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. The pharmacy is accredited by Joint Commission and is the lead location for the national Trinity Health Pharmacy Education and Advancement of Technicians (THE-PEAT) training program.

Responsibilities

• Assumes specific responsibilities in areas of Clinical Pharmacy under the direction of the Clinical Pharmacy Manager.
• Provides pharmaceutical care for neonatal through geriatric populations according to professional standards and statutory requirements.
• 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 for 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 health care 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.
• Makes 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 is required. Minimum of two years related experience, which may include a clinically oriented hospital pharmacy residency (PGY2).

Qualifications

• 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.

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 Tuition Reimbursement