Clinical Pharmacist - Midnights

About the role

The inpatient pharmacy at Trinity Health Ann Arbor is open 24/7, serving inpatients, the emergency department, operating rooms, and multiple procedural areas. Clean room operations are accredited by Joint Commission for adherence to USP 797 and 800 standards. Trinity Health Ann Arbor leads the national Trinity Health Pharmacy Education and Advancement of Technicians (THE-PEAT) training program to educate pharmacy students.

Position Purpose

Under the direction of the Clinical Pharmacy Manager, this position assumes specific responsibilities in areas of Clinical Pharmacy. It involves providing pharmaceutical care and promoting high-quality, cost-effective, patient-focused care, considering age-specific needs. The role requires pharmacotherapy expertise, participation in interdisciplinary education programs, and involvement in problem recognition and resolution related to medication usage.

Responsibilities

• Assumes pharmacist functions on a rotating basis.
• Provides pharmaceutical care for neonatal through geriatric populations according to professional standards and statutory requirements.
• Provides direct patient care through patient care rounding, medication order review, medication therapy monitoring, and consults with other healthcare providers to ensure the most effective use of medications.
• Performs medication procurement and dose preparation based on need and urgency.
• Collaborates with the medical and nursing staffs to identify patients requiring intensive pharmacy intervention and facilitates communication of pharmaceutical care plans to other healthcare providers.
• Maintains drug therapy and answers drug therapy-related questions.
• Works with medical and nursing staff to optimize drug therapy delivery, provides drug therapy in-service education, problem solves, and assists nurses in communicating with the medical staff.
• Develops and monitors guidelines or drug use protocols specific to area of specialty.
• Participates in monitoring and ensuring medication safety through proactive and continuous monitoring of medication practices.
• Identifies high-risk medications or patients for monitoring to prevent potential errors.
• Contributes to improving medication safety through root cause analysis and identification of potential solutions and policy/guideline development in conjunction with the other healthcare providers.
• Participates in evaluating medications for formulary considerations with a pharmacoeconomic analysis and prescribing guidelines in conjunction with the medical staff.
• Conducts MUEs as necessary and recommends cost-effective drug use.
• Leads/promotes continuous quality improvement programs to meet organizational and pharmacy department goals.
• Maintains procedures and processes to identify areas needing improvement, prepares reports, educates, and makes suggestions and recommendations for improvement to the appropriate leader or responsible committee.
• Educates physicians, associates, and other allied disciplines about the goals and rationale of the institution’s quality of care and cost containment programs related to medication usage and pharmacotherapy.

Requirements

• Requires Doctor of Pharmacy Degree (Pharm.D) or clinical-oriented Master's Degree in hospital pharmacy from an accredited College of Pharmacy or equivalent.
• Minimum of two years related experience, which may include a clinically-oriented hospital pharmacy residency (PGY2).
• Current State of Michigan Pharmacist and controlled substance license or eligibility for licensure.
• Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist in area of practice if applicable is preferred.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.

Skills

• Strong interpersonal skills necessary to effectively communicate drug therapy information to all health team members, patients, and administrators/managers.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of pharmacokinetics (mathematic modeling of a drug's absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion in a patient).
• Demonstrated teaching ability to instruct and precept pharmacists, pharmacy residents, and pharmacy students in the area of pharmacy practice specialty.
• Demonstrated research and publishing skills.
• Excellent customer service orientation skills necessary to deal effectively with various levels of hospital personnel.
• Maintains thirty continuing education credits every two years as required by Michigan Board of Pharmacy.

Qualifications

• Requires Doctor of Pharmacy Degree (Pharm.D) or clinical-oriented Master's Degree in hospital pharmacy from an accredited College of Pharmacy or equivalent.
• Minimum of two years related experience, which may include a clinically-oriented hospital pharmacy residency (PGY2).
• Current State of Michigan Pharmacist and controlled substance license or eligibility for licensure.
• Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist in area of practice if applicable is preferred.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.

Benefits

Competitive compensation, DAILYPAY Benefits effective Day One! No waiting periods. Full benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, Life Insurance, Short and Long-term Disability, Retirement savings plan with employer match and contributions, Opportunity for growth and advancement throughout SJMHS and Trinity Health, and Tuition Reimbursement.