Clinical Pharmacist Rotating Shift Contingent
About The Position
Under limited supervision, the Clinical Pharmacist provides clinical pharmacy services, including primary care, consultative, and drug information services, to patients and health care providers to support high-quality care. The pharmacist reviews prescriptions for safety and appropriateness, contacts authorized prescribers when prescriptions are vague or illegible, and fills prescriptions by dispensing or compounding medications according to established procedures. The role includes interviewing patients about medication history, counseling them on current drug therapy, identifying patients who need education, providing educational materials, and collaborating with other health care providers to coordinate patient education. The pharmacist assigns, educates, trains, and supervises support personnel, and ensures their work is accurate and compliant with policies and procedures. The pharmacist maintains medication and pharmacy-supply inventories and records, ensures medications and supplies are stored in accordance with environmental and regulatory requirements, delivers formal patient and staff education, and inspects patient care areas for proper drug availability, storage, and dating. Clinical services may include therapeutic drug monitoring, anticoagulation, nutritional support, investigational drug services, hematology/oncology pharmacy, medication use evaluation, pain management, and adverse drug reaction reporting. The pharmacist follows system, hospital, and departmental policies, procedures, and objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy or Doctorate of Pharmacy from an accredited College of Pharmacy, or completion of a foreign equivalency examination.
- Michigan Registered Pharmacist and Controlled Substance licensures obtained within three months of entry into the job.
Responsibilities
- Provide primary care, consultative, and drug information pharmacy services to patients and health care providers.
- Review prescriptions for safety and appropriateness and contact prescribers about vague or illegible prescriptions.
- Dispense or compound medications according to prescriptions and established procedures.
- Interview patients about medication history and counsel them on current drug therapy.
- Identify patients who need medication education, provide educational materials, and coordinate patient education with other health care providers.
- Assign, educate, train, and supervise technicians, residents, interns, clerks, and students involved in medication preparation and related duties.
- Ensure support personnel's work is accurate and complies with established policies and procedures.
- Maintain medication and pharmacy-supply inventories and related records.
- Ensure medications and supplies are stored in compliance with environmental and regulatory requirements.
- Provide formal educational programs for patients and staff.
- Inspect patient care areas to ensure proper drug availability, storage, and dating.
- Provide clinical pharmacy services such as therapeutic drug monitoring, anticoagulation, nutritional support, investigational drug services, hematology/oncology pharmacy, medication use evaluation, pain management, and adverse drug reaction reporting.
- Adhere to system, hospital, and departmental policies, procedures, and objectives.
