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Emory Healthcare•Atlanta, GA

2h•$64 - $76

About The Position

The Clinical Pharmacist I practices as a pharmacy generalist in one or more patient care areas, providing direct patient care and supporting departmental or institutional quality, safety, and cost-saving initiatives. The pharmacist ensures appropriate therapy and institutional outcomes through patient-centered, interdisciplinary pharmaceutical care, accurate order review and processing, prevention and resolution of drug-related problems, and daily review of patient profiles. The role includes evaluating and documenting clinical interventions, monitoring drug therapy, making recommendations or protocol-based modifications, consulting medical literature, and documenting clinical activities and adverse drug events. The pharmacist follows and reinforces medication policies and processes for dosing, storage, handling, dispensing, administration, and financial stewardship. The position also includes patient education, coordination of transitions of care as appropriate, service completion, and maintaining clinical competency. The pharmacist may precept students and residents, train pharmacy and other disciplines, participate in research and publication opportunities, and contribute to mentorship, collaboration, quality improvement, and medication-use evaluation efforts. Shift rotations are 7 days on and 7 days off, with shifts listed as 10:00–20:30 and 13:00–23:30.

Requirements

Eligible for Georgia licensure and licensed in Georgia before the official start date.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification in accordance with the American Heart Association within 90 days.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification within 6 months if directly applicable to the practice specialty.
Maintain clinical competency through licensure and departmental requirements.

Nice To Haves

One year of relevant experience; this requirement is waived for candidates employed as students or interns within the Emory Healthcare system.
Pharmacy Specialty Board certification.
ASHP-accredited Post Graduate Year 1 pharmacy residency.

Responsibilities

Provide patient-centered, interdisciplinary pharmaceutical care as a pharmacy generalist in one or more patient care areas.
Review and process medication orders accurately and efficiently, and perform in-depth daily patient profile reviews.
Prevent or resolve drug-related problems and consult with prescribers, documenting as appropriate.
Evaluate, intervene in, and document clinical care according to institutional protocols and guidelines.
Monitor drug therapy and make recommendations or modifications in accordance with protocols, nomograms, and other guidelines.
Document clinical activities, adverse drug events, adverse drug reactions, and medication variances according to policy.
Attend medical codes as applicable.
Follow, maintain, and reinforce policies for medication dosing, storage, handling, dispensing, administration, and compounded products.
Educate patients about drug therapy, adverse effects, compliance, appropriate use, handling, and administration.
Participate in coordination of transitions of care as appropriate and support service completion and patient satisfaction.
Precept pharmacy students and residents as available, provide at least one educational in-service annually, and assist with training pharmacy staff and other disciplines.
Participate in research and publication opportunities, mentorship and collaboration programs, and analysis and improvement efforts.
Participate in at least one medication-use evaluation or quality-improvement project annually.
Oversee work performed by pharmacy students, technicians, and pharmacists to ensure performance standards and regulatory compliance.
Support financial medication stewardship and cost-saving initiatives, review medication insurance authorization status as applicable, and maintain understanding of 340B practices as applicable.
Perform other duties as assigned or requested.