversee these activities.
- Offer health promotion and prevention activities, for example, training people to use devices such as blood pressure or diabetes monitors.
- Refer patients to other health professionals and agencies when appropriate.
- Prepare sterile solutions and infusions for use in surgical procedures, emergency rooms, or patients' homes.
Walgreens
Pharmacy Intern - January 2008 - September 2009
- Responsible for the efficient and timely delivery of pharmaceutical care in a fast-paced, patient driven retail setting. Maintains a strong ability to perform multiple pharmacy operations including, but not limited to, the intake, processing, and accurate delivery of pharmacy services and products to customers. Exceeded company wait time goals through the ability to efficiently coordinate staff and technological resources to produce optimal work-flow and customer service.
Norman Regional Hospital
Pharmacy Tech/Intern - December 2005 - May 2008
- Maintained numerous responsibilities in an in-patient pharmacy setting including the processing, preparing and delivering of IV-admixtures, utilizing Meditech and HBO/Star software systems coordinated with Pyxis machines to ensure accurate and efficient delivery of patient-specific and floor-stock medications facility-wide, and to maintain a perpetual inventory of both dispensed and outdated medications. Also, provided drug information services via telephone, computer and/or face-to-face with other health-care personnel and/or patients to ensure the optimal delivery of pharmaceutical care.
- Education
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
University of Oklahoma
- B.S. in Sports Medicine w/minor in Chemistry