Pharmacist, Collaborative Care

About the role

The collaborative care pharmacist plays a crucial role in managing medication therapies and optimizing therapeutic outcomes while ensuring patient safety.

Responsibilities

• Accurately prepares and dispenses (and/or directly supervises) drug products throughout the assigned area in a timely fashion.
• Ensures the appropriateness of drug, dose, route, frequency, and duration for each medication ordered before dispensing.
• Automatically substitutes medications following the Automatic Substitution Policy.
• Clarifies all clinical ambiguities with the prescriber and completes the order clarification and order entry process appropriately.
• Corrects profiled orders when errors noted or if there is potential for misinterpretation.
• Ensures accuracy of all work completed by support staff (including accuracy of cassette filling when applicable).
• Prioritizes individual workflow and shift/expand assignments when requested.
• Utilizes intervention documentation application (with a minimum of 100 interventions monthly).
• Adheres to the non-formulary decision tree tool.
• Adheres to approved process of identifying and reporting of medication errors.
• Maintains accurate records as required by policy and procedure to document drug transactions with the Pharmacy and throughout the hospital.
• Reviews patient profiles to ensure appropriate and safe drug therapy.
• Prevents duplication of therapy, significant drug interactions and avoidable adverse drug events secondary to allergies.
• Serves as a resource for drug information and utilizes appropriate reference materials.
• Communicates outstanding issues with covering pharmacists.
• Competent in vancomycin dosing protocol and all other clinical initiatives.
• Successfully completes all mandatory clinical and hospital competencies by assigned date.
• Understands and accesses physician portal when necessary.
• Serves as a resource of drug information for patients and caregivers as requested.
• Engages patients when requested to counsel on current drug therapy regimens.
• Participates in patient education and outreach programs.
• Identifies and addresses potential barriers to patient medication use, understanding, and adherence.
• Engages in multidisciplinary rounds to provide drug information and represent the pharmacy during plan of care development.
• Assists in transition of care initiatives.
• Manages IV workflow while managing technicians appropriately.
• Ensures accurate and timely completion of batches.
• Maintains policies and procedures of the IV room: gowning, logs, cleaning, and environment.
• Prepares, labels, and dispenses parenteral drug products using appropriate aseptic technique.
• Verifies accuracy of TPN orders and enters TPN information in a timely fashion.
• Contacts physicians on any questionable IV/TPN orders.
• Familiarity with normal concentrations of additives in the geriatric, adult, adolescent, pediatric and neonatal populations.
• Capable of calculating fluid, electrolyte and caloric needs.
• Successfully completes all mandatory competencies by assigned date.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science or Pharm. D. required.
• Hospital experience required.
• General pharmacy knowledge; computer literate.
• ASHP accredited PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency strongly preferred.
• Registered Pharmacist License required.
• Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist preferred.