Clinical Pharmacist I - General Pharmacy
About The Position
All pharmacists fill orders for drugs, monitor patient drug therapies, and provide drug information. They provide pharmacy services with compassion, excellence, and efficiency. The Clinical Pharmacist prepares and dispenses medications, verifies and maintains patient medication records, compounds pharmaceuticals, issues controlled substances, and supervises pharmacy support personnel. Ambulatory care pharmacists may provide pharmaceutical care under approved protocols or collaborative agreements, including drug therapy management, anticoagulation management, patient education, and medication preparation and dispensing. The role ensures safe, appropriate, and cost-effective drug therapy; monitors for contraindications, interactions, allergies, and dosing concerns; supports pharmacokinetics consultation and renal dosing; and provides clinical consultation and drug information to healthcare professionals. The pharmacist also supports formulary management, medication-use review, quality improvement, clinical interventions, stewardship activities, and interdisciplinary care as assigned. The position is PRN, per diem as needed. It involves potential exposure to hazardous or toxic substances, needles and other sharps, biological materials during direct patient care, and possible musculoskeletal injury if safe lifting and carrying techniques are not used.
Requirements
- Doctor of Pharmacy or Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy degree.
- Pharmacy state licensure required within 60 days of the start date.
- BLS or ACLS certification required.
- PALS certification required for pediatric practice.
- Obtain required certifications within the designated time frame under the CHRISTUS Health License, Certification and Registration Verification Policy.
Nice To Haves
- Hospital experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and dispense medication orders according to physician requests and established policies, procedures, and protocols.
- Interpret verbal and written drug orders and accurately enter or verify them in the computerized patient medication record.
- Maintain accurate and complete patient drug records.
- Compound and dispense non-sterile and sterile pharmaceuticals, including chemotherapy and parenteral nutrition products.
- Issue controlled substances to patient care areas and maintain legally and institutionally required records.
- Provide pharmacy services efficiently and in a timely manner.
- Maintain a current pharmacist license and ensure continuing education records and licensure documentation are maintained in department files.
- Attend staff meetings and complete competency and skills assessment requirements.
- Supervise and direct pharmacy support personnel, and verify pharmacy technicians’ daily activities.
- For ambulatory care practice, provide pharmaceutical care under approved protocols or collaborative agreements, including drug therapy and anticoagulation management, patient education, and medication preparation and dispensing.
- Perform duties in assigned clinical areas, which may include anticoagulation clinics, intensive medical home, transition of care, and discharge medication reconciliation.
- Ensure safe, appropriate, and cost-effective drug therapies in accordance with established policies, procedures, and protocols.
- Monitor drug regimens for contraindications, drug-drug and drug-food interactions, allergies, and appropriateness of drug and dose.
- Assist with pharmacokinetics consultation services and renal drug dosing under hospital protocol.
- Read, extract, and interpret patient medical record information accurately.
- Detect and report suspected adverse drug reactions accurately and promptly.
- Support the hospital drug formulary, minimize non-formulary procurement, use therapeutic substitution protocols, and promote rational drug selection.
- Provide clinical consultation and clarification to practitioners and accurate, timely drug information to professional staff.
- Educate patients and their families about medications according to institutional protocol.
- Participate in departmental quality improvement and medication-use review activities.
- Collect data; conduct assigned monitoring and inspections; and maintain logs, records, and other documentation.
- Conduct designated clinical interventions, including IV-to-PO conversion, renal dosing, pharmacokinetic dosing support, and anticoagulation activities.
- Meet departmental standards for reporting clinical interventions as defined by departmental productivity goals.
- Participate in antibiotic stewardship, opioid stewardship, and medication shortage management as assigned.
- Attend interdisciplinary rounds when assigned.
