Clinical Pharmacy Specialist-Emergency Medicine
1 week ago
We are seeking a highly skilled Clinical Pharmacy Specialist to join our Emergency Medicine team at UnityPoint Health. As a key member of our healthcare team, you will provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care to patients in the Emergency Department, working collaboratively with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to ensure the best possible outcomes.
Responsibilities- Provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care to Emergency Department patients, including medication therapy management, dosing, and monitoring.
- Participate in daily patient care activities, including medication order clarifications, documentation, and communication with healthcare teams.
- Monitor drug therapy to evaluate appropriateness of use, dose, dosage form, regimen, route, therapeutic duplication, and drug interaction.
- Provide pharmacokinetic consultations and other dosing as required, and prevent, detect, monitor, document, and report adverse drug reactions and medication errors.
- Participate in the drug therapy management of medical emergencies, including code, trauma, stroke alerts, and poisoning.
- Promote the use of the formulary by converting nonformulary orders to formulary when possible, and coordinate procurement of non-formulary drugs when necessary.
- Maintain and update patient profiles with demographics, diagnosis, allergies, and current medications as warranted.
- Reconcile pharmacy and nursing medication records as necessary, and facilitate discharge/admission/transfer for Emergency Department patients, including preparation and dispensation of outpatient prescriptions as necessary.
- Expedite antibiotic administration by all appropriate mechanisms, counsel/triage patients on discharge/transfer medications as necessary, and optimize pharmacotherapy regimens utilizing current evidence-based recommendations.
- Maintain current hospital pharmacy knowledge, professional expertise, and skills necessary to assure the proper interpretation, safe preparation, and dispensing of medications for all patients.
- Provide operational support in the Emergency Department and Central Pharmacy as determined by departmental need, review medication orders for accuracy and appropriateness, and order entry for assigned areas.
- Resolve drug distribution-related issues, resolve automatic dispensing cabinet and sterile product-related issues, and cover assigned shifts as determined by departmental need.
- Promote and demonstrate rational, cost-effective drug therapy, identify and implement drug therapy where positive pharmacoeconomic impact could be achieved, and develop and conduct target drug programs and medication use evaluations as needed and report results to the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee or relevant subcommittees.
- Document clinical consultations and cost avoidance as part of the departmental clinical documentation program, monitor the use of expensive medications to assure there is an issue consistent with approved criteria, and anticipate changes in drug therapy and report the potential impact it will represent to the overall hospital and drug budget.
- Coordinate the pharmaceutical care of ongoing research in the emergency department, provide in-services for emergency department nursing and medical staff, initiate research investigations aimed at defining the role of emergency medicine pharmacists or optimizing the care of patients in the emergency department, and take a leadership role in the teaching programs of the Department of Pharmacy Services and College of Pharmacy as they are related to emergency medicine.
- Facilitate the personnel development in emergency medicine for pharmacists, provide presentations, publications, and other informative activities on emergency medicine and other drug-related topics to the healthcare community and general public, participate on hospital committees, and participate actively in emergency medicine team meetings and conferences.
- Must have successfully graduated from a recognized school or college of pharmacy with either a bachelor of science degree in pharmacy or a doctor of pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree.
- A minimum of two years of relevant hospital pharmacy experience or an ASHP-approved, hospital-based PGY1 residency required.
- Must maintain a current license to practice pharmacy in the State of Iowa.
- Current ACLS or equivalent certification or completion within 3 months of hire is required.
- Must be able to read, write, and speak fluent English.
- Must possess excellent communication and customer service skills.
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