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Emory•Lithonia, GA

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About The Position

The Clinical Pharmacy Specialist practices as a clinical expert in a specialty area, providing direct patient care and ensuring appropriate medication therapy and clinical outcomes for the institution. The specialist develops and promotes advanced, evidence-based clinical practice and uses existing collaborative practice agreements while establishing new ones to enhance pharmaceutical care. The position provides patient-centered, interdisciplinary care; reviews and processes medication orders; identifies and resolves drug-related problems; reviews patient profiles; monitors drug therapy; and documents clinical interventions, adverse drug events, and medication variances. The specialist supports recommendations with literature analysis, develops system nomograms and guidelines, attends medical codes as applicable, and helps create policies and processes for medication dosing, storage, handling, dispensing, and administration. The role includes patient education, transitions-of-care coordination, service completion, and patient satisfaction. The specialist maintains clinical competency through professional activities, develops accredited continuing education activities every two years, precepts pharmacy students and residents when available, and supports training and competency assurance for the specialty area. The specialist answers drug-information questions, participates in scholarly activities, routinely submits publications or national presentations, and leads an annual medication-use evaluation or quality-improvement project. The specialist oversees pharmacy work and medication-use systems in the specialty area, supports regulatory compliance and patient safety, and leads development and review of protocols, guidelines, and order sets. The position also has responsibility for financial stewardship, including formulary review, medication selection, cost-saving initiatives, and medication-use policies and processes. The specialist participates in multidisciplinary or system Emory Healthcare committees and performs other duties as assigned or requested. This is an evening-shift position on a 7-on/7-off schedule, consisting of seven consecutive 10-hour shifts, generally 12:30 PM–11:00 PM. Shift times may vary according to departmental needs. The schedule is based on a two-week pay period and includes every other weekend and holidays that fall within the scheduled rotation.

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 within 90 days.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification 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 care.
Develop and promote advanced, evidence-based clinical practice and 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 and document appropriately.
Perform patient-profile reviews, monitor drug therapy, and recommend or make protocol-based modifications.
Evaluate, document, and support clinical interventions with critical analysis of relevant literature.
Lead development of system nomograms, medication guidelines, policies, processes, protocols, and order sets.
Promote documentation of clinical activities and adverse drug events; attend medical codes as applicable.
Develop and promote patient education on drug therapy, adverse effects, compliance, appropriate use, handling, and administration.
Participate in transitions of care and support service completion and patient satisfaction.
Maintain clinical competency and knowledge of current professional trends and practices; develop accredited continuing education activities every two years.
Precept pharmacy students and residents when available; support department training, competency assurance, and development of pharmacy and other-discipline staff.
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.
Recognize process failures and participate in analysis and improvement efforts; lead an annual medication-use evaluation or quality-improvement project in the specialty area.
Oversee pharmacy students, technicians, and pharmacists to ensure performance standards and compliance with applicable regulations.
Document adverse drug reactions and medication variances, review patient-safety trends, and recommend solutions.
Promote ideas that improve quality or address barriers to advancing the profession in the specialty area.
Provide departmental pharmacy financial stewardship; develop and reinforce medication-use policies and processes supporting financial stewardship.
Participate in formulary review and medication selection, promote cost-saving initiatives, review medication insurance authorization status as applicable, and maintain understanding of 340b practices as applicable.
Oversee medication-use systems in the specialty area and participate in multidisciplinary or system Emory Healthcare committees.
Perform other duties as assigned or requested.