Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Emergency Department

Nemours is seeking a fulltime Pediatric Emergency Department (ED) Clinical Pharmacy Specialist to join our highly collaborative and missiondriven team at Nemours Childrens Hospital Wilmington DE.

NCHDE is a multispecialty freestanding pediatric hospital and the only ACSverified Pediatric Level I Trauma Center in the state of Delaware. Our Emergency Department has roughly 55000 visits annually and serves a broad catchment area across Delaware Pennsylvania New Jersey and Maryland offering exposure to a wide breadth of pediatric emergency and trauma care.

In 2023 our 44-bed ED expanded to include a 6bed Behavioral Health Unit staffed in close partnership with psychiatry to better meet the needs of pediatric patients requiring urgent psychiatric care. As a pharmacist on this team you will play a key role in shaping safe evidencebased medication use across highacuity and fastpaced clinical environments.

The Role

The Pediatric ED Clinical Pharmacy Specialist provides advanced comprehensive pharmaceutical care to children and adolescents presenting with a wide range of acute and complex conditions. This role is deeply embedded within the multidisciplinary care team working sidebyside with physicians advanced practice providers nurses and pharmacy colleagues.

You will serve as a subject matter expert and realtime resource for medication management in the emergency setting contributing directly to patient safety clinical decisionmaking and optimized therapeutic outcomes.

In addition to direct patient care this specialist leads and participates in policy development medication safety initiatives quality improvement efforts and education of pharmacy learners and healthcare professionals across disciplines.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Care & Emergency Response

• Review verify and interpret medication orders for clinical appropriateness therapeutic goals safety contraindications interactions and diseasespecific considerations.
• Participate actively in medical emergencies including code responses providing expert medication preparation dosing and recommendations in real time.
• Ensure continuity of pharmaceutical care across acute and ambulatory settings by:
  • Obtaining complete and accurate medication histories
  • Performing comprehensive medication reconciliation with proper EMR documentation
• Provide patient and familycentered medication counseling tailored to pediatric needs.

Clinical Standards Safety & Quality

• Advance standardized evidencebased care through development and maintenance of clinical guidelines treatment pathways and EMRbased decision support tools.
• Lead and collaborate on EDfocused medication safety initiatives medication use evaluations and quality improvement projects.
• Support accreditation and regulatory compliance through ongoing quality assurance and performance monitoring.
• Serve as a trusted drug information resource for providers nurses and other healthcare professionals.

Education & Leadership

• Precept pharmacy students and residents; contribute to departmental and institutional educational programming.
• Develop and deliver pharmacyrelated education and inservice training for multidisciplinary healthcare teams.
• Participate in or lead committees task forces and continuous improvement initiatives as assigned.
• Ensure pharmacy services align with established standards of care and are responsive to agespecific patient needs.

Qualifications

Required

• Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)
• PGY1 residency or minimum of five (5) years of pediatric hospital pharmacy experience
• Active pharmacist license (or eligibility) in Delaware New Jersey and Pennsylvania
• Hospital pharmacy experience required (pediatric experience preferred)
• Board certification obtained within 12 months of eligibility
• AHA certifications: BLS PALS ACLS

Preferred

• PGY2 residency training in pediatrics.
• Previous Emergency Department pharmacy experience
• Experience in a pediatric tertiary or trauma care environment

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