Emergency Health Pharmacy Meeting Minutes

Dr. Zimmerman- Emergency Medicine Pharmacist

"So what do you do there?":

• Be available to physicians and help them with clinical questions

• Located in the middle of the ER

• Other specialty pharmacists are located in other areas of the hospital

• Answer questions from people as they walk past, very accessible via phone, pager or secure chat.

Some responsibilities of Emergency Pharmacists:

• Consultations: provide consultations on high risk medicines such as blood thinners

• Rabies Immune Injections, Making sure patients get all remaining shots

• Work collaboratively with providers, nurses, other pharmacists

• Fast paced environment, very hands on, team environment

• Code Blue: when someone is getting CPR, Pharmacists monitor and advise during code blue and document everything that occur and sometimes, pharmacist give CPR

Some Advice:

• You don’t need to know what field of pharmacy you want to do your first year of pharm school!

• Walgreens technician- very helpful! Consider getting pharmacy tech experience

Walk through a typical day:

• Overnight shifts, mornings not as busy, not a predictable job

• Verifying orders

Feel free to contact Dr.Zimmerman with any questions!

Email: ezimmerman2@uwhealth.org

Club reminders:

• Freshman representative application due October 12th by midnight

• Mentorship opportunity with a UW Pharmacy School student, new volunteer opportunities and new workshop opportunities are available, check them out on our website under the “Volunteer”, “More>opportunities” and “More>mentorship” tabs

• Next general meeting, Wednesday October 21st, 6-7pm. We will be discussing community pharmacy with Dr.Vicki Sobczak