Pediatric Clinic Staff Pharmacist PRN

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

12h•Onsite

About The Position

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is seeking a PRN Staff Pharmacist to join the Clinic Pharmacy team at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. This role involves providing leadership in medication preparation and dosing, offering patient-specific drug information, and assisting in the prevention and reporting of medication errors. The pharmacist will support positive relationships with healthcare professionals, families, and patients, and will be involved in ongoing education. Clinic hours are weekdays from 6:30 am to 5:00 pm and weekends from 7:00 am to 3:30 pm, with variable 8-hour and 10-hour shifts as needed for PRN staffing. Responsibilities include outpatient clinic infusions and inpatient TPN, sterile medication preparation and dispensing, providing drug information, and collaborating with the clinic infusion nursing and billing teams to resolve drug approvals and therapy plan updates.

Requirements

LIC-Pharmacist License - Tennessee
Relevant Work Experience
Less than 1 year experience
Bachelor's Degree (Required)
Possesses specialized knowledge of the appropriate rules and regulations and applies them in difficult, stressful and complex situations.
Demonstrates expertise and advanced knowledge of process improvement, and quality assurance techniques.
Understands the principles upon which the rules and regulations are based.
Demonstrates a commitment to continuous quality improvement and maintains compliance with a federal, state and local regulations as well as VUMC policies and procedures.
Able to explain rules and regulations that are ambiguous or unclear.
Has demonstrated a proficient understanding of computers or has successfully completed training for applications that are used to support medication use processes.
Is capable of using the fundamental features of pharmaceutical computer applications to support patient care issues of moderate difficulty.
Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully review, prepare and dispense prescribed medications.
Proficient in the general principles of aseptic technique utilized to compound sterile preparations (CSPs) to minimize the risk of contamination (where applicable).
Demonstrates proficiency in medication management in practical applications of a difficult nature.
Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully conducting Medication Management without requiring support and instruction from others.
Has the ability to determine the clinical appropriateness of each medication taken by the patient, determine the appropriateness of the dose, dosage form, indication, contraindications, potential adverse effects and potential problems with concomitant medications.
Able to monitor for therapeutic duplication or other unnecessary medications, interpret, monitor and assessing patient's laboratory results as they relate to medication therapy and provide drug information to other healthcare professionals, patients and their families.
Constructively trains and mentors others by providing positive direction and feedback.
Has provided constructive suggestions to improve a situation.
Knows how to remove roadblocks to success and avoids judgments at all times.
Makes a concerted effort to pass on experiences and job information that can be learned easily.
Executes job responsibilities with the understanding of how output would affect and impact other areas related to own job area/team with occasional guidance.
Analyzes moderately complex problems using technical experience and judgment.
Has expanded knowledge gained through experience within a professional area.
Provides informal guidance and support to team members.
Invests time, energy, and enthusiasm in developing self/others to help improve performance and gain knowledge in new areas.
Maintains regular contact with key colleagues and stakeholders using formal and informal opportunities to expand and strengthen relationships.
Recognizes group interactions and modifies one's own communication style to suit different situations and audiences.
Seeks to understand current and future needs of relevant stakeholders and customizes services to better address them.
Approaches problems from different angles; Identifies new possibilities to interpret opportunities and develop concrete solutions.
Provides ongoing support and coaching in a constructive manner to increase employees' effectiveness.
Engages regularly in formal and informal dialogue about quality; directly addresses quality issues promptly.
Applies various learning experiences by looking beyond symptoms to uncover underlying causes of problems and identifies ways to resolve them.
Understands all aspects of providing a safe environment and performs routine safety checks to prevent safety hazards occurring.
Demonstrates a sense of ownership, focusing on and driving critical issues to closure.
Applies understanding of the departmental work to effectively manage resources for a department/area.
Demonstrates strong understanding of the information or data to identify and elevate opportunities.
Proactively identifies new ideas/opportunities from multiple sources or methods to improve processes beyond conventional approaches.
Demonstrates an enthusiasm for learning new technologies, tools, and procedures to address short-term challenges.
Views difficult situations and/or problems as opportunities for improvement; actively embraces change instead of emphasizing negative elements.

Responsibilities

Reviews drug orders and/or prescriptions to ensure the safe, appropriate and cost-effective use of medications.
Provides outstanding patient care by optimizing medication preparation and resolving medication-related problems.
Prepares and dispenses medications, provides drug information and manages medication therapy in accordance with federal, state and local regulations and hospital policy.
Supervises the activities of assigned support personnel and verifying the accuracy and appropriateness of all medications prepared by support personnel prior to dispensing to patients or dispensing to healthcare providers for administration to patients.
Provides leadership in optimal product preparation and dosing of medications, and provision of patient specific drug information to include patient specific dosing.
Aides in the prevention and reporting of medication errors and adverse drug reactions according to policy.
Supports quality relationships with health care professionals, families, and patients.
Is actively involved in being further educated and providing education in all appropriate ways.
Day to day staffing duties which includes outpatient clinic infusions and inpatient TPN.
Requires sterile medication preparation and dispensing, providing drug information, working with clinic infusion nursing and the billing team to troubleshoot drug approvals and therapy plan updates.