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Role Description
- This role oversees the provision of safe and effective medication therapies through collaboration with the patient's care team.
- Reviews physician orders for drug therapy and monitors this therapy for drug choice, dosage, drug interactions, adverse drug reactions, and formulary adherence.
- Serves as a drug information resource to nurses, physicians, and other healthcare workers.
- Retrieves and evaluates relevant biomedical literature, formulates an appropriate response, and provides concise and timely responses to drug information requests.
- Uses effective patient education techniques to provide counseling to patients and caregivers, including information on medication therapy, adverse effects, compliance, appropriate use, handling, and medication administration.
- Provides accurate shift to shift communication regarding unresolved situations requiring future action.
- Collects information needed to design medication therapy regimens and determine the presence of medication-related problems with current therapies.
- Designs, recommends, monitors, and evaluates patient-specific pharmacotherapeutic regimens.
- Implements recommendations effectively and utilizes existing clinical intervention policies and procedures, documenting in the medical record using the appropriate format.
- Participates in the management of medical emergencies.
- Precepts pharmacy students and pharmacy residents.
- Prepares and dispenses medications in accordance with best practice, policies, and state and federal regulations.
- Manages medication therapies using clinical guidelines.
- Checks the accuracy of the work of pharmacy support team members or others in accordance with the organization's policies and procedures.
- Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in pharmacy or a Pharm D. from an accredited school of pharmacy required.
- Pharmacist license issued by the state in which the team member practices required.
- Previous hospital pharmacy experience is preferred.
- Highly effective verbal communication and interpersonal skills with patients, visitors, and other healthcare team members.
- Two years acute care hospital pharmacy experience/PGY-2 residency or previous hospital experience/PGY-2 Critical Care residency or previous Critical Care experience is preferred.
- A willingness to train and join a Virtual Pharmacy Services specialty team is preferred.
- Requirements
- Works primarily in the pharmacy.
- Delivers medications to nursing units.
- Requires considerable walking, standing, pushing a mobile cart of 50 pounds maximum, and lifting 25 pounds of material.
- May be required to frequently stretch, bend, squat, or kneel to perform job.
- Utilizes appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) to minimize exposure to hazardous agents.
- Takes necessary precautions to avoid inadvertent needle sticks, minor cuts, or bruises.
- Exposed to various conditions throughout the workday such as walking on hard surfaces, climbing stairs, and changes in temperature and humidity.
- Must be able to perform manipulative skills such as writing, typing, and data entry into the computer and automated dispensing machines.
- Must have use of both hands, be able to see clearly and read small type such as that on unit-dose medication packages and syringes.
- Must be able to speak and be understood by others to communicate effectively.
- Must be able to hear normal sounds with moderate background noises.
- Involves rotating shifts.
- Benefits
- Paid Time Off programs.
- Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability.
- Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses.
- Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave.
- Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs.
- Educational Assistance Program.
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