Inpatient Clinical Pharmacist - Internal Medicine

Provides comprehensive pharmaceutical care for patients, ensuring safe, effective, and cost-conscious use of pharmaceuticals. Demonstrates excellent interdisciplinary communication and strong educational and precepting abilities.

Responsibilities

• Actively participates in organizational and departmental performance improvement efforts to strengthen existing systems, processes, policies, and procedures by introducing new ideas that lead to improved pharmaceutical care.
• Participates on the multidisciplinary team by attending patient care rounds and providing patient-focused pharmaceutical care, assessing and monitoring drug therapy to ensure safe and cost-conscious treatment regimens.
• Supports department staffing needs by flexing to other areas or alternative scheduling to assist in coverage of supplemental shifts when the primary team is in need.
• Ensures timely medication order processing by participating in order entry, order verification, and reviewing medication orders for timely resolution of problem orders.
• Completes patient-specific medication profile reviews, executing protocol-based drug therapy including pharmacokinetic dosing and IV to PO conversions with appropriate documentation. Adjusts doses as appropriate for patient-specific parameters such as renal or hepatic dysfunction.
• Reports medication incidents and adverse drug reactions in Patient Safety Net (PSN) and participates in medication incident review, peer review, or other activities to establish safe medication systems.
• Participates in medication reconciliation at the time of admission, transfer, and/or discharge and provides patient education when appropriate.
• Shares pharmaceutical expertise by coordinating and providing educational presentations or in-services for pharmacy and non-pharmacy staff.
• Supports pharmacy residency programs, clerkship students, and interns by precepting organized rotations, providing timely and constructive feedback, participating in training and orientation, providing mentorship, and collaborating on presentations and projects.
• Performs the professional, clinical, and/or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy from an accredited college or university.
• Licensed Pharmacist - State Board of Pharmacy in state of primary practice site.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS or BCLS) - American Heart Association (AHA).
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) - American Heart Association (AHA) certification as necessary.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and/or Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification as necessary.

Preferred Qualifications

• Completion of an accredited pharmacy post-graduate training program (PGY-1 and/or PGY-2 residency program).
• Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties certification in chosen area of specialty.

Schedule

• 8-hour shifts.
• Average of 3 evenings per month (start time between 1400-1500).
• Rotates approximately every 4th weekend.