Inpatient Pharmacist

Your future role at a glance

Location: Milwaukee, WI

Facility: Columbia Saint Mary's

Department: Inpatient Pharmacy

Schedule: PRN | As needed

How you’ll make an impact in this role

- Clinical Vignette & Order Management: Review, validate, and optimize medication orders for clinical appropriateness. You will proactively screen for drug interactions, therapeutic duplications, and contraindications, partnering directly with prescribers to resolve complexities and meticulously document clinical interventions.
- Advanced Compounding & Precision Dispensing: Oversee and accurately compound specialized sterile and non-sterile medications—including high-stakes chemotherapy and Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)—strictly adhering to regulatory standards to ensure flawless dispensing, labeling, and inventory control.
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration & Safe Transitions: Serve as the pharmacy voice during patient rounds and clinical committees. You will design tailored, patient-specific medication regimens and lead the medication reconciliation process during admissions and discharges to eliminate errors and secure seamless transitions of care.
- Patient Consultation & Complex Care Advocacy: Conduct focused, high-touch consultations for patients on complex or high-risk regimens (such as anticoagulants or insulin therapies), empowering them with clear education on administration, side effects, and adherence to optimize their therapeutic outcomes.
- Team Leadership & Operational Mentorship: Supervise and elevate our pharmacy technicians, ensuring rigorous quality control and unwavering regulatory compliance. You will also serve as a mentor to pharmacy students and residents while managing workflows across central, satellite, or specialty pharmacy services.

What minimum requirements you’ll need

Licensure / Certification / Registration:

- Pharmacist credentialed from the Wisconsin Pharmacy Examining Board obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date required.

Education:

- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Pharmacy required.

Benefits that help you thrive

Benefits that help you thrive

- Retirement: 403(b) plan

- Well-being support: Employee Assistance Program , counseling and peer support, spiritual care and stress management resources

*Benefit options and eligibility vary by position, scheduled hours and location. Benefits are subject to change at any time. Your recruiter will provide the most up-to-date details during the hiring process.

Life at Ascension: Where purpose meets opportunity

Ascension Wisconsin has been providing rewarding careers to healthcare professionals since 1848. Operating a network of hospitals, clinics and sites of care from Racine to Appleton, you will find opportunities that allow you to create a career path you'll love, all while delivering innovative care to the communities we serve.

Ascension is a leading non-profit, faith-based national health system made up of thousands of associates delivering compassionate, personalized care across hospitals, clinics and senior living communities.

Our Mission, Vision and Values encompass everything we do at Ascension. Every associate is empowered to give back, volunteer and make a positive impact in their community. Ascension careers are more than jobs; they are opportunities to enhance your life and the lives of the people around you. At Ascension, you are part of a bigger story of care.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Ascension will provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, genetic information, carrier status or any other legally protected status or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

For further information, view the EEO Know Your Rights (English) poster or EEO Know Your Rights (Spanish) poster.

As a military friendly organization, Ascension promotes career flexibility and offers many benefits to help support the well-being of our military families, spouses, veterans and reservists. Our associates are empowered to apply their military experience and unique perspective to their civilian career with Ascension.

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