Clinical Pharmacy Specialist ​/ Heart and Vascular

7a-3:30p / Full-time/ 40 Hours

This position will provide full internal medicine clinical coverage for heart & vascular floor patients, M-F with a weekend and holiday rotation requirement. Post Graduate Year 1 and 2 Residency (or Fellowship or equivalent experience) in internal medicine with experience with the heart and vascular patient population is highly desired.

Belong. Connect. Thrive. At Emory Healthcare our team is leading the way in shaping the future of health care. We unite to improve lives through innovation, compassion, and unwavering commitment to achieving unparalleled excellence in patient care. Our pharmacy staff works side by side with our fellow health care providers creating an interdisciplinary team approach to patient care. The Pharmacy at Emory’s goal is to provide patient- and-family centered medication management to the patients we serve.

We’re defining a new standard of care for humankind.

Emory Healthcare is an academic medical center with a high acuity patient population. Our pharmacy staff works side by side with our fellow health care providers creating an interdisciplinary team approach to patient care. The Pharmacy at Emory’s goal is to provide patient- and-family centered medication management to the patients we serve and defining a new standard of care for humankind.

The clinical specialist, pharmacy I practices as a clinical expert in specialty practice area(s). In addition to direct patient care activities, this position is responsible for ensuring appropriate medication therapy and clinical outcomes for the institution related to specialty area.

• Practices as a clinical expert in specialty practice area. Develops and promotes advanced clinical practice based upon recent evidenced based practice. Practices under existing and establishes new collaborative practice agreements to enhance pharmaceutical care.
• Ensures institution-wide appropriate therapy and institutional outcomes in specialty area. Consistently provides patient-centered, interdisciplinary pharmaceutical care.
• Proactively reviews and processes orders accurately and efficiently.
• Prevents and/or resolves drug-related problems to ensure safety, efficacy, and cost-efficiency by consulting with the ordering prescriber and appropriately documents.
• Performs daily in-depth patient profile review to assess, monitor and recommend appropriate drug therapy as applicable. Consistently evaluates, intervenes, and documents clinical interventions beyond institutional protocols and guidelines.
• Supports recommendations with critical analysis of literature.
• Monitors drug therapy regimens and makes recommendations or modifications per protocol.
• Leads the development of system nomograms and other guidelines.
• Promotes the documentation of clinical activities and adverse drug events.
• Attends medical codes as applicable.
• Develops system policies and processes for proper dosing, storage, handling, dispensing, and/or administration of medications and compounded products.
• Actively participates in development of system clinical practice initiatives.
• Serves as a role model for complex clinical and ethical situations and resolves conflict constructively.
• Develops, uses and promotes effective patient education materials and techniques for drug therapy, adverse effects, compliance, appropriate use, handling and drug administration education. Participates in coordination of transitions of care as appropriate.
• Responsible for service completion and patient satisfaction.
• Engages in external professional activities to maintain clinical competency and knowledge of current trends and practices. Develops accredited continuing education activities every 2 years.
• Precepts pharmacy students and residents as available. Responsible for department training and competency assurance for specialty area. Develops and assists in training and education of pharmacy and other disciplines. Assists pharmacists seeking to advance their clinical skills.
• Answers drug information questions with in-depth knowledge of research designs, methodologies, and biostatistics. Actively participates in scholarly activities in specialty area;
  Submits publications or national…