Pharmacist - WCMC Pharmacy - Per Diem - 8 Hour - Variable
About The Position
Pharmacists promote effective and safe medication use by verifying medication orders and assessing drug selection, dosage regimens, administration, and therapy monitoring. They work with patients, families, and healthcare providers to maintain continuity of care and achieve desired outcomes through safe, timely, and cost-effective drug therapy. Pharmacists supervise pharmacy technicians and may assume pharmacy management responsibilities in a manager’s absence. They lead pharmacy services in a clinical or operational area, providing expertise and oversight to that area and its staff. Ambulatory care pharmacists work with patients and healthcare providers to support safe and effective medication use. They perform comprehensive medication reviews; adjust and order medications under collaborative practice agreements; identify and deprescribe unnecessary or harmful medications; provide extensive patient education; and offer clinical expertise in the Refill Clinic. The listed clinics include Palliative Care, Comprehensive Care Clinic (Internal Medicine), Anticoagulation Clinic, and Refill Clinic. This is a per-diem pharmacist position with variable shifts, eight hours per workday, and variable days worked per week. The listed pay range is $91.56–$123.60 per hour. Offer amounts depend on demonstrated or relevant experience and/or licensure; pay may be adjusted to the local market for hires outside the Bay Area.
Requirements
- Graduate from a School of Pharmacy accredited by ACPE.
- California Registered Pharmacist (RPH) license required.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association required.
- For Informatics Pharmacy only: ASHP-accredited residency in Information Technology required.
- For Informatics Pharmacy only: at least two years of clinical experience in a hospital setting or recent experience with hospital clinical information technology and pharmacy informatics knowledge required.
- For Informatics Pharmacy only: well-developed written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills; understanding of pharmacy distribution and workflow; knowledge of hospital clinical and ancillary services and their interrelationships; ability to manage projects, meet deadlines, and maintain effective working relationships with hospital staff and physicians; and competency with PC hardware and software.
Nice To Haves
- Completion of an ASHP-accredited General Practice Residency (PGY1).
- Healthcare acute-care experience.
- For Oncology Pharmacy: experience in hematology/oncology; basic knowledge of solid tumors, hematology, and common treatments; ability to educate, monitor, order, and follow laboratory tests for chemotherapy patients; and prior inpatient, infusion-center, or oncology-pharmacy experience.
- For Pediatric Pharmacy: completion of a PGY-1 residency that included pediatric and neonatal pharmacy services, or prior experience in pediatric and neonatal pharmacy services; and ability to educate, monitor, order, and follow laboratory tests for pediatric and neonatal patients.
- For Critical Care Pharmacy: completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY1 residency; completion of an ASHP-accredited Critical Care PGY2 residency or critical-care experience; Critical Care Board Certification (BCCCP) or critical-care experience; and strong knowledge of critical-care medicine and therapeutics.
- For Ambulatory Care Pharmacy: basic knowledge of chronic diseases and common treatments; ability to educate, monitor, order, and follow laboratory tests for medications related to disease-state management; prior ambulatory-care clinic and disease-state management experience; and willingness to work in all ambulatory-care clinic settings.
- Advanced Practice Pharmacist (APh) license.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification from the American Heart Association; required by 03/31/2020 for staff working unit-based shifts.
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification from the American Heart Association for staff working pediatric unit-based shifts and emergency department unit-based shifts.
Responsibilities
- Verify medication orders and assess drug selection, dosage regimens, administration, and medication therapy monitoring.
- Support safe, timely, and cost-effective drug therapy and continuity of services by working with patients, families, and healthcare providers.
- Supervise pharmacy technicians and, when required, assume essential pharmacy management responsibilities in a manager’s absence.
- Lead pharmacy services in a clinical or operational area and provide expertise and oversight to the area and its staff.
- For ambulatory care: complete comprehensive medication reviews; adjust and order medications under collaborative practice agreements; identify and deprescribe unnecessary or harmful medications; educate patients; and provide clinical expertise in the Refill Clinic.
- For applicable specialty assignments, perform duties such as educating and monitoring patients, ordering and following laboratory tests, and rotating among pharmacy areas or clinics as specified in the posting.
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