Clinical Pharmacist - Pulmonary ICU and StepDown
About The Position
Vanderbilt Health is the region's largest comprehensive academic health system, with eight hospitals and over 180 clinics. They are dedicated to providing world-class care, advancing medicine through patient care, education, and research, and fostering a collaborative and supportive community. The Clinical Pharmacist in this role will provide leadership within a specialized healthcare team to ensure optimal, cost-effective drug therapy. This involves developing pharmacotherapeutic goals, recommending treatment regimens, and creating monitoring plans tailored to individual patient needs. The role also includes leading efforts in preventing and reporting medication errors and adverse drug reactions, and continuously improving processes to enhance medication therapy safety.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (Required)
- LIC-Pharmacist License - Tennessee
- 1 year relevant work experience
Nice To Haves
- Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY2 residency or other post-graduate training in critical care, internal medicine or similar.
- Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY1 residency plus experience in critical care or other relevant clinical practice setting.
- Equivalent years of experience practicing in critical care or other relevant clinical practice setting.
Responsibilities
- Delivering comprehensive pharmaceutical care to adult critically ill patients and patients requiring intermediate level care at Vanderbilt University Hospital.
- Participating in interdisciplinary team rounds.
- Code response.
- Completion of pharmacy consults.
- Support at transitions of care.
- Patient education.
- Antimicrobial stewardship.
- Monitoring of high-risk medication therapies.
- Reviews drug orders and/or prescriptions to ensure the safe, appropriate and cost-effective use of medications.
- Prepares and dispenses medications, provides drug information and manages medication therapy in accordance with federal, state and local regulations and hospital policy.
- Provides outstanding patient care by optimizing medication preparation and resolving medication-related problems.
- Maintains the quality, safety, and consistency of clinical pharmacy services in assigned areas.
- Supervises the activities of assigned support personnel and verifying the accuracy and appropriateness of all medications prepared by support personnel prior to dispensing to patients or dispensing to healthcare providers for administration to patients.
Benefits
- health
- disability
- retirement
- wellness offerings
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
