Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacy Specialist

Emory Healthcare • Atlanta, GA

90d

About The Position

At Emory Healthcare, we fuel your professional journey with better benefits, valuable resources, ongoing mentorship and leadership programs for all types of jobs, and a supportive environment that enables you to reach new heights in your career and be what you want to be. We provide comprehensive health benefits that start day one, student loan repayment assistance & reimbursement programs, family-focused benefits, wellness incentives, ongoing mentorship and leadership programs, and more! Emory Healthcare is an academic medical center with a high acuity patient population. Our pharmacy staff works side by side with our fellow health care providers creating an interdisciplinary team approach to patient care. The Pharmacy at Emory’s goal is to provide patient- and-family centered medication management to the patients we serve and defining a new standard of care for humankind.

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.
• Active Georgia Pharmacist license.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification in accordance with the American Heart Association required within 90 days.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support required within 6 months, if directly applicable to practice specialty.

Nice To Haves

• Relevant Pharmacy Specialty Board certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Practices as a clinical expert in specialty practice area.
• Develops and promotes advanced clinical practice based upon recent evidenced based practice.
• Practices under existing and establishes new collaborative practice agreements to enhance pharmaceutical care.
• Ensures institution-wide appropriate therapy and institutional outcomes in specialty area.
• Consistently provides patient-centered, interdisciplinary pharmaceutical care.
• Proactively reviews and processes orders accurately and efficiently.
• Prevents and/or resolves drug-related problems to ensure safety, efficacy, and cost-efficiency by consulting with the ordering prescriber and appropriately documents.
• Performs daily in-depth patient profile review to assess, monitor and recommend appropriate drug therapy as applicable.
• Consistently evaluates, intervenes, and documents clinical interventions beyond institutional protocols and guidelines.
• Supports recommendations with critical analysis of literature.
• Monitors drug therapy regimens and makes recommendations or modifications per protocol.
• Leads the development of system nomograms and other guidelines.
• Promotes the documentation of clinical activities and adverse drug events.
• Attends medical codes as applicable.
• Develops system policies and processes for proper dosing, storage, handling, dispensing, and/or administration of medications and compounded products.
• Actively participates in development of system clinical practice initiatives.
• Serves as a role model for complex clinical and ethical situations and resolves conflict constructively.
• Develops, uses and promotes effective patient education materials and techniques for drug therapy, adverse effects, compliance, appropriate use, handling and drug administration education.
• Participates in coordination of transitions of care as appropriate.
• Responsible for service completion and patient satisfaction.
• Engages in external professional activities to maintain clinical competency and knowledge of current trends and practices.
• Develops accredited continuing education activities every 2 years.
• Precepts pharmacy students and residents as available.
• Responsible for department training and competency assurance for specialty area.
• Develops and assists in training and education of pharmacy and other disciplines.
• Assists pharmacists seeking to advance their clinical skills.
• Answers drug information questions with in-depth knowledge of research designs, methodologies, and biostatistics.
• Actively participates in scholarly activities in specialty area; submits publications or national presentations routinely.
• Recognizes process failures and actively engages in analysis and improvement efforts.
• Leads medication use evaluation or quality improvement project annually in specialty area.
• Oversees the work performed by pharmacy students, technicians and pharmacists to ensure performance standards are maintained and work is in accordance with state, federal and organizational regulations.
• Documents adverse drug reactions and medication variances per policy.
• Reviews trends and recommends patient safety solutions in specialty.
• Promotes new ideas to improve quality or overcome barriers to advance the profession in specialty area.
• Responsible for overall departmental pharmacy financial stewardship for specialty area.
• Leads the development and reinforcement of medication use policies and processes to ensure financial medication stewardship.
• Actively participates in formulary review and medication selection to promote cost savings.
• Supports and promotes cost-savings initiatives.
• Engages in review of medication insurance authorization status as applicable.
• Maintains and promotes understanding of 340b practices as applicable.
• Responsible for oversight of medication use systems in specialty area.
• Leads the development and review of protocols, guidelines, or order sets.
• Participates in multidisciplinary or system Emory Healthcare committee.
• Performs other duties as assigned or requested.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits that start day one
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance & Reimbursement Programs
• Family-focused benefits
• Wellness incentives
• Ongoing mentorship and leadership programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees