Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Outpatient Infusion - PGY1 REQUIRED - Mon - Fri 8:00am - 4:30pm

Northeast Georgia Health System•Gainesville, GA

23h•Onsite

About The Position

Serves as a pharmacotherapy expert and provides clinical services in a specialized practice area. Functions in the role of consultant and educator of drug therapy to the healthcare team. This position will care for patients in the neonate, child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric age groups. The employee performs clinical duties in accordance with population-specific guidelines and adheres to departmental policies and procedures.

Requirements

Licensed by the Georgia State Board of Pharmacy.
Doctorate of Pharmacy plus one year residency.
Good interpersonal skills.
Excellent clinical skills and judgment with the ability to effectively communicate with health care professionals.

Nice To Haves

PGY1 REQUIRED

Responsibilities

Identifies and resolves medication-related problems of varying complexity through interdisciplinary patient care rounds, profile review, and consult management.
Applies knowledge of medication management and patient assessment skills to intervene and recommend appropriate evidence-based, cost-effective, and safe therapy.
Collaborates with the Medication Safety team to detect, mitigate, and prevent medication adverse effects and/or outcomes.
Supports the hospital's antimicrobial stewardship program by ensuring compliance with formulary restrictions, providing antimicrobial stewardship interventions, and educating healthcare providers on appropriate prescribing and guideline adherence.
Serves as a subject matter expert in creating and updating evidence-based treatment pathways, guidelines, protocols, and order sets.
Conducts research (IRB approved) and quality improvement projects, including medication utilization evaluations.
Participates in the pharmacy residency program as a preceptor, preceptor-in-training, program director, program coordinator, or mentor, maintaining proficiency in preceptor roles.
Serves as a pharmacy department resource to liaise and collaborate with other departments to improve the medication use system.
Responds to drug information requests through retrieval, interpretation, and communication of pertinent medical literature.
Educates patients and families on medication therapy.
Provides formal and informal education to healthcare professionals, including the GME department, at the local, state, and national level to improve prescribing, administration, and monitoring of medication therapy.
Serves as an appointed preceptor for introductory and advanced pharmacy practice experiences, preparing students for post-graduate residency training.
Develops training experiences for pharmacists in medication consult management, pharmacotherapy, and decentralized pharmacy services.
Represents the pharmacy department during DNV surveys in the respective practice area.
Collaborates with other departments on reaching compliance with medication management standards.
Serves as an active member of the P&T Committee by evaluating medications for addition or deletion from the formulary and developing criteria for use and/or therapeutic interchanges.
Reviews and interprets primary literature and effectively presents pharmacy department proposal(s).
Participates in hospital or system-wide committees as the subject matter expert, including but not limited to: Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee, Sepsis, Sedation, Resuscitation, Stroke, or other disease state committees.
Completes other duties as assigned.
Collects and reports intervention data for the Antimicrobial Stewardship Team.
Conducts routine pharmacoeconomic assessments of the Antimicrobial Stewardship program across the health system.
Coordinates the agenda for the Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee.