Clinical Pharmacy Specialist

Position: Clinical Pharmacy Specialist- Full Time- Day
* Description
* Summary:

The primary functions of the Clinical Pharmacy Specialist are to develop and provide pharmaceutical care to all patients, including monitoring drug therapy, provision of clinical and drug information, participating in patient rounds in designated areas, and maintaining and developing clinical protocols.
Responsibilities:

1. Develops and leads clinical programming efforts in area of specialty (critical care clinical role, decentralized pharmacy clinical role, antibiotic stewardship, central pharmacy operation activities, oncology clinical services). Criteria A: develops program plan, criteria, and objectives, leads clinical programming efforts in area of specialty (above);
Criteria B: chairs/attends various committees to ensure work is implemented Criteria C: develop action plans and monitor work.
2. Interprets, generates, and disseminates knowledge in pharmacotherapy to health professionals. Criteria A:
Retrieves & evaluates biomedical literature using currently accepted principles of drug literature evaluation and evidence-based medicine. Interprets, generates, and disseminates knowledge in pharmacotherapy to health professionals;
Criteria B:
Participates in interdisciplinary patient care rounds and acts as the clinical and drug information resource to the hospital staff. Interprets, generates, and disseminates knowledge in pharmacotherapy to health professionals;
Criteria C:
Acts as a clinical pharmacy resource to disseminate pharmacotherapeutic knowledge to patients, students, other health professionals.
3. Designs, recommends, implements, monitors, and modifies system-specific policies and procedures involving internal medicine patients in collaboration with other professionals/administrators to optimize health care;
Criteria A:
Provides expertise to and/or serves on hospital-related committees such as the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and/or other hospital committees. Designs, recommends, implements, monitors, and modifies system-specific policies and procedures involving internal medicine patients in collaboration with other professionals/administrators to optimize health care;
Criteria B:
Develops medication related policies and procedures designed to optimize safe and effective medication use in internal medicine patients. Designs, recommends, implements, monitors, and modifies system-specific policies and procedures involving internal medicine patients in collaboration with other professionals/administrators to optimize health care;
Criteria C:
Assists in development of clinical standards, clinical criteria and proper use of protocols as required. Designs, recommends, implements, monitors, and modifies system-specific policies and procedures involving internal medicine patients in collaboration with other professionals/administrators to optimize health care;
Criteria D:
Participates in initiatives designed to meet and maintain The Joint Commission standards, ensures safe medication use processes and utilizes various data sources to further develop clinical programs.
4. Maintains professional knowledge and competence;
Criteria A:
Maintains current drug knowledge and keeps current with trends in pharmacy practice. Maintains professional knowledge and competence;
Criteria B:
Completes greater than or equal to 20 continuing education credits annually, 10 of which must be contact hours.
5. Project Management;
Criteria A:
Analyzes scope and extent of project;
Criteria B:
Identifies tasks and timelines associated with project completion;
Criteria C:
Reports obstacles to project progress to supervisor;
Criteria D:
Completes assignments in reasonable time frames.
6. Monitors drug therapy in hospital patients;
Criteria A:
Collects and interprets data to design, recommend, implement, monitor, and modify patient-specific pharmacotherapy in collaboration with other health care professionals to optimize drug therapy Monitors drug therapy in hospital patients;
Criteria B:
Provides medication teaching to patients upon request.
7. Demonstrates current knowledge, ability to work and comply with all pharmacy regulations, specifically USP 797 {standards for preparing compounded…