Clinical Pharmacy Specialist | Emergency Medicine | Midnight Shift | 7 On / 7 Off

Job Details

Join us in the ChristianaCare Pharmacy - Dedicated to getting the right drug to the right patient at the right time!

At the Newark Campus, operations run through a network of inpatient pharmacists, including a central pharmacy and satellite pharmacies focusing on critical care, emergency medicine, heart failure, investigational drugs, neonates, oncology, pediatrics, perioperative services, sterile and non-sterile compounding, transplant, and trauma. Clinical services include robust acute and ambulatory care services.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with healthcare providers, assess drug therapy, and provide medication-related care to achieve measurable outcomes.
• Participate in acute patient care as the pharmacy resource in the emergency department, including trauma, stroke, cardiac arrest, and other unstable patients.
• Assist healthcare professionals in discussions with patients and/or family members to help make informed decisions regarding pharmacotherapy options.
• Provide drug therapy related education to ED team members.
• Review the patient medication history to determine which maintenance medications should be continued during the acute illness.
• Avoid medication reconciliation for ED patients at the time of admission, transfer, or discharge to home or facility.
• Evaluate drug therapy for appropriate indication, dose, drug interactions, drug allergies, and monitor the pharmacotherapeutic regimen for effectiveness and adverse drug events (ADEs), and intervene as needed.
• Participate in the investigation and resolution of missing dose issues in the ED when needed.
• Evaluate appropriate laboratory tests necessary to monitor and support the patient’s drug therapy regimen when needed.
• Coordinate the development and implementation of emergency medicine focused drug therapy protocols, guidelines, order sets, and/or care pathways to maximize benefits of pharmacotherapy.
• Prepare and present drug therapy monographs and formulary reviews to the Pharmacy and Therapeutic committee for medications used in ED and critically ill patients as needed.
• Participate in reporting ADEs to institutional committees and national programs (e.g., the FDA MedWatch program).
• Participate in investigational drug programs as requested.
• Provide an interprofessional experience in training and mentoring pharmacy students, PGY-1 and PGY-2 pharmacy residents through experiential ED rotations.

Education and Experience Requirements

• PharmD from an ACPE-accredited School of Pharmacy required.
• ASHP-accredited PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency required or equivalent experience (3 years of acute clinical pharmacy experience).
• ASHP-accredited PGY2 Pharmacy Residency (Emergency Medicine) required or equivalent experience (3 years of in a Level I trauma center or Emergency Department) in addition to PGY1 residency or equivalent).
• Board Certification (example, BCEMP) required within 2 years of hire.
• Current licensure (or eligible to reciprocate) in the State of Delaware.

Pay

Hourly Pay Range: $65.25 - $104.41

This pay rate/range represents ChristianaCare’s good faith and reasonable estimate of compensation at the time of posting. The actual salary within this range offered to a successful candidate will depend on individual factors including without limitation skills, relevant experience, and qualifications as they relate to specific job requirements.

Benefits

To learn more about our benefits for eligible positions visit https://careers.christianacare.org/benefits-compensation/.

EEO Statement

Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community, and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.