PGY1 Pharmacy Resident - Flagstaff

Northern Arizona Healthcare•Flagstaff, AZ

About The Position

Under the direction of the Pharmacy Residency Program Director, and in partnership with department leadership, Residency preceptors and clinical pharmacists, the post-graduate Pharmacy Resident participates in a post-graduate year one (PGY1) pharmacy residency program. Pharmacy Residents rotate through central dispensing as well as decentralized clinical areas including medical-surgical, total joint, behavioral health, pediatrics, woman and infant, surgery, and critical care departments. The resident performs all duties associated with the staff pharmacist position within the scope of licensure. Responsibilities include a pharmacokinetic dosing consult service, total parenteral nutrition management, antimicrobial stewardship, renal dosing, anticoagulation monitoring, pharmacotherapy recommendations, drug information, and direct patient education. Residents are also highly involved in quality improvement and clinical projects and are active members of the patient care team. Emphasis is placed on ensuring growth of the resident toward independent practice to ensure patients receive optimal, safe, and cost-effective medication therapy by applying an evidenced-based approach. These outcomes are achieved via the completion of specific goals and objectives designed to develop and assess the resident's knowledge, skills, and abilities. While training the Resident provides Clinical Pharmacist services, including: interdisciplinary patient care rounds, medication reconciliation, medication therapy monitoring, medication orders management, patient education, drug information, drug dosing, and various scholarly activities. Pharmacy services are provided to patients from neonatal, infant, child, adolescent, adult and geriatric age groups. Residents gain experience working as autonomous pharmacists within the pharmacy team by providing longitudinal oversight of medication order review, verification, and preparation, all while delivering comprehensive clinical pharmacy services. Through a range of experiences, the PGY1 resident develops independent practice and pharmacy leadership skills.

Requirements

Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an accredited college of pharmacy by first day of employment - Required
Arizona State Board of Pharmacy Pharmacist license eligible and obtained by Oct 1st of the Residency Year
ACLS (or to be certified within 6 months of hire)
PALS (or to be certified within 6 months of hire)
Healthcare is a rapidly changing environment and technology is integrated into almost all aspects of patient care. Computers and other electronic devices are utilized across the organization and throughout each department. Colleagues must have an understanding of computers, and competence in using computers and basic software programs.

Nice To Haves

Three or more Acute Care APPE Rotations – Preferred
Prior Acute Care Pharmacy-Related Work Experience - Preferred

Responsibilities

Performs clinical services to optimize drug therapy and documents clinical interventions.
Provides medication therapy management using medication-related protocols including pharmacokinetics, parenteral nutrition, and other therapeutic drug monitoring by utilizing clinical software and assessing relevant information.
Advises physicians on use of formulary medications and suggests alternative therapeutic options.
Provides accurate, clinically relevant drug information to physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals.
Participates in code arrest response by providing information and assuring availability of medications.
Participates in Interdisciplinary rounding when applicable to the current rotation.
Identifies, prevents, and investigates potential and real adverse drug reactions and medication errors.
Provides information required for drug related patient counseling.
Reviews and interprets physician orders properly; screens for incompatibilities, interactions, duplicates, or contraindications.
Contacts nursing personnel and/or prescriber regarding any questions on drug orders.
Dispenses and labels medication orders, including oral medications and IV solutions.
Competent using various pharmacy technology products such as electronic health records, automated dispensing machines, compounders, unit dosing, tube system, and clinical decision support/data mining tools.
Processes patient charges and credits.
Assists in maintaining basic drug supply from vendors.
Exercises applicable legal and professional controls on controlled substances.
Verifies physical inventory for incoming/outgoing items.
Documents waste from returned/expired/unusable controlled substances properly.
Supervises and is responsible for oversight of supportive personnel, licensed and non-licensed, and organizes/directs as needed.
Reports adverse drug reactions, medication errors, and good catches.
Assist with the precepting and evaluation of student pharmacists on rotation.
Educates medical, nursing, and/or pharmacy staff as it relates to research or quality projects.
Serves on designated intra- and inter-departmental committees to improve patient care.
Adheres to regulatory and organizational standards affecting patient care and safety as well as all hospital and departmental policies and procedures. Practices in a safe and cost effective manner.
Stays current and complies with state and federal regulations/statutes and company policies that impact the employees area of responsibility.
Ensures all certifications and/or licenses are up-to-date and valid prior to expiration dates.
Completes all company mandatory modules and required job specific training in the specified time frame.
Responsible for reporting any safety related incident in a timely fashion through the Midas/RDE tool; attends all safety related training programs; performs work in a safe manner; monitors work environment for possible safety issues and ensures others are also performing work in a safe manner.