Elements and Performance Criteria
- Maintain close contact with residential care providers.
- Identify and respond to residential provider service requirements.
- Maintain services to residential care facilities.
- Receive pharmacy notifications when residents are admitted or re-admitted to the care facility.
- Negotiate and coordinate arrangements for receiving and filling regular residential facility orders.
- Follow pharmacy procedures to assist pharmacist to regularly review patients’ medicines and ensure reconciliation with each patients’ medication chart.
- Follow pharmacy procedures for supply of stock medicines to residential care facilities and to maintain a stock control system.
- Assist pharmacist to monitor adverse drug reactions (ADR), adverse drug events (ADE) and therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) where requested.
- Coordinate delivery schedule, including emergency deliveries and persons authorised to receive the delivery.
- Negotiate a system to notify the pharmacy of all changes in individual patient medication regimens in a timely manner.
- Liaise with the director of nursing in the residential care facility or other nominated person to identify information and education needs.
- Perform relevant administrative tasks.
- Maintain an accurate, complete and comprehensive record of medicines for each resident.
- Maintain and follow the pharmacy system for recording and reportingmedication-related incidents.
- Ensure pharmacy maintains a current contract with appropriate references for each facility serviced.
- Follow pharmacy timelines and procedures to input data, raise and forward invoices, and reconcile payments received.