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Pharmacist Inpatient

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Job Description

  • Job Title: Pharmacist Inpatient
  • Location: Virginia (Chesapeake)
  • Contract Type: Traveler
  • Start Date: 11/09/2026
  • Pay Range: Competitive

Ready for your next big move? Start here. Chesapeake, Virginia, has a strong healthcare presence within the Hampton Roads region, offering opportunities to work in diverse healthcare systems while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. The city also provides a high quality of life with a lower cost of living than many metro areas, access to coastal recreation, and a family‑friendly community that supports both professional growth and work–life balance.

Role Overview

This role involves medication management and clinical support for inpatient patients by verifying orders, monitoring therapy outcomes, and ensuring safe, evidence‑based medication use. They collaborate closely with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to optimize treatment plans and prevent medication errors throughout the patient’s facility stay.

Requirements

  • Flu Vaccine Required - Medical/Religious Exemptions and Declinations Allowed
  • Active Virginia Pharmacist license in hand at the time of submission
  • Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy Required.
  • PharmD, RPh credentials required
  • EPIC Charting Experience Required
  • Minimum of 1 year of recent inpatient pharmacy experience
  • Skills/Experience Required: IV admixture/IV pharmacy experience, Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA), Antibiotic management, Drug interaction review,
  • Medication order entry, Medication order verification
  • Skills/Experience Preferred: Chemotherapy experience, Anticoagulation management, Pharmacokinetic dosing, Renal dosing
  • Travel Experience Preferred

Schedule: Shift: 5x8's Rotating schedule, weekdays, some weekends (every 3rd weekend). If working overnights, 7 nights on, 7 nights off.

Shifts Times

Overnight shifts: 1930 – 0730, 2030 – 0730

Key Responsibilities

The pharmacist will perform medication management and clinical support by verifying orders and monitoring therapy outcomes for inpatient patients. They will collaborate with physicians and nurses to optimize treatment plans and prevent medication errors.

Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 50 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 16% are remote, 60% have no call, 48% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Virginia is 101.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.1% of Virginia clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

What does the Pharmacy market look like in Virginia?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Cost of livingVirginia index 101.1US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Pharmacy listings in Virginia288 active10,156 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 16% remote · 60% no call · 48% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedVirginia Pharmacist listings: 15% state a sign-on bonus · 17% offer loan repayment297 active listings, Nov 2026
New Pharmacy listings3,666 in the last 30 days3,150 the 30 days before (+16%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Pharmacy pay trend+3.3% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Top contract/1099 Pharmacist Jobs

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Salary Distribution

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

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401k / retirement match
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Sign-on bonus
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Relocation assistance
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Loan repayment
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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 1.5
Better work-life than 10% of Pharmacy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 9,956 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes weekends

Living in Chesapeake

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$349k
Typical market rent
$2,063/mo
Residents’ average commute
26 min
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.