Clinical Pharmacist Specialist - Critical Care

TriHealth•Cincinnati, OH

2d•Onsite

About The Position

TriHealth is seeking an experienced Critical Care Clinical Pharmacist Specialist to join our team at Bethesda North Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. In this full-time, day-shift role, you will provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care to critically ill patients as a key member of our interdisciplinary intensive care teams. The specialist collaborates closely with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to support optimal patient outcomes within both the Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit (MSICU) and Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU), serving these teams on a rotating basis with other pharmacists. This position offers the opportunity to deliver advanced, patient-centered care while contributing to education, quality initiatives, clinical innovation, and the advancement of critical care pharmacy practice.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in pharmacy; PharmD or Bachelor of Science degree with equivalent decentralized hospital pharmacy experience (3years) OR accredited PGY-1, PGY-2 residency
Pharmacist, Ohio Board of Pharmacy Licensure
Clinical mastery of dedicated area of pharmacy practice that is consistent with the job posting
1-2 years’ Clinical Pharmacy practice that is consistent with the job posting
1-2 years' experience Clinical Pharmacy Completion of ASHP-accredited PGY1 pharmacy residency or Board Certification in related area of practice

Nice To Haves

Strong interpersonal, analytical, organization, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work collaboratively with diverse multidisciplinary teams.
Ability to effectively educate, instruct, and train pharmacists to a higher level of practice

Responsibilities

Assures pharmacy is an integral part of the health-care delivery system, leading assigned patient service lines, clinical areas, and therapeutic programs; and facilitating pharmaceutical care services, direct patient care programs, and medication utilization systems. Designs and implements stewardship activities and restriction/surveillance programs. Tracks and evaluates assigned pharmacy programs for operational, quality, and financial efficiency and routinely benchmarks against local and national best practices and identifies practice related issues. Develop and oversees policies and procedures.
Delivers direct patient care and clinical practice, including decentralized and service-based programs, maintaining proficiency in decentralized pharmacy services and clinical pharmacy programs. Is an active member of multidisciplinary team and collaborates with healthcare providers within decentralized patient care areas to provide patient-centered care. Identifies high-risk patients and implements interventions. Makes appropriate evidence-based, patient-centered medication recommendations, and provides discharge medication review, reconciliation, and counseling as appropriate. Participates in the management of medical emergencies.
Provides pharmaceutical services throughout medical center, maintaining proficiency in hospital computer systems and medication ordering systems. Provides accurate, safe, timely, and appropriate medication therapy. Completes critical patient monitoring and reviews patient profile/chart to identify, prevent, or mitigate drug-related problems and treatment failures. Communicates effectively and appropriately with healthcare providers and caregivers. Participates in new pharmacist orientation and contributes regularly to intra-departmental needs. Works closely with others to facilitate effective pharmacy education and competency evaluation.
Participates in pharmacy operations and medication dispensing. Maintains proficiency in and actively engages in operational programs, central dispensing pharmacies, satellite dispensing pharmacies, and specialty pharmacy areas as appropriate for job assignment. Facilitates specialty medication procurement, ordering, and dispensing procedures including but not limited to chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, controlled substances, etc. as appropriate for assignment. Oversee pharmacy operations and technician practice/activities
Facilitates experiential education and practice advancement. Maintains proficiency in preceptor roles and actively emulates education/mentorship skills. Develops student, resident, and staff training experiences/competences and creates new relationships for teaching and training opportunities. Identifies, designs, and implements improvements in the medication-use system to advance patient safety, maximize therapeutic outcomes, or control costs
Communicates relevant information to other department members.
Assumes personal responsibility for professional development, particularly in ongoing clinical education.