Clinical Pharmacist - Inpatient Perioperative

The University of Kansas Health System•Kansas City, KS

14h

About The Position

The Clinical Pharmacist provides comprehensive pharmaceutical care for patients. This consists of ensuring drug therapy that results in safe, effective, and cost conscious use of pharmaceuticals. Must demonstrate excellent interdisciplinary communication and exhibit strong educational and precepting abilities. Ideal candidates have PGY1 residency training or PGY2 residency training in a specialty area. This clinical pharmacist position would work 8 hour shifts. All inpatient clinical pharmacist positions work an average of 3 evenings per month (start time between 1400-1500) and rotate approximately every 4th weekend. Provides cross‑campus perioperative clinical pharmacy coverage at the 39th & Rainbow and Indian Creek Campuses, supporting consistent, high‑quality patient care. Serves as a clinical pharmacy resource in the operating room, collaborating with anesthesia and surgical teams to verify and dispense medications and provide real‑time medication guidance. Manages complex postoperative pharmacotherapy for a broad range of surgical services, including neurosurgery, urology, ENT, orthopedics, trauma, burn, emergency general surgery, breast, and bariatric surgery. Primary focus on post‑operative surgical care, with dedicated intraoperative (OR) clinical coverage as part of the role

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.