New Graduate Registered Nurse

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Pharmacy Resident 

Job Summary and Qualifications

This position is 52 weeks long PGY1 residency program built upon Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) education and outcomes to develop pharmacist practitioners with knowledge, skills, and abilities as defined in the educational competency areas, goals, and objectives. Residents who successfully complete PGY1 residency programs will be skilled in diverse patient care, practice management, leadership, and education, and be prepared to provide patient care, seek board certification in pharmacotherapy (i.e., BCPS), and pursue advanced education and training opportunities including postgraduate year two (PGY2) residencies

• Read and adhere to the current residency manual entitled “Reston Hospital Center PGY1 Pharmacy Resident Handbook”
• Complete the required Core and Graduation Residency Requirements in the current residency manual.
• Maintain documentation and self-evaluation in a timely manner within PharmAcademic or similar system
• The resident shall perform as a pharmacist including interpreting, compounding and dispensing medications and other pharmaceutical supplies according to physician orders issued in a lawful manner by an authorized prescriber in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
• Provide requested drug information to healthcare professionals and patients, participate in clinical pharmacy services and provide pharmaceutical care to patients as delineated by the Pharmacy Department.
• Manage systems for the storage, preparation and dispensing of medicinal agents using appropriate techniques and following the health systems policies; effectively supervising technical personnel who may be involved in these processes.
• Evaluate medication orders, accurately and safely, compounding medications in an acceptable dosage form, appropriately packaging and dispensing pre-manufactured dosage forms.
• Maintain knowledge pertaining to facility utilization of automated dispensing processes including the use of automated dispensing units, overwrap packaging, and bar coding within the facility.
• Provide education on rational medication therapy and medication procedures effectively to healthcare professionals, students, patients and the public.
• Retrieve, analyze, evaluate and interpret scientific literature in order to provide accurate, concise, applicable, and timely drug information response to healthcare professionals.
• Design implement, monitor, evaluate and intervene in patient pharmacotherapy to ensure effective, safe and economical patient care.
• Apply clinical pharmacokinetic date to design effective, safe and economical therapeutic medication regimens, collaborating with all individuals involved in the medication use process, when appropriate.
• Take responsibility for planning, organizing, networking, completing and improving work activities through effective management of time, tasks and available personnel.
• Participate in implementing goals, objectives, and policy and procedures of the Pharmacy Department and the facility.
• Effectively manage own professional practice including time and space, professional ethics, continued education, attendance punctuality, and customer focus.
• Perform other duties as assigned, including fulfilling additional pharmacy staffing hours when necessary to display competency

What qualifications you will need:

• Licensure: Licensed Pharmacist or be eligible for licensure in the Commonwealth of Virginia upon hire. Must be a licensed Pharmacist within 90 days of the beginning of the residency program.
• Effective communication, written and verbal skills are required. 
• Experience using computer applications including word processing, spreadsheet software and pharmacy information systems. 
• Organizational skills to handle multiple activities; self-initiative, independent.

Benefits

Reston Hospital Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Reston Hospital Center has provided quality healthcare services since 1986. We give patient's access to trained physicians and advanced technology. Our 230+ bed hospital is one of the region's leading acute care facilities in Reston and the growing Northern Virginia region. We offer a full range of medical services, including 24-hour emergency care. Our hospital specializes in maternal/child health, surgical services on both an inpatient and extensive outpatient basis. We offer urological services including lithotripsy. Our cancer care offers state-of-the-art radiation therapy, rehabilitation therapy programs and a wide array of diagnostic imaging capabilities. Reston Hospital Center is a certified Stroke Center, certified Total Joint Center and the only accredited Chest Pain Center in Northern Virginia. We are the only Hospital in Northern Virginia to receive Joint Commission designation as a Top Performer on Key Quality measures for multiple consecutive years.

At Reston Hospital Center, our care like family culture extends to our patients, our people and our community. We are committed to each other because when we join together, our patients are cared for in the safest and most compassionate way.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Pharmacy Resident opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.