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 and is accountable for comprehensive, evidence-based, patient-centered pharmacotherapy services across assigned practice areas. The role 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. It also advances care through teaching and precepting, quality improvement, and professional scholarship. The pharmacist serves as a pharmacotherapy expert, prospectively recommending and evaluating individualized drug therapy and identifying potential adverse drug reactions, interactions, and incompatibilities. The position documents patient-care, clinical, operational, and financial outcomes; verifies orders to support timely and accurate medication delivery; maintains accurate medication lists; communicates medication-related needs; and participates in patient-specific teaching and transitions of care. The pharmacist also contributes to pharmacy practice leadership, medication safety and quality initiatives, staff education, and supervision and precepting of learners and pharmacy personnel.

Requirements

Doctor of Pharmacy degree required. Candidates licensed and practicing as pharmacists since before 2004 may qualify with a bachelor's degree.
Licensure, or eligibility for licensure, to practice pharmacy in Ohio.
BPS Board Certification or eligibility for testing; certification must be obtained within 24 months of hire.
One of the following experience pathways is required: PGY1 and PGY2 pharmacy residencies or a fellowship; PGY1 residency plus 3 years of hospital pharmacist practice experience with direct clinical patient-care responsibilities similar to those provided through a PGY2 residency; or 5 years of hospital pharmacist practice experience with similar direct clinical patient-care responsibilities.
Pediatric hospital pharmacy experience is preferred within the stated experience pathways.

Nice To Haves

Pediatric hospital pharmacist practice experience.

Responsibilities

Prospectively recommend and evaluate individualized drug therapy using evidence-based, patient-specific, and pharmacoeconomic considerations.
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.
Verify medication orders to ensure 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 and families.
Participate in patient-specific teaching and coordinate transitions of care services.
Provide handoffs to pharmacists and other healthcare providers regarding anticipated pharmacotherapy needs, including medication changes.
Collaborate with the pharmacy team to support continuity of care and consistency of practice.
Participate in hospital and/or department committees related to medication safety and quality improvement while demonstrating pharmacy practice leadership.
Provide in-service training to medical, nursing, and pharmacy staff.
Precept and/or supervise pharmacy residents, students, interns, technicians, and graduates awaiting licensure.
Provide appropriate oversight and input in performance evaluations and meet ASHP requirements for ongoing precepting.