Pain Management & Substance Abuse Pharmacist

Location: Kalifornsky

## Pain Management & Substance Abuse Pharmacist Apply:
Bethel:
Full time:
Posted 2 Days Ago:
JR100048

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The Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation is a Tribal health care organization, serving nearly 30,000 people living across rural, southwest Alaska in villages with populations from about 10 to more than 1,000. Bethel, the regional hub and location of the only hospital in the region, has a population of nearly 7,000. The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is home to thousands of lakes and two primary rivers—the Kuskokwim and Yukon.
We offer a broad range of employment opportunities and the chance to make a meaningful impact on the health of people in the region.
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* Position Summary:

** To assure appropriateness of drug therapy/delivery. This role will provide direct patient care to pain and suboxone patients under the direction of the Director of Pharmacy and the Pain Management and Suboxone Programs.
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* Position Responsibilities:

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Provides pharmaceutical care, drug information and other clinical pharmacy services to inpatient, ambulatory and field health patients and providers.
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Provide health promotion and disease prevention activities relating to drug use and preventive therapy.
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Provide new and refill prescription services – includes screening patients chart, computer entry, filling and labeling the medication, counseling of the patient and documentation of all these activities.
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Participates in field visits to the village clinics.
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Prepares chemotherapy admixtures – includes screening patients chart, aseptic preparation of the admixture, dispensing of the admixture, disposal of chemotherapy waste and documentation of these activities.
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Provides inpatient pharmacy services – monitor drug therapy and prepare and dispense unit of use medications.
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Prepare sterile products using aseptic technique.
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Provide “on-call” pharmacy services to provide information and respond to emergencies that occur outside of regular pharmacy hours.
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Participate in discharge planning for all inpatients.
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Work with controlled substances, includes completing paperwork and understanding federal controlled substances laws.
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Assists in the training and supervision of pharmacy student externs/interns.
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Provides and facilitates the use of investigational medications per approved treatment protocols.
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Participates in inventory control and the acquisition of pharmacy supplies.
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Participates in drug distribution to various internal and external clinics.
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Participates in the compounding of products, including using appropriate references, and documentation and labeling of compounds.
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Participates in counseling patients on medications, as well as devices (i.e. inhalers, aerochambers, auto-injectors, etc.)17.
Participates in all Continuous Quality Improvement Activities, including, but not limited to, Drug Utilization Review, Quality Control, Drug Utilization Evaluations, Adverse Drug Reaction monitoring, Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee activities, management of a YKHC Drug Formulary and the development and management of Clinical Guidelines and Protocols.
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Attends all mandatory education as directed by YKHC.
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Retrospective medication review.
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Communicate drug related problems to provider.
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Document interventions i.e. progress note and/or message center to provider(s).22.
Recommend comprehensive pain management consultation.
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Pharmacist performs comprehensive pain assessment and profile review. Review medical history, laboratory results, diagnostic scans, current orders.
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Follow up with patients on a regular basis until therapeutic goals are met.
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Daily review of all Pyxis and Scriptpro reports.
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Run and analyze reports from Pyxis Knowledge Portal. Report…