Rita Albert Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles Area

(LTC pharmacy that services inpatient residents in SNFs and Hospice patients)• Verifying orders, checking admissions and cycle medications, while managing the day work flow.• Dosing and compounding TPNs and Aminoglycosides, and scheduling the appropriate labs to follow up.• Checking for potentially harmful drug interactions and making appropriate decisions.• Conducting necessary clarifications, pharmacy recommendations and proper documentation to ensure patient safety.• Adhere to Board of pharmacy requirements for sterile compounding with accurate records keeping.• Resolving any discrepancies in narcotic e-kits documentation by collaborating with nurses for an accurate inventory.• Assisting nurses and facility staff members with any requests or complaints to ensure that a quality service is provided.

Greater Los Angeles Area

(Retail and Compounding pharmacy; provides sterile and non-sterile compounds for inpatients & outpatients combined with a retail setting) Part-time relief pharmacist covering: Compounding, Retail and MTM.• Dosing, pricing, checking and dispensing IV compounds.• Added to master formulation records and created logs for prescription formulas via computer.• Performed quality assurance processes to ensure patient safety.• Counseled patients regarding medication use as well as other healthcare questions.• Assist on pharmacy bench for the retail pharmacy when needed. • Customize medications by combining ingredients according to prescriptions.• Conversed with patients and health care providers for custom prescription orders.• Prepared formulas for custom medications following compounding guidelines.

Riverside

(Retail and Compounding pharmacy; provides sterile and non-sterile compounds for inpatients & outpatients combined with a retail setting)• Providing consultations regarding uses, side effects, storage requirements and precautions.• Filling prescriptions and preparing medications for patients’ use.• Compounding most types of non-sterile formulations.• Preparing clinic orders, labeling and managing delivery logs.• Handling telephone orders and transfers.

(Closed door LTC pharmacy that mostly services inpatient residents in Skilled Nursing Facilities) • Dosing and ordering labs for Antibiotics, Anticoagulation therapy management and TPNs. • Verifying and calculating orders and checking admissions.• Reviewing discharges and communicating with facilities’ staff.• Receiving telephone and faxed orders for facilities’ residents.• Recommending therapeutic alternatives per insurance formularies.• Processing prescriptions on pharmacy’s system. • Checking for potentially harmful drug interactions and making appropriate decisions.• Reviewing patient’s profile and laboratory results to ensure proper dosing and patient’s safety under direct supervision of a pharmacist.The pharmacy provides oral, topical, injectable medications, TPNs and IV therapy.