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ADENIKE (NIKKI) OKODUWA

SUMMARY

Enthusiastic, self-driven, and personable clinical pharmacist interested in providing regulatory and clinical staff services.

Competently collaborates with other healthcare staff with experience handling medication chart reviews to optimize medication therapy. Implements up-to-date pharmacotherapy and treatment guidelines with providers, oversees and assists IV-Compounding Pharmacy Technicians in preparation and compounding of sterile products. Effectively conducts Drug Utilization Reviews and assists in preparing Drug Review Criteria for Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee. Provides evidence-based medication education to patients, caregivers, medical and hospital staff for inpatient and outpatient areas.

EXPERIENCE

PGY-1 Pharmacy Resident / Western Arizona Regional Medical Center, AZ Residency end date – 06/30/21

• Monitors acutely ill patients, reviews patients’ profiles before rounds, participates in daily rounds with attending physicians and other healthcare team members, and provides drug information/ recommendations to the medical team.

• Partners with pharmacy and multi-disciplinary teams to proactively establish practices focused on safe medication use, quality care, and regulatory compliance.

• Performs comprehensive medication reviews, and updates patient profiles based on information gathered during the review,

• Reviews any Drug Therapy Problems to optimize patient’s drug therapy and minimize the potential for adverse drug reactions.

• Efficiently completes CMRs and assists Clinical team in meeting proficiency and quality goals.

• Utilizes patients’ formulary information to guide appropriate medication recommendations.

• Maintains current on emerging trends that will educate clinical team, physicians, and other prescribers.

• Champions process improvement initiatives by tracking & trending of data and implementing best practice/tools with knowledge of federal and state regulatory changes, facilitating policy & procedure reviews, alongside pharmacy leadership team to ensure compliance with the directives of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee per Formulary Management.

• Attends and participates in periodic meetings such as Supervisors’ Meeting, Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee, and sub-committees such as Formulary/Utilization, MERP Taskforce, Pharmacy Quality Improvement, Patient Safety Walk-Rounds, Critical Care Committee, and Regulatory Readiness.

• Works alongside hospital senior management team to implement services that improve practice, enhance project management and leadership skills, and participates in developing and implementing department and institutional policies, procedures, guidelines, competencies, and performance improvement strategies.

• Contributes to clinical and administrative activities, such as collecting, analyzing, and presenting data for monthly

Adverse Drug Events, Gap Analysis, Turnaround Time Studies, Drug Utilization Evaluations, Root Cause

Analysis, and Failure Mode and Effect Analysis.

• Develops skills in regulatory, accrediting, and patient safety organizations such as AHRQ, CBOP, CDPH, CHPSO, CMS, FDA, and others

• Utilizes time management, organizational, and management skills to fulfill both clinical and administrative practice requirements.

• Provides counseling (both oral and written) to patients and/or caregivers for outpatient prescriptions, targeted medication information (Drug Information), home medication screening and medication reconciliation.

• Actively reviews, verifies, or enter medication orders into medication management systems in an accurate and timely manner, and appropriately evaluates entries to the patient profile / provide intervention when needed to ensure patient safety.

• Effectively screens for and manages clinical alerts/conditions (i.e. allergies, interactions, therapeutic duplications, adverse drug reactions, and complete all associated incident documentation to ensure ongoing compliance with quality and regulatory requirements and standards.

• Responsible for IV to PO streamlining and conversion when clinically appropriate, and for Automatic Therapeutic Interchange for approved medications. Actively problem solve issues with medication orders and contact the prescriber to recommend appropriate alternative medication therapy as needed.

• Checks unit dose packages, medication boxes and crash carts, and charge medications to patients accurately.

• Prepares and compound total parenteral nutrition (TPN) solutions, and responsible for renal, kinetic, anticoagulant, and clinical dosing.

• Prepares and dispense sterile and non-sterile medications, in an accurate and timely manner, in compliance with departmental and organizational policies and procedures, annual department goals, and in accordance with all state and federal laws, statues and quality standard agencies.

Pharmacy Intern / Walgreens - Hampton, VA Oct 2018 – Mar 2020

• Assisted pharmacists in delivering patient care through counseling and other health services such as blood pressure, diabetes, and medication management.

• Responsibly used pharmacy systems to obtain patient and drug information and processed prescriptions.

• Accurately entered, typed, filled, labelled, and processed prescriptions, and ensured insurance/ billing has been applied as appropriate.

• Performed Medication Therapy Management (MTM) and comprehensive medical review (CMR) services in areas such as heart failure, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and other conditions. Drafted medication summaries for physicians' reference, identified specific therapy goals for patients, and provided drug information to healthcare providers and patients.

