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Bev Wilt, NJSHP State Treasurer |
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 Working twenty-six years at the same hospital and still going strong! How’s that as a testament to loving the pharmacy
profession. Beverly Wilt, Kennedy
Hospital Manager of Pharmacy and NJSHP State Treasurer, credits her steady career path to her ability to continue
to grow in her position. She’s been a first hand witness to the greater evolving
role pharmacy continues to play in overall patient care. She’s described the role of pharmacy in the past as limited to the routine and mechanical filling of drugs. But today, it now involves so much more interaction
with patients and hospital staff.At Kennedy, Bev was hugely involved in a major patient safety project. She and her team implemented a code cart exchange across all three hospitals in her system. She devised the standard code carts, same drawer, same contents, which eventually allowed staff to run codes. All medications and equipment were identical across the system. Bev was also involved with implementing drug boxes for anesthesia. This system provided double locked anesthesia drug boxes with pre-determined medications that the doctors and nurses could carry with them. This system required security and ease of documentation for the involved users. Part of Bev’s regular responsibilities is daily patient rounding with the critical care team. This is one of the aspects of her job she enjoys most. She gets involved first hand on clinical issues and loves the respect from the physicians and nurses as she gets to present her recommendations. Bev has seen first hand, at least at her institution, the ever-growing role pharmacists can play in overall clinical issues. Because of her Kennedy experience, she is highly encouraged that pharmacists will become more active and valued in the entire clinical process. Bev’s humble beginnings in developing a career in pharmacy began as a child when her aunt who was a nurse often took Bev to the hospital for visits. |
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She credits her preceptor Aaron Silnutzer as her biggest inspiration. Mr. Silnutzer’s progressive vision of pharmacy in the 1970’s represented today’s ever increasing role for pharmacists. As a member of the New Jersey Board of Pharmacy, he was a leader in the patient profile system and was majorly involved in making these records
a mandate. Bev worked her way through Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
at Silnutzer’s Garden State Pharmacy. Pharmacy has given Bev much satisfaction and she has been active in giving back and helping others to benefit with her knowledge and expertise. For a period of three years, Bev was an Adjunct Professor in Pharmacology at Gloucester College in the Nursing Department. Bev was excited about this post because she felt that patients would benefit more if nurses had a greater understanding about medications. She has devoted much of her tim e too to NJSHP. She was the Southern Chapter’s Treasurer for six years and then moved on to a greater role as the State Chapter Treasurer for the last four years. Bev comments, “NJSHP has been a wonderful networking experience – I am able to see how others have handled situations that are new to me.” She gives special advice to get involved with pharmacy as much as possible to really affect a positive change. She has seen pharmacy evolve slowly but surely and credits the tireless work and aspirations, particularly from so many NJSHP leaders. She also humbly comments that she can only aspire to have the same vision as some of her NJSHP board members and counterparts. Bev enjoys relaxing with her husband of 13 years with whom she shares a unique wedding anniversary, Halloween. Both she and her husband travel to the Caribbean twice a year to sail and snorkel. They lavish a lot of their attention on their three dogs, Buddy, Freeway and Max. And if you can’t find her at her Turnersville, NJ home, she is probably taking a quiet respite from her all of her duties at Kennedy Health System at her beach house on Long Beach Island. This is her place of retirement for the future, - a future that is still full, far and way down the road. |
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