Pediatric Critical Care Pharmacist
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Job Location:
Portland, TX - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
23 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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 inpatients and outpatients whorange in age from neonates infants less than one year of age children and adolescents ages 10-18 adults ages19-65 and the elderly over age 65.
This position is to function at higher decision making and accountability levels regarding medication therapy proactively affecting medication use by making recommendations at the time prescribing decisions are being made or in some cases making independent decisions about medication therapy in cooperation with other ealthcare team members. Additional services provided include facilitationof medication reconciliation is charge counseling and medication delivery through coordination of care from admission to discharge. 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 flexible model where the coordination during transitions of care and medication use system for atients 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 problemsdemonstrating advanced knowledge and application of this knowledge to aspecific patient population.
- 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.
Interprets and evaluates physicians orders and prescriptions for accuracycompleteness and appropriateness. Documents activities of clinical decisionor medication distribution issues that are not in line with the standard of
practice require follow-up or continued monitoring/evaluation. Verify theaccuracy and appropriateness of medications prepared and dispensed from thecentral pharmacy.
- Other Duties as Assigned
Required Qualifications
- Licensure in the State of Oregon
- BS in Pharmacy or Pharm.D. PLUS Practice Residency/Equivalent Experience or Specialist Certification (BCPS BCOPS etc)
- Inpatient hospital pharmacy practice: Ability to meet the pharmaceutical care needs of the following patient care types: Acute care psychiatric rehabilitiaion skilled nursing long-term care obstetric oncology chemically dependent HIV home care hospice.
Preferred Qualifications
- PGY-2 Specialty Residency BLS/ACLS certification Vaccination certification Teaching Certificate
- Specialist Certifications (BCPS BCOPS etc) PALS
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 and practices and work flow. The pharmacist must deal with intense situations on a daily addition within 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
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- LTC Pharmacy
- Hospital Experience
- Pharmacy Software
- Continuous Improvement
- Go
- Infusion Experience
- Pharmacy Residency
- Training & Development
- Order Entry
- Epic
- Clinical Pharmacy Experience
- Compounding Medications
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