Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacist - Nephrology

The University of Kansas Health System•Kansas City, KS

About The Position

The Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacist provides comprehensive pharmaceutical care for patients in the ambulatory setting. This consists of ensuring drug therapy that results in safe, effective, and cost-conscious use of pharmaceuticals. In addition, the pharmacist ensures patients have appropriate access to prescribed medications and are provided with medication education as well as adherence tools when needed/appropriate. Candidates must demonstrate excellent interdisciplinary communication and exhibit strong educational and precepting abilities. This pharmacist will work the nephrology clinics alongside the multidisciplinary team to serve patients with nephrology disease states. This position is an opportunity to expand clinical pharmacy services into a new clinic space. The pharmacist will be responsible for initial clinical evaluation, patient education and ongoing monitoring of all patients with nephrology disease states on specialty medications in addition to targeted, non-specialty medication management. This may include the potential for referral-based care.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree in Pharmacy from an accredited college or university.
Licensed Pharmacist - State Board of Pharmacy in state of primary practice site.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) - American Heart Association (AHA) certification as necessary.
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and/or Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification as necessary.
Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS or BCLS) - American Heart Association (AHA)

Nice To Haves

Completion of an accredited pharmacy post graduate training program (PGY-1 and/or PGY-2 residency program).
Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties certification in chosen area of specialty.

Responsibilities

Actively participates in organizational and departmental performance improvement efforts to strengthen existing systems, processes, policies and procedures by introducing new ideas that lead to improved pharmaceutical care in clinical areas and in the pharmacy department as a whole.
Actively participates on the multidisciplinary team by consistently attending patient care rounds and providing patient – focused pharmaceutical care by assessing and monitoring drug therapy to ensure safe and cost – conscious treatment regimens.
Actively supports department staffing needs by flexing to other areas or alternative scheduling in order to assist in coverage of supplemental shifts when primary team is in need.
Assures timely medication order processing by participating in order entry, order verification and reviewing medication orders for timely resolution of problem orders.
Completes patient-specific medication profile reviews resulting in execution of protocol based drug therapy including, but not limited to pharmacokinetic dosing and IV to PO conversions with appropriate documentation.
Adjusts doses as appropriate for patient specific parameters such as renal or hepatic dysfunction.
Continually reports medication incidents and adverse drug reactions in Patient Safety Net (PSN) and participates in medication incident review, peer review, or other activities to establish safe medication systems.
Participates in medication reconciliation at the time of admission, transfer, and/or discharge and provides patient education when appropriate.
Shares pharmaceutical expertise by coordinating and providing educational presentations or in-services for pharmacy and non-pharmacy staff.
Supports pharmacy residency programs, clerkship students and interns by precepting organized rotations, providing timely and constructive feedback, participating in training and orientation, providing mentorship, and collaborating on presentations and projects.
Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
Other duties may be assigned as required.