Pharmacy Clinician I - Inpatient; On-Call, MMMC

Kaiser Permanente • Wailuku, HI

121d

About The Position

The position involves providing pharmaceutical care by performing various patient-focused clinical, educational, informative, and distributive functions in inpatient and/or home infusion settings. As an interdisciplinary team member, the role supports patients, providers, and ancillary staff, ensuring appropriate and cost-effective drug utilization while enhancing patient care.

Responsibilities

• Prepares and dispenses medications using appropriate techniques and applicable policies and procedures.
• Researches and organizes patient-specific information.
• Documents patient medication histories.
• Recommends or reviews laboratory tests.
• Identifies medication therapy problems as appropriate.
• Analyzes requestors drug information need and formulates response.
• Follows up consistently on drug information recommendations and assesses effectiveness.
• Participates in monitoring and improving relevant outcome measures and/or quality improvement indicators.
• Designs and recommends pharmacotherapeutic regimens and corresponding monitoring plans.
• Utilizes patient interview/assessment skills and current literature-supported evidence and practices.
• Integrates patient-specific disease and drug information, current practice standards, ethical issues, and quality-of-life issues, and pharmacoeconomic principles.
• Monitors data and modifies pharmacotherapeutic plans as necessary.
• Documents pharmaceutical care activities in patients medical records or clinical information system.
• Designs effective medication-use education for patients and caregivers.
• Provides one-on-one counseling to patients and caregivers.
• Provides patient-specific verbal or written consultations, including pharmacotherapy and pharmacokinetic, to healthcare practitioners.
• May perform limited physical examinations (e.g., blood pressure and glucose measurement).
• Balances cost and quality issues.
• Participates in Regional medication management and formulary education programs to promote appropriate, cost-effective prescribing.
• Participates in task forces, lecture programs, and skills certification.
• Participates in didactic or clerkship education of pharmacy students.
• Participates in development and/or implementation of regional drug initiatives or other formulary management activities.
• Collaborates with inpatient/outpatient pharmacist or established Regional disease management programs for follow-up with high-risk discharges.
• Participates in designing, reviewing, monitoring, or researching clinical drug trials as needed.

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