Pharmacy services
The pharmacy departments at both Mercy Hospital campuses work together to achieve optimal medication use and patient outcomes in a collaborative, patient focused environment. We are responsible for storing, preparing, distributing and dispensing of medications 24 hours a day, every day.
Pharmacists provide optimal patient medication therapy through optimizing pertinent drug therapy, establishing medication protocols and dispensing medication. Our pharmacists are decentralized, working on the patient care units and operating room satellites, facilitating interactions with physicians, nurses and patients.
Pharmacy technicians are centralized in the main pharmacies and operating room satellites to handle distribution activities to patient care areas and drug preparation allowing the pharmacist to spend more time caring for our patients.
Pharmacy opportunities on both campuses
At both locations, pharmacists participate in:
- ICU rounding
- Anticoagulation consults
- Vancomycin and aminoglycoside consults
- Antibiotic stewardship programs
- Emergency department culture callback services
- Chemotherapy preparation for inpatients
- Remote order verification
- Medication reconciliation
- ACLS training with code response
- Clinical practice with several pharmacist driven automatic dosage adjustments, interchanges and therapy modifications per policy
- Coordinating Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Nursing-Pharmacy and Medication Safety Steering Committees
- Interdisciplinary committee involvement including EMR work groups, clinical and quality improvement initiatives such as Stroke Core Measures, sepsis, fall prevention and Code Committee
- Conducting medication usage evaluations (MUEs) and medication safety and performance improvement initiatives
Unique pharmacy opportunities at each campus
Mercy Hospital, Coon Rapids
- Intensivist service interdisciplinary patient care rounds
- Home infusion services
- Post-cardiac surgery glycemic control
- Outpatient infusion center
- AHCI infusion center
Mercy Hospital – Unity campus, Fridley
- Mental health interdisciplinary rounds
- Mental Health patient education
- Inpatient substance abuse patient education
- Opioid treatment program
- TPN compounding