Clinical Pharmacist Specialist

2 months ago

Fargo, North Dakota, United States Veterans Health Administration Full time

VA Careers - Pharmacy:


Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-The Clinical Pharmacy Specialist (CPS) at VA Pacific Islands Health Care System (VAPIHCS) functions at the highest level of clinical practice and works under a scope of practice as approved by the Clinical Executive Board.

The CPS functions to initiate, modify, discontinue, and monitor medication therapy and acts as a consultant for medication therapy management services.


This includes, but is not limited to:

designing, implementing, assessing, monitoring and documenting therapeutic plans utilizing the most effective, least toxic and most economical medication treatments; helping achieve positive patient centric outcomes through direct and indirect interactions with patients, providers and interdisciplinary teams in assigned areas; performing physical assessments; and ordering laboratory and other tests to help determine efficacy and toxicity of medication therapy.

Practices as the CPS for the assigned area at the highest level of approved scope of practice.

The CPS oversees pharmacotherapy to ensure that national treatment guidelines are being followed in addition to adherence to national formulary and local policies.

Interfaces with providers, including physicians, PAs, ARNPs in the design and continued evaluation of the Veteran's treatment regimen to achieve optimization of rational and cost-effective drug therapy.

Serves as an authoritative information source on medications and their utilization in therapy.

Evaluates drug literature by analysis of experimental design and methodology, in order to compare and contrast therapeutic regimens and roles for new drugs.

Recognizes patient presentation of signs, symptoms, laboratory tests and diagnoses, recognizes and lists important medical problems, disease states, symptoms or abnormal laboratory values that may necessitate altering the therapeutic regimen or which may be induced by drug therapy.

Establishes and expands the patient data base through interpreting the drug history, medical history, physical examination and ongoing patient specific monitoring of therapy, with documentation in the formal patient medical record.

Designs and documents a therapeutic regimen or plan, based on patient-specific information that includes establishing a therapeutic endpoint and stop criteria, electing an appropriate drug and related therapy, and establishing an appropriate dosage regimen.

Monitors, assesses and documents therapeutic and adverse effects of drug therapy (including drug interactions) through selection and evaluation of physical and laboratory parameters.

Provides consultation on selection of appropriate therapeutic regimens as a follow-up of non-therapeutic drug concentrations obtained from ambulatory care and inpatients.

Works to develop, upgrade, and disseminate acceptable criteria for use of formulary and non-formulary medications and other high cost items directed at employing cost effectiveness without compromising the quality of patient care.

Work Schedule
: 7:30 am to 4:00 pm

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus):
Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance):
Not Authorized

EDRP Authorized:
Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive.
Contact , the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance.
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Pay:


Competitive salary and regular salary increases When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of existing pay, higher or unique qualifications, or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).


Paid Time Off:
37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.

Parental Leave:


After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.


Child Care Subsidy:


After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.

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Retirement:
Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance:
Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Telework
:
Available

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

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Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not Authorized

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nancial Disclosure Report:
Not required

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