Clinical Pharmacist II - Pharmacy

Clinical Pharmacist II - Pharmacy at Christus Health summary:
The Clinical Pharmacist II oversees medication dispensing, monitors pharmacotherapy, and ensures safe, cost-effective drug use within a hospital setting. This role includes clinical consultation, supervision of pharmacy staff, and participation in quality improvement and stewardship programs. The position requires a pharmacy degree, licensure, and significant hospital experience or residency completion.
Description

Summary:

All pharmacists fill orders for drugs, monitor patient drug therapies and provide drug information. Pharmacists provide pharmacy services with compassion, excellence and efficiency. In addition, level II pharmacists participate in management of patient pharmacotherapy and quality medication management within assigned service lines.
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital - Westover Hills (CSRH-WH) is a 150-bed hospital serving the fastest growing area of San Antonio. Specialized care includes orthopedic and surgical services, ICU, women’s services, a newborn nursery, comprehensive cardiovascular care from diagnostics to open heart surgery, vascular lab, sleep center, emergency services, the CHRISTUS Weight Loss Institute, wound care, rehabilitation, and more. The campus also boasts an Outpatient Imaging Center and three medical plazas, one of which houses our CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Program and CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Family Health Center.
Responsibilities:

• Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS

Competencies:

Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
Operational Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepares and dispenses drug orders per physician request according to established policies, procedures and protocols.

• Interprets drug orders (verbal and written) and transcribes/verifies into computerized patient medication record accurately. Maintains, accurate, complete patient drug record.

• Compounds and dispenses pharmaceuticals including non-sterile and sterile products, chemotherapy and parenteral nutrition products accurately.

• Issues controlled substances to patient care areas and maintains records as required by law and institutional policies.

• Provides services efficiently and in a timely fashion.

• Supervises and directs pharmacy support personnel. Verifies the daily activities of pharmacy technicians

• Maintains competency required for current job title/position

• Maintains current pharmacist license. Ensures applicable CE records and licensure are maintained in department files. Attends staff meetings.

• Completes all competency/skills assessment requirements.

• Provides analysis of medication use processes and contributes at least one related project per year.

• Ambulatory care Pharmacist

• Provides ambulatory pharmaceutical care services utilizing approved protocols and/or collaborative agreement with other providers, including managing patient drug therapy, anticoagulation management, providing patient education, and preparing and/or overseeing the preparation and dispensing of medications. Performs duties in the clinical areas assigned such as but not limited to: anticoagulation clinics, intensive medical home, transition of care, Discharge Medication reconciliation, etc.
Clinical Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures safe, appropriate, cost effective drug therapies for patients according to established policies, procedures, and protocols.

• Monitors drug therapy regimens for contraindications, drug-drug interactions, drug-food interactions, allergies and appropriateness of drug and dose.

• Assists with pharmacokinetics consult service and renal drug dosing per hospital protocol.

• Reads, extracts and interprets information in patient medical records accurately.

• Detects and reports suspected adverse drug reactions accurately and in a timely manner.

• Sustains the hospital drug formulary, minimizing non-formulary procurements, utilizing therapeutic substitution protocols and promoting rational drug therapy selection.

• Provides clinical consultation and clarification to practitioners as appropriate.

• Provides accurate, adequate and timely drug information to the hospital’s professional staff.

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