PHARMACIST CLIN SPECIALIST ED

Job Description

The Pharmacist is primarily responsible for optimizing medication therapy. He/she reviews, evaluates, recommends, and manages drug therapy. He/she influences drug therapy management decision-making and develops protocols based on scientific evidence. The Pharmacist evaluates the medical literature and provides drug information. He/she interacts with professional staff and patients. He/she maintains a specialized knowledge of medication therapy.

Responsibilities

Consults with medical staff

Designs custom drug regimens based on specific patient parameters including weight, fluid status, renal function, liver function and disease state that minimize drug toxicity and optimize outcomes. Recommends and monitors therapy.

Formulates total parenteral nutrition based on specific patient parameters including calorie consumption fluid status electrolyte balance acid-base status organ function and disease state. Recommends and monitors therapy.

Performs pain assessments and designs pain management care plans. Makes recommendations and monitors therapy.

Provides antibiotic stewardship

Provides recommendations for patients needing toxicologic interventions / antidotes

Provides direct patient care by integrating one's self as a member of the interdisciplinary emergency medicine team.

Responds to all trauma and medical resuscitation in the ER, including code stroke.

Participate in emergency preparedness efforts and quality improvement initiatives in the emergency department.

Ensures continuity of care as patients transition between care settings from the ER to inpatient or outpatient settings.

Speaks publicly and provides instruction on pharmacotherapy to nurses, pharmacists, physicians, and students

Evaluates the medical literature. Performs drug usage evaluations. Manages investigational drug studies.

Performs any duties of a pharmacist as required.

Assists with maintaining regulatory compliance

Precepts pharmacy residents and interns.

May perform other duties as assigned or requested and job specification can be modified or updated at any time.

Qualifications

Required Education: Doctorate - Pharmacy. Graduate from an accredited school of pharmacy. Bachelors of Science in Pharmacy is acceptable for those who earned their degree prior to 2000

Preferred Education: ASHP Accredited Post Graduate Year 1 (PGY1) Residency

Required Experience: Either PGY1 Residency or three years of clinical pharmacy practice. Competent to accept any clinical pharmacy assignment and work independently

Required Certifications and Licensures: Licensed to practice pharmacy in the state of Virginia. Certified by Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BCPS) (if not currently obtained, must obtain within 18 months)Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties Certification. Must be renewed at least every eight years

Preferred Certifications and Licensures: Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)

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