Clinical Staff Pharmacist |Day/Evening Rotating Shifts

ChristianaCare•Wilmington, DE

8d•$59 - $95•Onsite

About The Position

ChristianaCare is recruiting a Clinical Staff Pharmacist for the Wilmington Campus In-Patient Pharmacy. The pharmacy operates through a network of inpatient central and satellite pharmacies serving areas such as critical care, emergency medicine, heart failure, investigational drugs, oncology, perioperative services, compounding, and trauma. Clinical pharmacy services include acute and ambulatory care, with pharmacists practicing in a decentralized model alongside multidisciplinary patient-care teams. The position works a rotating day/evening schedule, with weekends and holidays as required. The pharmacist reviews medication orders, evaluates therapy, resolves medication-related concerns with prescribers and nurses, provides drug information, and coordinates pharmacy workplace activities and resources. The role also includes supervising pharmacy technicians and ensuring appropriate standards in satellite, sterile-product, operating room, and ambulatory chemotherapy pharmacy services.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy or PharmD degree from an accredited College of Pharmacy.
Current licensure, or eligibility to reciprocate, in the State of Delaware.
One of the following experience qualifications: at least one year as a pharmacist in an acute care hospital; two years as a Pharmacy Intern or Pharmacy Technician in an acute care hospital; or two years as a pharmacist in an inpatient hospital other than acute care, a long-term care setting, or an outpatient Infusion Center.

Responsibilities

Review and interpret provider medication orders; evaluate drug efficacy, therapeutic goals, indications, contraindications, precautions, patient health status, drug profiles, and the medical record for potential drug-drug, drug-food, drug-laboratory, and drug-disease interactions.
Resolve medication-related problems in consultation with prescribers and nurses, and clarify questioned orders before dispensing the first dose.
Evaluate medication therapies in accordance with departmental policy, including anticoagulation, aminoglycosides, and vancomycin.
Manage medications according to Pharmacy and Therapeutics-approved pharmacist policies, including IV-to-oral conversion and renal dose adjustment.
Report, record, assess, and evaluate adverse drug reactions.
Provide accurate, timely, and cost-effective drug information to medical, pharmacy, nursing, and other healthcare professionals.
Coordinate and supervise workplace activities and resources, promote professional competence, and ensure services and work meet applicable standards.
Advise, assist, and supervise pharmacy technicians and assume final responsibility for the accuracy of their work.
Ensure USP 797 standards are consistently met in satellite pharmacies and sterile product processing in the IV Admixture Service lab, OR pharmacy, and ambulatory chemotherapy areas.