Clinical Pharmacist - Antimicrobial Stewardship

Antimicrobial Stewardship

• Work with the antimicrobial stewardship leadership to define and implement institutional guidelines for appropriate use of antimicrobials.
• Attend inpatient clinical rounds with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Infectious Diseases teams on a regular basis.
• Facilitate transition of appropriate patients to ambulatory antimicrobial therapy.
• Attend and participate in microbiology plate rounds.
• Improve antimicrobial prescribing practices through education of provider and clinical pharmacy staff.
• Evaluate trends of antimicrobial use and resistance, In Fred Hutch patients, throughout the UW Medical Center and Fred Hutch Cancer Center.
• Review and provide feedback to providers on antimicrobial use.
• Participate in drug-use-evaluations and organizational process improvement projects.
• Work in partnership with Infection Prevention.
• Provide outpatient clinical coverage as needed to support the outpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist

Clinical

• Collaborate with providers to individualize drug therapies promoting safe, effective and economical patient care.
• Perform comprehensive medication therapy review and other activities as necessary to ensure safe transitions of care.
• Assume responsibility for monitoring and modifying the drug regimen when referred, to include the ordering and interpretation of laboratory testing.
• Provide refill authorization in conjunction with assessment of adherence, disease states, drug interactions, efficacy, and safety.
• Act as a drug information resource to providers, nursing staff, research staff and patients.
• Ensure patient access to specialty medications by assisting with providing required clinical information to insurers when needed.
• Identify patients with indications for drug therapy who are under-treated and optimize drug therapy.
• Identify barriers to adherence to medication regimen, incorporating patient characteristics i.e. language, culture/religious practices, physical, cognitive, emotional, pain/discomfort, socioeconomic status.
• Utilize tools in educating the patient on self-management of disease and drug therapy.
• Review clinic prescribing patterns with clinic staff to design targeted education to promote consistency with UWP guidelines (or other nationally recognized guidelines when needed)

Education

• Provide primary preceptorship of pharmacy residents and student pharmacists.
• Provide education to medical/surgical residents, nursing staff and medical students.
• Present at educational conferences to multidisciplinary staff, as requested.
• Develop and provide nursing in-services.
• Provide didactic teaching to student pharmacists at the University of Washington School of Pharmacy, as requested.

Research

• Participate in collaborative research projects with healthcare professionals, pharmacy residents and student pharmacists.
• Submit unique work for publication in professional journals.
• May assist in the preparation, review and implementation of drug study protocols.
• Collaborating with investigators in support of investigational drug studies

Practice Management

• Implement and maintain departmental policies and procedures related to the safe and effective use of medications.
• Routinely evaluate current updates in service specific literature.
• Develop and maintain drug therapy monitoring systems for patients.
• Establish and maintain efficient lines of communication between pharmacists, physicians, nurses and other members of the health care team.
• Participate in pharmacy and hospital committees as requested.
• Participate in the development and implementation of quality assurance programs for pharmacy services, including, but not limited to, prevention of medication errors.
• Perform drug utilization evaluation and cost containment analyses, as needed

Dispensing

• Perform duties of a dispensing pharmacist (oral chemo clinic, infusion pharmacy, and/or retail pharmacy) as required

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited School of Pharmacy
• Infectious disease pharmacy residency, fellowship training or year-for-year experience working as an infectious disease pharmacist.
• State of Washington Pharmacist License
• Two years of experience in pharmacy practice (months spent in the completion of an American Society of Health-System Pharmacists accredited residency training program may substitute month-for-month for the experience)

Benefits

• Medical/vision, dental, flexible spending accounts, life, disability, retirement, family life support, employee assistance program, onsite health clinic, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation (12-22 days per year), paid sick leave (12-25 days per year), paid holidays (13 days per year), and paid parental leave (up to 4 weeks).