Clinical Pharmacist | Inpatient Pharmacy | 1 - 2 Shifts Biweekly | Hybrid
About The Position
Do you want to work at one of the top 100 hospitals in the nation? ChristianaCare is currently recruiting for a Clinical Pharmacist to join our team. Life is full of choices, and ChristianaCare recognizes whom you work for is an important decision. Choose an organization that values pharmacy services and provides the opportunity to impact the health of our community adhering to our Core Values and Behaviors guided by Excellence and Love. This is a hybrid position. You will need to be on site for initial training and for any additional in house on site training required. This position is part-time (one to two shifts biweekly, 8-hour shifts) that primarily works day shift with an evening shift component. You will also work every 4th weekend and 1-2 holiday shifts per year. Why ChristianaCare? At the Newark Campus, operations run through a network of inpatient pharmacists, including a central pharmacy and satellite pharmacies that focus on critical care, emergency medicine, heart failure, investigational drugs, neonates, oncology, pediatrics, perioperative services, sterile and non-sterile compounding, transplant, and trauma. Clinical services include robust acute and ambulatory care services. In the acute care setting, the department employs a decentralized model of practice, placing pharmacists directly into patient care units as part of a multidisciplinary team. As a Clinical Pharmacist you will: Participate in direct patient care through daily interdisciplinary rounds. Manage specific medication therapies per approved policies (e.g., warfarin, aminoglycosides, vancomycin, IV to PO conversions, renal dose adjustments, indication-directed dosing adjustments, selection of surgical prophylaxis medications) Evaluate drug efficacy, monitor therapeutic goals and outcomes, and review for contraindications/precautions Order and evaluate laboratory tests per approved protocols to support medication therapy monitoring Identify opportunities during chart review for counseling and medication history completion Communicate recommendations directly with provider Electronically document interventions and provide sign out as appropriate Opportunities to serve as a preceptor for both pharmacy students and residents Provide drug information to allied healthcare professionals and fulfill provider-initiated pharmacy consults Assist with projects such as MUEs, drug monographs, and performance improvement activities Review and interpret provider orders and dispense medication Coordinate and supervise work-place activities Assume responsibility of the satellite pharmacies including the sterile product processing in the IV Admixture Service lab and OR pharmacy
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy or PharmD degree from an accredited College of Pharmacy required
- Current licensure (or eligible to reciprocate) in the State of Delaware
Nice To Haves
- ASHP-accredited pharmacy residency preferred or equivalent experience (3 years acute care)
- Board certification preferred
Responsibilities
- Participate in direct patient care through daily interdisciplinary rounds.
- Manage specific medication therapies per approved policies (e.g., warfarin, aminoglycosides, vancomycin, IV to PO conversions, renal dose adjustments, indication-directed dosing adjustments, selection of surgical prophylaxis medications)
- Evaluate drug efficacy, monitor therapeutic goals and outcomes, and review for contraindications/precautions
- Order and evaluate laboratory tests per approved protocols to support medication therapy monitoring
- Identify opportunities during chart review for counseling and medication history completion
- Communicate recommendations directly with provider
- Electronically document interventions and provide sign out as appropriate
- Opportunities to serve as a preceptor for both pharmacy students and residents
- Provide drug information to allied healthcare professionals and fulfill provider-initiated pharmacy consults
- Assist with projects such as MUEs, drug monographs, and performance improvement activities
- Review and interpret provider orders and dispense medication
- Coordinate and supervise work-place activities
- Assume responsibility of the satellite pharmacies including the sterile product processing in the IV Admixture Service lab and OR pharmacy
Benefits
- ChristianaCare offers a competitive suite of employee benefits to maximize the wellness of you and your family, including health insurance, paid time off, retirement, an employee assistance program.
- To learn more about our benefits for eligible positions visit https://careers.christianacare.org/benefits-compensation/
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Mid Level