• Initiated compliance calls and assisted patients in recognizing barriers with adherence.

• Identified and prevented polypharmacy, and proffered solutions such as medication cost reduction, reducing pill burdens, simplifying medication regimens, counselling, and educating patients taking medications for chronic disease/s.

• Continuously assessed outcomes of medication therapies and offer modifications, as necessary.

• Provided information on vaccinations and administered vaccinations.

• Assisted patients with Over-the-Counter medication choices and supported with appropriate self-care.

• Engaged patients through appropriate greetings, helping with products and services, and resolving issues to ensure positive customer experiences, and developed stronger relationships.

• Assisted with inventory management activities, such as, ordering, unpacking, checking, and storing shipment of pharmaceuticals.

Treatment Coordinator / People Encouraging People, Inc - Baltimore, MD Aug 2014 – Aug 2016

• Effectively managed the daily operations, service, and resources of the clinic, developed, and implemented strategic business plans, annual operating budget in conjunction with routine operations, regional and medical director.

• Maintained the quality of services patients need to successfully treat their opioid use disorder.

• Supervised staff development, maintenance of licensure and accreditation, financial performance, profit and loss management, forecasting, business development and continuous performance improvement.

• Facilitated compliance with psychiatric/somatic medications to enhance remission and prevent relapse.

• Served as community outreach liaison, attended community events to educate and establish contacts within the community to become a needed resource, developed and implemented all clinic policies and procedures including public affairs and community relations.

• Supervised the delivery of treatment services, protocol amendments, and reports to the State and or Federal

Departments as required in full agreement with corporate and regional leadership.

• Managed and provided training and development opportunities for the outpatient clinic staff, setting direction and deploying resources, responsible for performance evaluations, pay reviews and hire/fire decisions.

• Facilitated compliance with all Federal and State Laws and Regulations, including the submission of corrective action plans to FDA, DEA and State ADP., and responsible for daily/weekly/monthly audits of patient records, medication inventory, etc. and all daily/weekly/monthly reporting.

• Ensured security of medications, samples, medical records, employee records and any other documentation deemed necessary by corporate leadership, the FDA, DEA and /or State ADP. And ensured rights and confidentiality of all patients are protected.

• Provided data on medication effectiveness, or adverse reactions for clinical research.

• Developed treatment plans targeted towards patients’ individual remission goals and assisted patients in maintaining the goals and identified barriers to integrating patients in remission into the community and developing individualized treatment plans that will help patients alleviate pending issues and referred appropriate resources.

• Attended weekly meetings with clinic staff, maintained contact with regional and medical directors, and keeping them up to date on issues, and completed daily and monthly documentations.

LICENSE, EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Licensed Pharmacist • State of Arizona

Western Arizona Regional Medical Center- Bullhead City, AZ 06/2020 – Present

PGY-1 Residency

Completed PGY-1 Rotations 06/2020 - Present

• Clinical Research: Longitudinal

• Internal Medicine: 1 month | Integrated Practice Rotation (Critical Care): 3 months

• Leadership Collaborative Rotation (Drug Information, Formulary Management, operations, Pharmaceutical

Outcomes, Clinical and Investigational Drug Services, Management and Administration: 1 month

• Cardiovascular Surgical Intensive Care: 1 month

• Ambulatory Care (hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, asthma, COPD, dementia, and coagulopathies):

Longitudinal || Opioid Stewardship and Addiction Medicine: 1 month

• Psychiatry: 1 month| Adult Hematologic Malignancies: 1 month| Infectious Disease: 1 month| Pharmacy

Informatics: Current rotation

Hampton University - Hampton, VA 05/2020

Doctor of Pharmacy: PharmD

University of Maryland University College 05/2016

B.S. Applied Sciences and Biotechnology

Community College of Baltimore County - Catonsville, MD 06/2014

Associate of Science: Applied Sciences

HONORS AND AWARDS

Rho Chi Academic Honors Society (School of Pharmacy, Hampton University)

Phi Theta Kappa Academic Honors Society (University of Maryland, University College)

SKILLS

||Therapeutic Drug Monitoring || ICH GCP|| eTMF||Time management | Communication | Computing Skills | Spreadsheets

(Excel; Google) | Microsoft Office Suite | Google Docs | Google Slides | PowerPoint || SAP|| RIMS||Argus|| Project and

Minitab||

||EPIC | Athenahealth|| Cerner|| Medhost | Milt | HMS GUI| PowerGrid

||Sterile and Non-Sterile Compounding | Pharmacy Automated Systems | Omnicell | Pyxis | | Yuyama (Unit Dose

Packaging) | M84B Pro Omnicell (Carousel) | Script Pro Pharmacy Automation | Aethon TUG Robot