Advanced Pharmacist

About the role

Last year our HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours volunteering in our communities. As an Advanced Pharmacist with HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center you can be part of an organization devoted to giving back. We have an exciting opportunity to join HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center, part of the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare. The Advanced Clinical Pharmacist Critical Care/Transplant practices the profession of pharmacy with the utmost code of ethics demonstrating the organization’s mission and values. The clinical pharmacist is responsible for the safe, effective, evidence-based, and cost-effective selection and utilization of medications for the patients they serve, uses advanced knowledge, skills, and professional judgment in all aspects of work, serves as a patient advocate when planning and implementing pharmaceutical care within a multidisciplinary rounding team, collaborates with other healthcare professionals, leads pharmacy services by serving or chairing hospital committees, presenting at conferences, contributing to publications, and providing regular, formal education to pharmacy and interdisciplinary teams. The advanced clinical pharmacist is responsible for one or more specialty services within the hospital, such as infectious disease (ID), critical care, and pediatrics, among others, and adheres to all regulatory and medication safety guidelines. HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center is a 445+ bed acute care hospital located in the heart of central Houston, adjacent to the Medical Center and Museum District, providing quality care for the greater Houston area, offering cardiology, bariatrics, orthopedics, neurology, emergency care, 24/7 emergency services, two intensive care units (SICU and MICU), accredited Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP) Center and accredited Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI, member of HCA Houston Healthcare and part of HCA Healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Leads committees responsible for establishing and implementing medication-related policies and procedures (e.g. Pharmacy & Therapeutics, Medication Safety, Antimicrobial Management Program)
• Is primarily responsible for the direction of one or more service lines with respect to pharmacy service lines (e.g. cardiovascular, pediatrics, critical care, etc.)
• Demonstrates leadership within the pharmacy department through a documented record of improvements in and contributions to pharmacy practice
• Maintains ongoing commitment to advancing the profession in the area of pharmacy practice in which they serve
• Provides regular, formal education to pharmacy and interdisciplinary teams in their field of expertise
• Models, mentors, and encourages pharmacy students, residents, and colleagues in a manner that fosters highly professional pharmaceutical care and high personal standards of integrity
• Performs all responsibilities of the clinical pharmacist as outlined below
• Verifies Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) orders for accuracy and appropriateness and intervenes when orders are unclear or potentially unsafe or inappropriate
• Interprets medication orders (verbal and written), transcribes to computerized patient medication profiles accurately, follows facility practices and procedures for documentation in the patient’s medical record and trouble shoots/clarifies Centralized Order Entry (COE) orders as appropriate
• Prepares and dispenses