Medication History Specialist - Clinical Risk Management - Full Time

Responsibilities

• Interview patients and family members for the purpose of compiling an accurate and complete list of current medications the patient was taking prior to admission to the hospital, including all prescription, non-prescription, and investigational medications.
• Verify patient allergy information and ensure complete documentation.
• Utilizes available resources for medication history collection including but not limited to: patient and/or family interviews, medication lists, outside facility medication administration records, outpatient pharmacy records, and physician office records.
• Verifies preferred pharmacy and primary care physician information.
• Document any discrepancies and communicate to the pharmacist any complex and/or high-risk medications not comfortable with or does not have appropriate knowledge about.
• Assists pharmacists in preparing and distributing drugs, maintaining the drug inventory, and maintenance of records.
• Communicates to the pharmacist any questions or unresolved medication history issues that arise during the medication history process.

Secondary Job Functions

• Use good clinical judgment skills to determine the accuracy of medication history list as obtained.
• Solicit other sources of information to verify accuracy.
• Collaborate with charge nurse and patient nurse to determine when patient can be interviewed.
• Assesses incompleteness of the current list of medications by looking at drug, dose, frequency, and indication for use.
• Absorbs and communicates with patients of all education levels in an Emergency Department setting.
• Logs on to an electronic clinical database to determine if a medication list exists for patient.
• Establish rapport with patient to obtain medication history or determine if patient or family member can provide medication history or call patient's pharmacy or physician's office for medication history.

Qualifications

• High school diploma, or equivalent required.
• Experience in a retail pharmacy for 2 years, with hospital pharmacy technician experience preferred.
• Registered pharmacy technician in the state of practice required.
• Certified pharmacy technician preferred.
• ACPE accredited IV certification program, including hazardous (minimum 40 hours); or meet the minimum State requirement.
• Optional BLS, ACLS, PALS for Pediatric practice.
• ASHP Medication History certification preferred.

Pay

N/A

Schedule

5 Days - 8 Hours