Clinical Pharmacist - Toledo Pharmacy (Evening Shift)

Nationwide Children's Hospital•Toledo, OH

About The Position

Serves as an integral member of the multidisciplinary healthcare team, accountable for delivering comprehensive, evidence-based, and patient-centered pharmacotherapy services across assigned practice areas. Integrates direct patient care, medication safety, clinical decision-making, transitions of care, and interprofessional collaboration to optimize outcomes for patients from birth through 21 years of age and select adult populations. Advances care through teaching and precepting, quality improvement, and professional scholarship.

Requirements

Doctor of Pharmacy degree; candidates licensed and practicing as pharmacists since before 2004 may qualify with a bachelor's degree.
Licensure or licensure eligibility to practice pharmacy in Ohio.
BPS Board Certification or eligibility for testing, with certification required within 24 months of hire.
One of the following experience pathways is required: PGY1 and PGY2 pharmacy residencies, or a PGY2 fellowship; PGY1 residency plus three years of hospital pharmacist practice with direct clinical patient-care responsibility similar to PGY2 training; or five years of hospital pharmacist practice with similar direct clinical patient-care responsibility.
Pediatrics experience is preferred for the hospital pharmacist practice experience pathways.

Nice To Haves

Pediatrics experience.

Responsibilities

Serve as the pharmacotherapy expert on the patient care team by prospectively recommending and evaluating individualized drug therapy, considering evidence, patient-specific factors, and pharmacoeconomic principles.
Identify potential adverse drug reactions, drug-drug, disease and drug-food interactions, and incompatibilities that may affect patient outcomes.
Document direct patient care, clinical, operational, and financial outcomes and activities in the medical record.
Operationalize recommendations through order verification to support timely and accurate medication delivery in a form appropriate for the patient.
Maintain accurate medication lists and communicate medication-related needs promptly to the multidisciplinary team, other pharmacists, and patients or families.
Participate in the development and coordination of patient-specific teaching and transitions-of-care services.
Provide handoffs to pharmacists and other healthcare providers regarding anticipated pharmacotherapy needs, including medication changes.
Collaborate with pharmacy team members to ensure continuity of care and consistency of practice.
Participate in hospital and/or department committees related to medication safety and quality improvement, demonstrating pharmacy practice leadership.
Provide in-service training to medical, nursing, and pharmacy staff.
Precept and/or supervise pharmacy residents, students, interns, technicians, or graduates awaiting licensure; provide oversight and input for performance evaluations and meet ASHP precepting requirements on an ongoing basis.