Investigational Drug Services Pharmacist

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with providers to individualize drug therapies promoting safe, effective and economical patient care.
• Perform comprehensive medication therapy review and other activities as necessary to ensure safe transitions of care.
• Assume responsibility for monitoring and modifying the drug regimen when referred, to include the ordering and interpretation of laboratory testing.
• Provide refill authorization in conjunction with assessment of adherence, disease states, drug interactions, efficacy, and safety.
• Act as a drug information resource to providers, nursing staff, research staff and patients.
• Ensure patient access to specialty medications by assisting with providing required clinical information to insurers when needed.
• Identify patients with indications for drug therapy who are under-treated and optimize drug therapy.
• Identify barriers to adherence to medication regimen, incorporating patient characteristics i.e. language, culture/religious practices, physical, cognitive, emotional, pain/discomfort, socioeconomic status.
• Utilize tools in educating the patient on self-management of disease and drug therapy.
• Review clinic prescribing patterns with clinic staff to design targeted education to promote consistency with UWP guidelines (or other nationally recognized guidelines when needed).
• The pharmacist may manage anticoagulation therapy, infectious disease therapy, complementary and alternative therapy, or pain/palliative care for clinic patients under a collaborative drug therapy agreement.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited School of Pharmacy State of Washington Pharmacist License
• Two years of experience in pharmacy practice (may substitute month-for-month for the experience)
• Preferred: Doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) degree, or equivalent, from an accredited School of Pharmacy