Pharmacist - Acute Care
Pharmacist - Acute Care
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Job Description
Department Overview
The purpose of this Pharmacist is to provide the services of a licensed pharmacist which includes the responsibility for the safe and proper distribution and use of medications in inpatients and outpatients whorange in age from neonates infants less than one year of age children and adolescents ages 1018 adults ages1965 and the elderly over age 65.
This position is to function at higher decision making and accountability levels regarding medication therapyproactively affecting medication use by making recommendations at the time prescribing decisions are beingmade or in some cases making independent decisions about medication therapy in cooperation with otherhealthcare team members. Additional services provided include facilitation of medication reconciliationdischarge counseling and medication delivery through coordination of care from admission to discharge. Thepharmacist must possess strong communication skills for patient education and work collaboratively with
inpatient and outpatient interdisciplinary teams including but not limited to providers nurses case workerspharmacists and technicians as well as the teaching and precepting component of students interns and/orresidents.
This is a flexible model where the coordination during transitions of care and medication use system forpatients are integrated with traditionally centralized functions such as order entry/verifications and willcontinue to evolve as part of integrated decentralized patient care practice.
Function/Duties of Position
- Identifies resolves and documents complex therapeutic problems demonstrating advanced knowledge and application of this knowledge to a specific patient population.
Interprets and evaluates physicians orders and prescriptions for accuracy completeness and appropriateness. Documents activities of clinical decision or medication distribution issues that are not in line with the standard of
practice require followup or continued monitoring/evaluation. Verify theaccuracy and appropriateness of medications prepared and dispensed from thecentral pharmacy.
- Responds accurately to requests for drug information from physicians nurses patients and patients families; independently reviews and interprets the literature and applies this information to specific patient care situations.
Monitors therapeutic response and adverse effects of medications to guidedrug therapy. Consults with provider when questions or problems areidentified and documents activies in the patient medical record. Appropriatelyreports all adverse drug reactions drug defects and medication errors
Assists in the reconciliation of medications education of patients regardingtheir home medication regimens and coordination of the discharge medicationplan with the interdisciplinary team. Documents activities in the patientmedical record.
- Other Duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
- A current Pharmacists license issued by the Oregon State Board of Pharmacy.
- BS in Pharmacy or Pharm.D.
- Inpatient hospital pharmacy practice: Ability to meet the pharmaceutical care needs of the following patient care types: Acute care psychiatric rehabilitiaion skilled nursing longterm care obstetric oncology chemically dependent HIV home care hospice.
Job Related KnowledgeSkills and Abilities(Competencies):
- Demonstrates the ability to: Enforce pharmaceutical care principles safely and accurately
- Make agerelated modification of drug therapy
- Make diseaserelated modification of drug therapy
- Evaluate medical literature Work independently without minimal direct supervision
- Handle multiple tasks and frequent interruptions
- Communicate effectively both formally and infomrally including presentations
- Project manage Work with a team professionally and collaboratively
- Set priorities to respond quickly to emergent situations/requests
- Work cooperatively with healthsystem and pharmacy staff
- Perform work accurately with attention to detail
- Exercise sound professional judgement
- Perform systematic problem solving
- Enforce practice guidelinesstandards and medication related policies
- Make critical decisions
- Perform key computuer related skills including use of the EMR common word processing spreadsheet medical literature and medicatioin databases
Preferred Qualifications
- PGY2 Specialty Residency BLS/ACLS certification Vaccination certification Teaching Certificate
- Outpatient pharmacy clerical rotation Transitions of Care Discharge Medication Education Surgical or Internal Medicine Services Pain Management and Medication Reconciliation.
- Specialist Certifications (BCPS BCOPS etc)
Additional Details
The pharmacist will experience competing demands from nurses physicians pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals as they attempt to influence clinical decisionmaking clinical policies and practices and work flow. The pharmacist must deal with intense situations on a daily basis. In additionwithin the healthcare setting there can be significant lack of control over the work pace with frequent interruptions (work is often dictated by external factors) that may lead to mental fatigue or stress.
All are welcome
Employment Type
Part-Time
