Pharmacy Clinical Coordinator for Education

Arkansas Children's Hospital Northwest • Little Rock, AR

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Pharmacy Coordinator provides clinical and educational services to patients and other healthcare providers in a specific practice area and acts as a resource for staff pharmacists with problems related to patient medication therapy. This person also functions as a liaison with medical and nursing staff on medication related issues and assists other department managers in optimizing overall provision of service to patients.

Requirements

• Doctorate of Pharmacy or Bachelor of Pharmacy (if obtained prior to 2000)
• Pharmacy - 2 years of experience or Residency trained
• Pharmacist - AR State Board of Pharmacy

Nice To Haves

• Doctorate
• Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) - Board of Pharmacy Specialities

Responsibilities

• Works with Director and others to plan, implement, analyze, monitor and maintain a safe and effective medication use process.
• Develops and maintains competency with hospital computer system to enable identification of safety issues and assist other health care professionals in safe use of the system.
• Uses Safety Tracker to report interventions and medication occurrences. Uses other documentation systems as requested.
• Provides clinical and educational services such as rounding, drug information, patient education and optimization of drug therapy to patients and other health care professionals in selected practice site.
• Serves as consultant to pharmacists and department in areas of clinical service. Assists pharmacists in resolving problems related to physician orders, therapy, medication preparation and P&T Committee requirements.
• Acts as a liaison between Pharmacy and medical and nursing staff on issues pertaining to clinical services or other pharmacy issues.
• Educates pharmacists and other healthcare providers in areas of pediatric drug therapy through in-services, presentations, written educational ,materials and other methods. Two CE programs a year for pharmacists are required.
• Participates in training of pharmacy students and residents. Acts as preceptor as needed or requested.
• Substitutes as staff pharmacist and assists with distributive workload as requested by managers.
• Assists in analysis, planning and implementation of new or revised services.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree