Home Infusion Pharmacy Pharmacist - Relief

Function/Duties of Position

• Identifies, resolves and documents complex therapeutic problems, demonstrating advanced knowledge and application of this knowledge to a home infusion patient population.
• Maintains therapeutic response and adverse effects of medications to guide home infusion drug therapy.
• Consults with provider when questions or problems are identified.
• Appropriately reports all adverse drug reactions, drug defects, and medication errors.
• Responds accurately to requests for drug information from physicians, nurses, patients and patient's families; independently reviews and interprets the literature and applies this information to specific patient care situations.
• Interprets and evaluates physician's orders and prescriptions for accuracy, completeness and appropriateness.
• Verify the accuracy and appropriateness of medications prepared and dispensed from the home infusion pharmacy.
• Supervise the activities and assume responsibility for all duties being performed by pharmacy technicians in your work areas.

Required Qualifications

• A current Pharmacist’s license issued by the Oregon State Board of Pharmacy.
• OHSU may require training or experience in a specialized area at time of recruitment.
• PGY-2 Specialty Residency.
• BLS/ACLS/PALS certification.
• Vaccination certification.
• Specialist Certifications (BCPS, BCOPS, etc.).
• BS in Pharmacy or Pharm.D.
• PLUS Practice Residency or 2 years of working at an infusion pharmacy location.
• Ambulatory or outpatient infusion pharmacy practice.

Job Related Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (Competencies)

• Enforce pharmaceutical care principles safely and accurately.
• Make age-related modification of drug therapy.
• Make disease-related modification of drug therapy.
• Evaluate medical literature.
• Work independently without minimal direct supervision.
• Work cooperatively with health-system and pharmacy staff.
• Communicate effectively and professionally (orally and in writing).
• Perform work accurately with attention to detail.
• Exercise sound professional judgement.
• Perform systematic problem solving.
• Enforce practice guidelines, standards, and medication related policies.
• Make critical decisions.
• Perform key computer related skills including use of the EMR, common word processing, spreadsheet, medical literature and medication databases.

Additional Details

• The pharmacist will experience competing demands from nurses, physicians, pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals, as they attempt to influence clinical decision-making, clinical policies and practices and work flow.
• The pharmacist must deal with intense situations on a daily basis.
• Within the healthcare setting there can be significant lack of control over the work pace, with frequent interruptions (work is often dictated by external factors) that may lead to mental fatigue or stress.
• The pharmacist must also be available to be on call weekdays and weekends.