Clinical Pharmacist

Emory•Lithonia, GA

20d

About The Position

The Clinical Pharmacist practices as a clinical expert in a specialty area, providing direct patient care and helping ensure appropriate medication therapy and clinical outcomes. The role develops and promotes evidence-based advanced clinical practice, practices under existing collaborative practice agreements, and establishes new agreements to enhance pharmaceutical care. It provides patient-centered, interdisciplinary care; reviews and processes medication orders; identifies and resolves drug-related problems; reviews patient profiles; monitors therapy; and documents clinical interventions and adverse drug events. The pharmacist develops system nomograms, guidelines, policies, processes, protocols, and order sets related to medication dosing, storage, handling, dispensing, and administration. The role supports patient education and transitions of care, participates in clinical initiatives and multidisciplinary committees, and may attend medical codes. It also contributes to staff training, competency assurance, student and resident precepting, continuing education, drug information services, scholarly work, publications, and national presentations. The position leads medication-use evaluations or quality-improvement projects, reviews safety trends, and recommends improvements. It oversees medication-use systems and the work of pharmacy students, technicians, and pharmacists in the specialty area. It also supports formulary review, medication selection, cost-saving initiatives, insurance authorization review, and 340B practices as applicable, with responsibility for departmental pharmacy financial stewardship in the specialty area. Other duties may be assigned or requested.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of pharmacy.
ASHP-accredited Post Graduate Year 1 and 2 residency or fellowship, or equivalent experience in the specialty area.
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 required within 90 days.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification required within six months if directly applicable to the practice specialty.

Nice To Haves

Relevant Pharmacy Specialty Board Certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

Practice as a clinical expert in the specialty area and provide direct, patient-centered, interdisciplinary pharmaceutical care.
Develop and promote advanced clinical practice based on current evidence and use or establish collaborative practice agreements.
Ensure appropriate medication therapy and institutional outcomes in the specialty area.
Review and process medication orders accurately and efficiently; identify, prevent, and resolve drug-related problems in consultation with prescribers, with appropriate documentation.
Review patient profiles, monitor drug therapy, and make recommendations or modifications under applicable protocols.
Evaluate, document, and support clinical interventions with critical analysis of literature.
Lead development of system nomograms, guidelines, protocols, order sets, and medication-use policies and processes.
Promote documentation of clinical activities, adverse drug events, adverse drug reactions, and medication variances according to policy.
Attend medical codes when applicable.
Develop medication policies and processes for proper medication and compounded-product dosing, storage, handling, dispensing, and administration.
Participate in system clinical practice initiatives and multidisciplinary or Emory Healthcare committees.
Develop and promote patient education materials and techniques concerning drug therapy, adverse effects, adherence, appropriate use, handling, and administration.
Participate in coordination of transitions of care as appropriate and support service completion and patient satisfaction.
Maintain clinical competency and knowledge of current trends through external professional activities; develop accredited continuing education activities every two years.
Precept pharmacy students and residents as available; support department training and competency assurance for the specialty area; develop and assist with education for pharmacy and other disciplines; assist pharmacists advancing their clinical skills.
Answer drug-information questions using in-depth knowledge of research designs, methodologies, and biostatistics.
Participate in scholarly activities and routinely submit publications or national presentations.
Identify process failures and participate in analysis and improvement efforts; lead an annual medication-use evaluation or quality-improvement project in the specialty area.
Oversee work performed by pharmacy students, technicians, and pharmacists to maintain performance standards and regulatory compliance.
Review medication safety trends and recommend patient-safety solutions; promote ideas that improve quality and advance the profession in the specialty area.
Provide financial stewardship for the specialty area, including developing and reinforcing medication-use policies and processes, participating in formulary review and medication selection, and supporting cost-saving initiatives.
Review medication insurance authorization status and maintain understanding of 340B practices as applicable.
Oversee medication-use systems in the specialty area.
Perform other duties as assigned or requested.