Symbria Rx Services - Consultant Pharmacist - 32 Hours/week

Overview

Symbria Rx Services is seeking a Pharmacist Consultant in Sharpsburg, PA.

Responsibilities

• Drug Regimen Review (DRR): Comprehensive monthly review of resident's medical chart or electronic record, including reviews of medication utilization, lab results, medical conditions, history and physical, vital signs, and progress notes. Incorporate additional community requests such as fall reviews, antibiotic usage, or specific medication class reviews into the DRR process.
• Meetings: Meet upon entry and exit (if possible) with Director of Nursing and/or Assistant Director of Nursing. Meet upon entry (if possible) with Administrator and/or Assistant Administrator.
• Recommendations: Make recommendations to the appropriate members of the Inter-Disciplinary Team to ensure and enhance the quality of care for the resident in the consultant's professional opinion, provide guidance toward adherence of laws, rules, guidelines, and policy and procedures from a pharmacy perspective, and provide a monthly psychotropic class report for community use.
• Quality Assurance (QA) Reports: Attend quarterly QA meetings and provide QA reports, which must contain changes to emergency and/or contingency supply, antipsychotic chart and graph, antidepressant chart and graph, anxiolytic chart and graph, hypnotic chart and graph, comparison with OSCAR numbers and graph if possible, summary of DRR process for the quarter, including number of medical records reviewed, breakdown of recommendations for the quarter, and community response rate to pharmacy recommendations.
• Physician Recommendations: Deliver within three business days to Director of Nursing or designee. Summarize the report and deliver it to Director of Nursing, Administrator, and any other person requesting within three business days. Place a copy of the report on company server in the designated folder monthly for each facility visited.
• Consulting Software: Update and maintain consultant software monthly. QA review of consultant activity: Review of charts, review of recommendations, paper reviews from computer printout. Maintain awareness of current laws, regulations, and guidelines for long-term care communities, both federal and state (where applicable and licensed).
• Education: Provide in-service medication-related education to nursing community. Ensure consulting software program is current and up to date.
• Other Duties: Any and all duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy from NABP accredited College of Pharmacy or Pharm D degree.
• Valid state registered pharmacist license, multiple state licensure may be required.
• Long-term care pharmacy (geriatric) experience preferred.
• General computer knowledge including Microsoft Office: Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Exercise professional phone, verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to maintain organization, prioritize and multi-task.
• Exhibit initiative and reliability.
• Knowledge of current State and Federal Long Term Care regulations and guidelines and familiarity with the nursing home survey process.
• Must have a valid driver’s license and vehicle with valid insurance.
• Willingness to travel up to 3 hours each way to business sites.