Patient Care Pharmacist - Per Diem - JHIS King of Prussia

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** Job Details
** The Jefferson Home Infusion Patient Care Pharmacist (Clinical Pharmacist) provides high quality infusion therapy and clinical services to patients receiving care in their home. This includes an initial patient assessment, determining therapy appropriateness, developing an individualized plan of care, monitoring therapy/response, making recommendations and oversight of the preparation, distribution and administration of medications.
Educates internal and external customers including patients, caregivers, prescribers, nurses, technicians, other pharmacists and students.
** Job Description
**** Essential Functions
*** Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
* Promotes safe and rational infusion therapy for patients based on orders from a prescriber.
* Works collaboratively to assure patient and caregivers understand and become independent with their plan of care.  Adjusts the care plan based on patient response, interventions and prescriber orders.
* Typical infusion therapies include antimicrobial, TPN, hydration, pain management, chemotherapy, inotrope, immunotherapy, monoclonal antibody, corticosteroid, gastrointestinal agents, clotting factors, etc.
* Monitors drug therapy, assesses patient response, drug interactions, side effects, toxicity and interprets lab results.
* Enters home infusion orders and documentation, assures the patient file tells the story of the treatment course, problems, goals, interventions, response and outcome.
* Maintains relationships with medical, nursing, social and other services involved in the care of patients at home.  Advises prescribers, nurses and other staff regarding medication administration, monitoring of drug therapy and disease states.
* Contributes to multidisciplinary team committees, development of policies and drug administration guidelines, pharmacy student preceptorship and various other projects.
* Participates in the On Call pharmacist role.
* Performs other related duties as assigned by supervisory personnel.
** Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required):
*** Provides care that is appropriate to the specific chronological age, developmental age, social maturity and cultural background of the patients being treated or serviced.
* Demonstrates the ability to navigate appropriate and necessary software systems unique to the position and department
* Excellent verbal communication skills
* Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
* Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral or schedule form.
** Minimum

Education and Experience Requirements:

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* Education:

*** Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy required.  Doctor of Pharmacy preferred.
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* Experience:

*** Home infusion experience preferred but not required.
** Minimum Certifications, Registration or License Requirements:
*** Pharmacy License in the state of PA.
* Valid Driver’s License required.
** Work Shift
** Workday Day (United States of America)
** Worker Sub Type
** Regular
* * Employee Entity
** Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc.
** Primary Location Address
** 3500 Horizon Drive, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States of America Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients;

making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. , home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce,…