CLINICAL PHARMACIST SPECIALIST-ONCOLOGY
2 weeks ago
**Responsibilities:**
+ Serves as a patient advocate for all medication-related issues.
+ Promotes safe, effective, and fiscally responsible use of medications.
+ Collaborates with patients, nurses, and prescribers in unit-based, patient-centered activities.
+ Proactively seeks to optimize patient outcomes through evidence-based, patient-specific pharmacotherapy. Considers all possibilities
+ Reviews and monitors medication orders for accuracy and appropriateness. Intervenes with the prescriber as necessary. Documents all interventions.
+ Practices pharmacy in accordance with approved policies and regulatory requirements.
+ Completes required documentation, records, and supplemental paperwork in accordance with departmental policy.
+ Assures that investigational medications are dispensed and recorded in compliance with individual protocols.
+ Ensures that controlled substances are dispensed and that departmental records are maintained in accordance with state and federal requirements and that a chain of custody is maintained.
+ Calculates, prepares, and labels sterile admixtures in accordance with USP 797 standards, including chemotherapy as assigned, utilizing proper technique and handling procedures/precautions.
+ Oversees pharmacy technician operations, including sterile admixture preparation, during assigned shifts.
+ Oversees the compounding and/or repacking of non-sterile medications.
+ Maintains an ability to adequately utilize all pharmacy technologies and electronic systems.
+ Prevents, detects, monitors, documents, and reports adverse drug reactions and medication errors. Makes medication-related patient safety a priority.
+ Utilizes the biomedical literature to provide drug and nutritional product information to patients and other healthcare providers. Actively listens and asks open-ended follow-up questions to ensure the true question is answered and any underlying concerns are resolved.
+ Effectively communicates with patients and other healthcare professionals. Goes above and beyond to assure optimal patient outcomes.
+ Troubleshoots and takes ownership of patient care issues.
+ Travels among UPMC facilities when necessary and as directed to completed assigned Pharmacy activities.
+ Participates in departmental activities, staff meetings, drug utilization evaluations, quality improvement programs, and other projects as required or assigned. Routinely facilitates high-level discussion at Pharmacy Rounds.
+ Promotes the Mission, Vision, and Values of UPMC and serves as a role model of the Standards of Behavior, with an emphasis on the patient at all times.
+ Provides training and education to pharmacy staff members and pharmacy students as assigned.
+ Proactively seeks to improve and expand professional skills through self-directed learning. Participates in departmental educational programs.
+ Alters normal routine and takes actions to accomplish tasks as needed on a daily basis.
+ Proactively reviews and researches current medical literature and guidelines.
+ Effectively searches and integrates data obtained from multiple sources to derive a conclusion or develop a patient care plan.
+ Maintains a well-rounded knowledge of all patient populations and facets of pharmacy practice while concentrating on areas of specialty.
+ Monitors the medication pipeline and anticipates changes in medication therapy and the potential impact it will have on the clinical and financial delivery of patient care.
+ Develops training and educational programs as needed.
+ Proactively identifies issues and collaborates with medical and nursing staff to establish or modify medication-related policies and procedures, protocols and order sets to support safe and effective medication practices.
+ Attends and/or leads assigned multidisciplinary committee meetings.
+ Participates in and actively promotes departmental activities.
+ Improves medication use at UPMC by conducting targeted medication usage evaluations and reports results to the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.
+ Assists with precepting of experiential rotations for PharmD clerkship students from affiliated schools of pharmacy.
+ Shares UPMC outcomes and experiences with colleagues through publication and/or presentations.
+ Minimum of 2-year hospital pharmacy experience as a licensed pharmacist.
+ Successfully completes all annual competencies as assigned, including clinical case-based competency.
+ Employee must maintain a portfolio, containing at a minimum:
+ Summary of contribution and progress on projects
+ Significant interventions made since the previous years performance evaluation
+ Significant continuing education or certification completed that demonstrate your personal commitment to keep your education current.
+ Maintains competency in and awareness of all areas of pharmacy practice and technology employed in all decentralized areas.
+ Doctor of Pharmacy degree preferred.
+ Completion of an ASHP-accredited residency preferred.
+ Certification by the Board of Pharmacy Specialties preferred. **Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:** Registered pharmacist with Pennsylvania licensure/eligibility.
+ Pharmacist
+ Act 34 with renewal
**UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran**
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