Clinical Quality Pharmacist

Palmetto Infusion provides comprehensive ambulatory and home-based infusion services to both acute and chronically ill patients. Our centers care for people by providing patients and their families with a convenient, affordable, and safe place to receive infusion treatments. We strive for more than personal service – always delivering a warm and attentive health care experience that boosts patients’ state-of-mind, improves their health, and quality of life.

At Palmetto Infusion, we believe in creating an experience that goes beyond just a job. It's about being part of something bigger than yourself - a connected group of caretakers who work together to restore health and hope to our patients. We call it The Palmetto Experience, and we believe it's what sets us apart from other employers.

For our employees, The Palmetto Experience means we serve and support people in our purpose to restore health and hope, we build a culture of belonging and collaboration, we deliver on our promise to treat people with respect and empathy, and we strive to embrace change and search for new opportunities.

About the Role:

The Clinical Quality Pharmacist provides the licensed clinical layer that supports the Ambulatory Infusion
Center (AIC) Order Entry workflow across all states in which Palmetto Infusion Services operates. They
will perform remote medication order processing and prescription review — including order/prescription
clarification, receipt and documentation of verbal orders, prospective drug use review, therapeutic
interventions, and drug information support. This position will also work with and advance our formal
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) program which monitors, evaluates, and continuously improves
the quality, safety, and appropriateness of order processing in accordance with internal policy, the South
Carolina Pharmacy Practice Act, and the applicable laws of each state served. The role collaborates
closely with the Pharmacist-in-Charge, AIC clinical staff, and Patient Services to deliver safe, high-quality
infusion therapy and to sustain a defensible, inspection-ready standard of pharmacy practice.

Minimum Qualifications:

Experience/

Education:

• Prior experience in specialty pharmacy, ambulatory infusion, and/or home infusion practice; familiarity
  with prospective drug use review, verbal order intake, and continuous quality improvement in a pharmacy setting.
• Education:
  
  Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) required.
• Licensure:
  Active state pharmacist license required  be required to obtain and maintain non-resident or reciprocal pharmacist licensure in any additional state of operation, as required by each state's laws and Board of Pharmacy regulations

Essential Functions:

• Receives, reviews, interprets, and if needed, clarifies medication orders and prescriptions
  originating from prescribers, and documents all clarifications in accordance with internal policy
  and applicable state and federal pharmacy law.
• Performs prospective drug use review (DUR) on medication orders prior to administration, using
  the common electronic file to verify patient information, allergies, therapy appropriateness, dose,
  route, rate, and duplications.
• Enters and/or transfers medication-order data, receives verbal orders from prescribers, obtains
  substitution authorizations, and performs therapeutic interventions consistent with the authorized
  functions of licensed pharmacists.
• Serves as a drug information resource to the AIC clinical staff (nurses and providers), internal
  Palmetto Infusion staff, and outside referral sources.
• Receives and acts on urgent order clarifications, verbal orders, prospective DUR, and drug
  information requests during staffed hours.
• Helps with reporting, implementing, and continuously advancing the pharmacy's Continuous
  Quality Improvement (CQI) program: objectively and systematically monitors and evaluates the
  quality and appropriateness of order processing, pursues improvements to prevent and document
  medication errors.
• Identifies, documents, reviews, and addresses medication errors and near-misses arising from
  remote order processing; performs root-cause analysis, trends findings, and translates results into
  periodic process…