Clinical Pharmacist, Inpatient Pharmacy Eve

Position: Clinical Pharmacist, Inpatient Pharmacy, 40hr, Eve

Exemption Status: Exempt

Hiring Range: $96,220.80 - $

Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate's experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations
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Schedule Details: Holidays - One Major Summer Holiday, Holidays - One Major Winter Holiday, Monday through Friday, Weekends - Every Fourth Weekend

Scheduled

Hours:

2:30pm - 11pm

Shift: 2 - Evening Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours: 40

Cost Center: 10010 - 3800 Pharmacy

This position may have a signing bonus available. A member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

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Clinical Pharmacist Overview

The clinical pharmacist provides comprehensive medication management services that integrate clinical services, order management, patient/staff education and research. Clinical pharmacists are responsible for improving the patient's experience, safety, and achieving positive clinical and financial outcomes. This position is responsible to an immediate supervisor/manager.

Major Responsibilities

The following key performance areas (Clinical, Operations/Distribution, Financial, Safety and Regulatory, Research and Education) are performed by the clinical pharmacist:

Clinical Performance

• Provides medication management services in a collaborative manner that consist of reviewing patient medication history, educating patients on drug therapy, establishing desired outcomes, developing/ modifying therapeutic plans, determining alternatives for achieving outcomes, developing drug monitoring plans, monitoring patient outcomes, documenting medication-related issues in electronic health record, interpreting laboratory data, reviewing patient medication profiles, monitoring pharmacokinetics of drug therapy, monitoring for potential adverse drug-drug, drug-lab, drug-disease and drug-food interactions, maintaining and updating a patient profile with demographics (e.g. height and weight), diagnosis, allergies, and current medications, monitoring drug therapy to evaluate appropriateness of use, dose, dosage form, regimen, route, therapeutic duplication and drug interaction, providing drug information to health care professionals and to patients, documenting clinical interventions, counseling patients on discharge medications as appropriate, performing clinical review and verification of medication orders, performing medication order entry when needed, discussing medication order clarifications with the prescriber, documenting interventions, and communicating medication order changes as needed, and facilitating medication discharge planning and smooth transition to alternate sites of care and access to an ambulatory pharmacy.

Operations/Distribution

Performance

• Ensures the timely and accurate dispensing of medications from the pharmacy area.
• Ensures proper technique and accurate preparation of all pharmaceutical products, including oral, non-sterile and sterile compounding, chemotherapeutic, hazardous, and investigational agents.
• Responsible for the accurate filling and dispensing of medications from the pharmacy area.
• Cross-covers in a variety of practice areas within the pharmacy as requested by supervisor.
• Ensures regulatory compliance of controlled substance distribution and monitoring.
• Supervise work of pharmacy technicians.
• Provide feedback to maintain and optimize pharmacy technology.

Financial Performance

• Promotes the use of formulary drugs by converting non-formulary orders to formulary drugs when possible according to P&T protocol. Coordinates procurement of non-formulary drugs when necessary.
• Conducts targeted drug program and drug usage evaluations as needed and reports results to Department Managers/ Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.
• Identifies and acts upon cost avoidance in drug therapy by promoting cost-effective regimens, drugs, and by reducing waste.
• Facilitates cost saving programs such as IV to PO and therapeutic substitution.
• Manages medication inventory, expiring products, and recalls.

Safety and Regulatory Performance

• Detects, monitors, documents, and reports adverse drug reactions and medication errors.
• Utilizes drug use reports to identify adverse drug events.
• Participates in Joint Commission and other accreditation and regulatory activities such as National Patient Safety Goals and Department of Pharmacy Quality Improvement Plan.

Research and Education Performance

• Precepts Intermediate Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) rotation…