Pharmacist

Lake Health District•Lakeview, OR

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The Clinical Pharmacist is responsible for the provision of safe, effective, and prompt medication therapy to District patients. Provide support of medication-use systems and deliver optimal medication therapy to patients with a broad range of disease states, provide direct patient care in coordination with physicians, nurses, and other hospital personnel. These clinicians are aligned with interdisciplinary programs and specialty services to deliver medication therapy and to ensure pharmaceutical care programs are appropriately integrated throughout the hospital. Participate in all necessary aspects of the medication-use system while providing comprehensive and individualized pharmaceutical care to patients. Pharmaceutical care services include assessing patient needs, incorporating age and disease specific characteristics into drug therapy and patient education, adjusting care according to patient response, and providing clinical interventions to detect, mitigate, and prevent medication adverse events. Serve as departmental resources to other departments, District personnel, or external groups as well as conduct patient care quality and regulatory compliance initiatives designed to improve medication-use processes or pharmacy practice. Provide medication and practice-related education/training. Participation in the quality management program is expected with the goal of improving pharmacy services. Responsibilities may include working to establish and maintain long and short term goals for the Quality Management Program; monitoring and documenting Quality Improvement Projects for progress in meeting QI goals; and providing guidance and education to staff on Quality Management projects.

Requirements

Graduate of an ACPE accredited College of Pharmacy.
Licensed (or eligible for licensure) in the state of Oregon.
Clinical pharmacy experience in a hospital setting preferred.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
Successful completion of 500-hour probationary period.
Criminal background check and pre-employment drug screen required upon conditional job offer.

Nice To Haves

Clinical pharmacy experience in a hospital setting

Responsibilities

Provision of safe, effective, and prompt medication therapy to District patients.
Support of medication-use systems and delivery of optimal medication therapy to patients with a broad range of disease states.
Provide direct patient care in coordination with physicians, nurses, and other hospital personnel.
Deliver medication therapy aligned with interdisciplinary programs and specialty services.
Ensure pharmaceutical care programs are appropriately integrated throughout the hospital.
Participate in all necessary aspects of the medication-use system.
Provide comprehensive and individualized pharmaceutical care to patients.
Assess patient needs, incorporate age and disease specific characteristics into drug therapy and patient education.
Adjust care according to patient response.
Provide clinical interventions to detect, mitigate, and prevent medication adverse events.
Serve as departmental resources to other departments, District personnel, or external groups.
Conduct patient care quality and regulatory compliance initiatives designed to improve medication-use processes or pharmacy practice.
Provide medication and practice-related education/training.
Participate in the quality management program with the goal of improving pharmacy services.
Work to establish and maintain long and short term goals for the Quality Management Program.
Monitor and document Quality Improvement Projects for progress in meeting QI goals.
Provide guidance and education to staff on Quality Management projects.