Halifax Health

Pharmacist

• Verify chemotherapy regimens for ordering accuracy, indication, dosing, sequencing, diluents, stability, and administration parameters
• Assess and manage treatment toxicities, implement dose adjustments, and recommend monitoring
• Provide evidence-based recommendations for oncology therapies and clinical trial regimens
• Perform comprehensive medication management, medication reconciliation, interaction evaluation, and deprescribing when appropriate
• Oversee or perform aseptic compounding of hazardous and non-hazardous sterile preparations
• Ensure proper donning, engineering controls, closed-system transfer devices, beyond-use dating, chain-of-custody, labeling, and barcode verification
• Lead or support medication-use evaluations, incident reviews, corrective actions, protocols, order sets, and pathways
• Ensure regulatory readiness and maintain documentation and audits
• Track and report clinical interventions, outcomes, cost avoidance, and safety metrics
• Practice under collaborative practice agreements to initiate or adjust therapies, order labs, and manage supportive care
• Coordinate care transitions across infusion, inpatient, specialty pharmacy, home infusion, and community providers
• Support clinical trials and manage investigational products
• Evaluate new drugs and indications for formulary review and implementation
• Precept and mentor oncology pharmacy technicians
• Provide medication and safety education to nursing, providers, and ancillary staff
• Contribute to departmental policies, strategic initiatives, and interprofessional workgroups
• Build, validate, and maintain EHR chemotherapy plans, order sets, and clinical decision support
• Utilize BCMA and smart pump libraries and escalate issues
• Communicate with prescribers, nurses, and infusion teams to resolve order issues
• Report adverse drug events, near misses, and pharmacovigilance data
• Prioritize STAT and time-sensitive chemotherapy and supportive care orders
• Manage hazardous drug inventory, storage, and waste; coordinate shortage mitigation
• Assist with billing accuracy, NDC mapping, waste documentation, and HCPCS coding support
• Perform order verification and IV room pharmacist duties at Central Pharmacy, plus other assigned duties

Oncology Pharmacist