Home Infusion Pharmacy Pharmacist - Relief
Home Infusion Pharmacy Pharmacist - Relief
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Job Description
Department Overview
The purpose of this position is to provide the services of a licensed pharmacist which includes theresponsibility for the safe and proper distribution and use of medications in outpatient settings who range inage from infants children adolescents adults and elderly.
This position is to function at higher decision making and accountability levels regarding medication therapy proactiveaffecting medication use by making recommendations and making independent decisions about home infusion medication therapy in cooperation with other healthcare team members. Additional services provided to home infusion patients include facilitationof medication delivery of medications through coordination of care with all health care team members. The pharmacist 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 workers pharmacists and technicians as well as the
teaching and precepting component of students interns and/or residents.
This is a Relief-STAFF position. The purpose ofFlex Staff positions is (1) to provide relief for absences for regular and Probationary Period employees (2) toprovide staff for short-term project and (3) to supplement existing staffing levels.
Function/Duties of Position
Identifies resolves and documents complex therapeutic problemsdemonstrating advanced knowledge and application of this knowledge to ahome infusion patient population.
- Monitors therapeutic response and adverse effects of medications to guide home infusion drug therapy. Consults with provider when questions or problems are identified. Appropriately reports all adverse drug reactions drug defects and medication errors.
Responds accurately to requests for drug information from physicians nursespatients and patients families; independently reviews and interprets theliterature and applies this information to specific patient care situations.
Interprets and evaluates physicians orders and prescriptions for accuracycompleteness and appropriateness. Verify the accuracy and appropriatenessof medications prepared and dispensed from the home infusion pharmacy.Supervise the activities and assume responsibility for all duties beingperformed by pharmacy technicians in your work areas.
- Other Duties as applied
Required Qualifications
- A current Pharmacists license issued by the Oregon State Board of Pharmacy
- BS in Pharmacy or Pharm.D. PLUS Practice Residency or 2 years of working at an infusion pharmacy location.
- Ambulatory or outpatient infusion pharmacy practice
Job Related KnowledgeSkills and Abilities(Competencies):
- Enforce pharmaceutical care principles safely and accurately
- Make age-related modification of drug therapy
- Make disease-related modification of drug therapy
- Evaluate medical literature
- Work independently without minimal direct supervision
- Work cooperatively with health-system and pharmacy staff
- Communicate effectively and professionally (orally and in writing)
- 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
- PGY-2 Specialty Residency BLS/ACLS/PALS certification Vaccination certification
- 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 decision-making clinical policies andpractices 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 frequentinterruptions (work is often dictated by external factors) that may lead to mental fatigue or stress. Thepharmacist must also be available to be on call weekdays and weekends.
All are welcome
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