Clinical Pharmacist-Antimicrobial and Diagnostic Stewardship (ADSP), Full-time Days

The Antimicrobial and Diagnostic Stewardship clinical pharmacist is focused on ensuring the optimal use of antimicrobials throughout Northwestern Medicine. This clinician will help build upon a wellestablished ADSP that aims to mitigate unnecessary and inappropriate antimicrobial prescribing via stewardship outreach and collaboration throughout our hospital as well as the optimal deployment and utilization of diagnostic tests related to antimicrobials. Shared duties and responsibilities will be to ensure compliance with accreditation and regulatory standards issued by The Joint Commission (TJC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) guided by components of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs. Other tasks include but are not limited to the development and implementation of stewardship guidelines staff education antimicrobial use pathways formulary restrictions hospital antibiograms and the NM ADSP website (). Additional responsibilities include supporting the infectious diseases consultation services and coordinating with stewardship activities within the Northwestern Medicine System.

Responsibilities:

• Contributes to the following duties:
  • Maintain documentation of TJC/CMS performance measures to ensure compliance.
  • Identify and implement:
    1. Education strategies to improve antimicrobial use across the hospital promote ADSP initiatives and mission with valued stakeholders.
    2. Priority interventions (e.g. prospective audit and feedback preauthorization hospitalspecific treatment recommendations).
    3. Tracking of antimicrobial use for monitoring and benchmarking (e.g. impact of interventions prescribing habits antimicrobial resistance patterns).
    4. Reporting antimicrobial use and resistance patterns (e.g. EDW NHSN).
    5. Organizationapproved policies and procedures (e.g. annual antibiograms treatment and prevention pathways influenza/COVID19 action planning oversight of NM ASP Website).
    6. Optimal diagnostic testing to facilitate rapid optimization of antimicrobial therapy improve patient outcomes and shorten length of stay.
• Supports existing goals and projects while seeking new opportunities to improve the ADSP.
• Coordinates with essential hospital departments and Northwestern Medicine System partners to sustain expansion and awareness of the ADSP (e.g. clinicians infection control microbiology nursing department/program heads quality improvement & patient safety information technology).
• Participates in the System Pharmacy and Therapeutics ADSP Subcommittee.
• Precepts clinical trainees (ID PGY2 pharmacy resident PGY1 pharmacy residents ID fellows pharmacy students medical residents).
• Rounds with ID consult service and evaluates patient pharmacotherapy for appropriateness of drug selection dosage dosage form route and duration considering individual patient characteristics and clinical status.
• Triages nonformulary requests for antimicrobial therapies and manage the antimicrobial drug formulary.
• Reports adverse drug events (ADEs) in Northwestern Memorials confidential reporting system and collaborates with departmental and medication safety leadership to ensure continuous improvements in antimicrobial medication safety.
• Leads and participates in collaborative research projects.

Qualifications :

Required:

• Current license to practice pharmacy in the State of Illinois
• Bachelors Degree in Pharmacy or a Doctor of Pharmacy Degree

Preferred:

• Completion of an ASHPaccredited PGY1 pharmacy residency program or at least 3 years of pharmacy practice experience with an Antimicrobial Stewardship/Infectious Diseases focus.            OR
• Completion of an ASHPaccredited PGY2 pharmacy residency in Infectious Disease and/or Infectious Diseasefocused fellowship AND
• Currently holds at least one of the following: Board Certification in Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy OR Board Certification in Pharmacotherapy with AddedQualification in Infectious Diseases

Additional Information :

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