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WakeMed Health & Hospitals
Raleigh, North Carolina

Decentralized ICU & Floor Pharmacist

PharmacistIncludes callIncludes weekendsFull-Time

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Job Description

We’re hiring a Decentralized ICU & Floor Pharmacist to support our intensive care and floor adult patients by providing safe, accurate, and timely pharmaceutical care. In this role, you’ll partner closely with physicians, nurses, and the care team to optimize medication therapy, enhance medication safety, and support positive patient outcomes across our cardiology services.

Work Schedule: Shift: Day/Evening, Every 4th weekend |Holiday requirement included and on-call as needed

  • What you’ll do
  • Participate in multidisciplinary rounds in adult ICU teams and internal medicine teaching teams
  • Review and verify medication orders to ensure accuracy, appropriateness, and safety for each patient.
  • Design and adjust therapeutic regimens and monitoring plans tailored to intensive care and floor patients.

Prepare and dispense medications through accurate compounding, packaging, and labeling in compliance with all regulations.

Serve as a trusted drug therapy resource by consulting with patients and care teams on dosing, interactions, side effects, and safe medication use.

Document clinical pharmacy activities and interventions clearly and accurately in the medical record.

Conduct medication reconciliation and resolve discrepancies at admission and discharge to ensure accurate, safe, and guideline directed therapy.

Provide discharge medication counseling and coordinate with outpatient providers and pharmacies to support continuity of care and reduce readmissions.

Who You Are

  • A licensed Pharmacist with strong interest in ICU and acute care practice
  • Knowledgeable in clinical pharmacotherapy and evidence-based medication management
  • Comfortable collaborating with interdisciplinary healthcare teams in a fast-paced environment
  • Detail-oriented with a strong commitment to patient safety and quality care
  • Effective communicator who values education and shared decision-making

Department Description

Serving the community since 1961, WakeMed Health & Hospitals is the leading provider of health services in Wake County. With a mission to improve the health and well-being of our community, we are committed to providing outstanding and compassionate care. For more information, visit wakemed.org.

EOE

About WakeMed Pharmacy

The WakeMed Pharmacy department provides decentralized clinical services to all inpatients and works collaboratively with physicians, advanced practice providers and nurses throughout the institution to provide care to patients with a diverse range of clinical problems.

WakeMed Health & Hospitals offers a blend of both structured teaching services with medical residents from WakeMed, the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and medical students from Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine, as well as multidisciplinary rounding services.

Services with traditional medical teaching rounds include internal medicine, medical ICU, general pediatrics, and pediatric ICU.

Other services with multidisciplinary rounds include cardiothoracic ICU, cardiovascular ICU, neonatal ICU, surgery/trauma ICU, neuro ICU, advanced heart failure, and antimicrobial stewardship.

WakeMed Health & Hospitals has strong relationships with the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy and Campbell University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and offers student rotations throughout the year. This affords pharmacists the opportunity to engage in teaching and precepting responsibilities on rotations throughout their year.

Licensure

Licensed Pharmacist Required

Education

Bachelor's Degree Pharmacy Required - Or Doctorate Pharmacy Required

Experience

No Experience Required

Key Responsibilities

The pharmacist will participate in multidisciplinary rounds to optimize medication therapy and ensure safe, accurate medication administration for ICU and floor patients. They are also responsible for medication reconciliation, clinical documentation, and providing patient counseling to support continuity of care.

Requirements

Candidates must be licensed pharmacists with a strong interest in ICU and acute care practice. A Bachelor's or Doctorate degree in Pharmacy is required, and the role is open to those with no prior experience.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)

Key Skills

Interdisciplinary CollaborationTherapeutic Regimen DesignEvidence-based Practice

Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 50 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 30% are remote, 52% have no call, 62% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for North Carolina is 94.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 59.2% of North Carolina clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Benefits & Perks22 jobs

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

median 2.8this job 1.5
Below most Pharmacy listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 10,244 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • On-site
  • Includes call
  • Includes weekends

Living in Raleigh

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$372k
Typical market rent
$1,577/mo
Residents’ average commute
23 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
98.2
State income tax
Up to 4.8%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Raleigh-Cary, NC metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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