Clinical pharmacist

Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley•Pleasanton, CA

11d

About The Position

Provides the full range of distributive, clinical, consultative, research, investigational, and/or administrative pharmaceutical and medication safety services. The role may involve selecting, compounding, manufacturing, purchasing, dispensing, and preserving drugs and other therapeutic agents; serving as a member or consultant on treatment and diagnostic teams; disseminating drug information; and participating in hospital or pharmaceutical research. Clinical pharmacy responsibilities include evaluating drug dosages and concentrations, interpreting prescriptions, dispensing prescribed products, identifying potential interactions or incompatibilities, maintaining medication knowledge, documenting patient data, preparing reports, and supporting teaching and training programs. The position may also provide investigational drug services, including support for clinical trials, study coordination, regulatory audits, and guidance to pharmacy technicians. Medication safety responsibilities include developing and overseeing medication safety plans, implementing error-prevention strategies, supporting medication-use technology, collecting and analyzing medication safety data, ensuring regulatory and accreditation compliance, investigating safety issues, and educating staff. The role also contributes to medication safety research, quality improvement, clinical decision support, emergency preparedness, and organization-wide safety initiatives. All duties must be performed in accordance with the C-I-CARE Standards of the Hospital.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from an accredited college or university.
Two years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience.
One year of completed PGY1 residency.
Current American Heart Association BLS Certification.
Licensed as a pharmacist by the California Board of Pharmacy.
Ability to apply judgment and make informed decisions.
Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
Ability to foster effective working relationships and build consensus.
Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, work independently, and meet deadlines.
Knowledge of how patient age, sex, disease states, concurrent medications, food, and diagnostic procedures affect drug activity and disposition.
Knowledge of local, state, and federal regulatory requirements relevant to the role.
Knowledge of medical terminology and abbreviations, pharmacology, medical therapeutics, pharmacokinetics, and disease states.
Knowledge of proper handling and storage of pharmaceutical supplies.
Knowledge of physiology, anatomy, pathology, chemistry, and mathematics as applied to pharmacy practice.
Knowledge of prescription and non-prescription drugs, including indications, efficacy, dosage, mechanisms of action, disposition, contraindications, and potential side effects.

Responsibilities

Provide distributive, clinical, consultative, research, investigational, administrative pharmaceutical, and medication safety services.
Select, compound, manufacture, purchase, dispense, and/or preserve drugs and other therapeutic agents.
Serve as a member or consultant on treatment and diagnostic teams and disseminate drug information to hospital staff and community groups.
Evaluate dosages and permissible drug concentrations, anticipate and address undesirable reactions, interpret prescriptions, and dispense prescribed products.
Notify physicians of potential synergistic, antagonistic, or cumulative effects, questionable overdoses, and incompatibilities.
Maintain awareness of developments and emerging practices in pharmacy.
Maintain records, document patient data, prepare written reports, and provide oral reports concerning patient care.
Contribute to accredited teaching programs and training courses as needed.
Ensure therapeutic agents are stored, protected, and preserved according to applicable USP and NF standards.
Coordinate and maintain pharmacy services relating to research and investigational drug studies.
Participate in sponsor site qualification and initiation visits and support dispensing practices for IRB-approved clinical trials.
Provide guidance to investigational drug service pharmacy technicians and attend meetings to provide pharmacy input on protocols when requested.
Coordinate drug therapy among study teams, protocol sponsors, and nursing, and participate in regulatory audits as needed.
Develop, oversee, and refine the organization’s medication safety plan and lead error-prevention strategies informed by standards, guidelines, literature, reports, tools, and safety data.
Integrate medication management and patient safety into organizational quality and outcomes initiatives.
Participate in planning, designing, and implementing medication-use technology and automation systems.
Promote a culture of safety through education and communication, and oversee collection of medication-error and system-failure information.
Ensure compliance with medication-safety regulatory and legal requirements and support accreditation standards and NPSGs.
Serve as an organizational medication-safety resource and consultant, including contributing to technology and emergency-preparedness initiatives and investigating safety events.
Chair the medication safety committee and support its agenda, error-report review, and project oversight.
Collect, review, and analyze medication-use process, medication-error, adverse drug reaction, and quality-improvement data.
Review and update clinical decision-support tools and educate staff about high-risk situations.
Design and support education, orientation, and competency programs in safe medication use for health care providers and other relevant audiences.
Share information about actual or potential medication errors or harm with safety organizations and relevant agencies.
Conduct medication-use safety research, implement evidence-based practices, contribute to the literature, and educate pharmacy colleagues, students, residents, and other health professionals.
Perform all duties in accordance with the hospital’s C-I-CARE Standards.