Critical Care

Emory•Atlanta, GA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

This is an overnight Emergency Department and Critical Care Pharmacist position at EUH. The pharmacist works primarily in the Emergency Department and has some ICU order-verification responsibilities. They are the primary responder to codes and medical emergencies in the Emergency Department and throughout the hospital. The schedule is 7 days on and 7 days off, from 9:30 p.m. to 8:00 a.m.; weekends and holidays are worked when they fall within the scheduled 7-on period. With the patient as the primary beneficiary, the pharmacist provides clinical, educational, informational, leadership, and medication-distribution services on the night shift. They organize and prioritize pharmacy technical personnel's work, check the accuracy of their work, and manage pharmacy operations in the absence of an on-site supervisor. The role includes ensuring safe and appropriate medication orders and distribution, responding to medical emergencies, providing patient-specific pharmaceutical care, documenting care, and working with the healthcare team to prevent or resolve medication-related problems. The pharmacist may also provide staff education, represent pharmacy services to other departments, and identify opportunities to improve clinical and distributive services. The position requires graduation from an accredited school of pharmacy and eligibility for Georgia licensure; Georgia licensure is required before the official start date. BLS certification is required within 90 days, and ACLS is required within six months if directly applicable to the practice specialty. One year of hospital experience and a PGY1 residency are preferred.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of pharmacy.
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 (ACLS) certification within six months if directly applicable to the practice specialty.

Nice To Haves

One year of hospital experience preferred.
PGY1 residency preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide clinical, educational, informational, leadership, and medication-distribution services on the night shift.
Prioritize workload and organize pharmacy technical personnel's workflow based on available resources.
Follow departmental procedures for checking the accuracy of pharmacy technical personnel's work in assigned areas.
Manage pharmacy operations on the night shift when an on-site supervisor is absent, seeking management assistance as appropriate.
Participate in employee performance and competency assessment; coach and counsel staff and document as required.
Provide in-service education for medical, pharmacy, and nursing staff as applicable.
Serve as a liaison between pharmacy services and other departments and/or participate in committee meetings as a department representative.
Identify performance-improvement opportunities and recommend ways to improve clinical and distributive services and the medication process.
Assess medication orders for appropriateness, including age- and organ-specific factors, allergies, duplication, and drug interactions, before preparing or authorizing first-dose distribution.
Maintain accurate patient profiles and use the EMAR Summary to schedule doses, avoid duplicate doses, and initiate dose changes correctly.
Prepare and dispense drug products using appropriate techniques and established policies and procedures.
Attend assigned medical emergency codes as a pharmacy team member.
Ensure compliance with drug-distribution policies and procedures.
Recommend appropriate alternatives for non-formulary requests and medication shortages or recalls.
Maintain accurate records for controlled substances, medication compounding, prepackaging, and sterile-product preparation.
Provide patient and caregiver counseling, where applicable, about drug therapy, adverse effects, compliance, appropriate use, handling, and administration; respond to medication questions as applicable.
Collect and organize patient-specific medication information needed to support rational and safe therapy.
Prevent, detect, and resolve medication-related problems, including kinetics, renal dosing, anticoagulation, protocols and guidelines, medication reconciliation, and core measures.
Collaborate with healthcare-team members to identify medication-therapy problems and develop plans to prevent or resolve them.
Use nomograms and departmental guidelines when making medication-related recommendations.
Document pharmaceutical-care activities, including adverse drug reactions, adverse drug events, and interventions, and write effective patient-care notes in EeMR.
Identify the requester's drug-information need and retrieve information through a systematic, efficient, and thorough process.
Work with the manager to formulate a professional-development plan; attend appropriate educational in-services and participate in professional activities and organizations to maintain current knowledge.