Clinical Pharmacist Position
4 weeks ago
Job Summary
The Clinical Pharmacist provides comprehensive pharmaceutical care to patients by delivering clinically oriented pharmacy services in the inpatient, outpatient areas and/or correctional facility.
Responsibilities include patient education and counseling of medications, performing medication histories and ensuring optimum patient outcomes or therapy.
The Clinical Pharmacist also provides training and teaching to pharmacy students and residents, medical students and residents, and ancillary professional staff.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitors drug therapy by analyzing patients' drug therapy with respect to potential problems, laboratory data and special procedures
- Provides consultation on the selection of drug therapy and appropriate dosing regimens, determination of therapeutic endpoints, total parenteral nutrition, clinical pharmacokinetics and intravenous therapy
- Participates in patient care rounds, as well as attending and grand rounds
- Monitors and evaluates patients' drug therapy
- Prepares patient admission medication histories on selected patients using accepted guidelines and documents this information in the patient's permanent medical record
- Provides patient education and counseling on selected patients using accepted guidelines
- Participates in the education and training of pharmacy staff and pharmacy trainees
- Initiates and/or participates in pharmacy and clinical drug investigations
- Conducts drug utilization evaluations and participates in patient continuous quality improvement projects
- Serves as the department of pharmacy representative on various committees throughout the institution
- Prepares literature evaluations for new drugs being requested through the Pharmacy and Therapeutics committee
- Contributes written information for Pharmacy Newsletter
- Remains current with medication and pharmaceutical literature
- Maintains state of Illinois continued education (CE) hours at an annual minimum of 15 C.E contact hours per year
- Records and submits workload statistics/clinical interventions as required by departmental administration
- Participates in the management of medical emergencies, i.e., disasters, cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Receives verbal medication, or medication related orders from authorized practitioners and reduces them to writing on a Physicians' Order Sheet (POS) or input into Cerner, in accordance with established policies and procedures
- Monitors, detects and reports adverse drug reactions (ADR's) and medication administration errors in accordance with established policies and procedures
- Assists in proper functioning of the automated drug distribution system
- Audits patient care areas for outdated medications, proper handling of pharmaceuticals, including controlled substances and emergency supplies
- Performs job functions of a staff pharmacist, when necessary
- Maintains the work area in a clean and orderly manner
- Performs other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Must possess a Doctor of Pharmacy Degree
- Must be licensed as a Pharmacist in the State of Illinois in good standing
- Must have successfully completed a PGY1 (Clinical Pharmacy Residency)
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and clinical applications
Preferred Qualifications
- One (1) year of comparable clinical pharmacy experience
- Prior Mental Health experience
- Board certification
- PGY2 Pharmacy Residency in Psychiatry
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