Pharmacist II - Hematology Oncology

About the role

HJF is seeking a Pharmacist II to support the pharmaceutical healthcare of patients at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. This position is in support of the Murtha Cancer Center Research Program (MCCRP) and the Hematology Oncology clinics.

Responsibilities

• Supports a full scope of healthcare services for patients with both acute and chronic illnesses and conditions managing the entire spectrum of pharmacotherapy.
• Achieves special quality assurance studies and performs pharmacoeconomic analyses.
• Serves as a consultant on cases involving multiple, serious, or life-threatening conditions with conflicting drug requirements, serious drug reactions or interactions, or other factors not receptive to standard or more common specialized approaches.
• Supervises and conducts ward orientation for new medical, nursing, allied health, and pharmacy students, interns, and residents.
• Affords assessments of the physical and psychological health status of patients and/or their families through history-taking and physical examination IAW established protocols and references.
• Serves as a patient and family advocate. Receives, investigates, and acts on patient complaints.
• Develops and conducts health promotional services and serves in a teaching/coaching capacity in the development of other health care workers.
• Serves as an expert on pharmaceuticals, pharmacokinetics and pharmacotherapeutics and applies extensive and intensive knowledge and experience with drugs and other pharmaceuticals available, their nature, action, and interaction, and provides authoritative instructions, advice, and assistance in prescribing and dispensing officials in the MTF on effectiveness, suitability, hazards, and other aspects of their use.
• Responds to requests from the medical staff, outlying pharmacists, and medical staff personnel, participates in, conducts, or reviews studies involving complex pharmacotherapeutic regimens.
• Develops and implements pharmacotherapeutic regimens for especially difficult or complex cases.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned or directed by the supervisor.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) required.
• Minimum of 6-8 years experience required.
• Expert knowledge of evaluative, analytical, investigative, qualitative, and quantitative techniques to conduct review and analysis of pharmacoeconomic issues.
• Knowledge of complex pharmacological protocols to include use, method of administration, dosing, schedule, adverse reactions, and complications for acute episodic and chronic illnesses.
• Mastery to apply experimental theories and new developments to the resolution of complex healthcare not susceptible to treatment by accepted methods; or to make decisions or recommendations significantly changing or developing protocols.
• Knowledge of the full range of professional medical principles and practices and their application to provide a broad range of direct primary health care services (e.g., recognize signs and symptoms of illness, interpret lab results, and assess patients' medical conditions and health maintenance status).
• Knowledge and ability to apply emergency and resuscitative measures. Independently make decisions and implements proper emergency measures after identifying and interpreting life-threatening conditions. Initiates life-saving measures, which include, but are not limited to, basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation, calculating dosages and mixing potent and potentially lethal drugs and administering these drugs.
• Skills and ability to utilize various automated systems to include MHS Genesis, NEXiA, Outlook, ScriptPro, and Pyxis.
• High level of interpersonal skills to work closely with patients and the MTF staff. Skill in the utilization of good human relationship principals and techniques to resolve issues and ensure successful implementation of proposals.