Clinical pharmacist h1.location_city

Description

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• Serves as a drug information expert and resource regarding medication management.
• Provides comprehensive decentralized or pharmacy clinical services including, but not limited to, anticoagulation management/monitoring, pharmacokinetic dosing, renal dosing, and nutritional support services.
• Participates in antimicrobial stewardship and opioid stewardship.
• Provides medication counseling to patients.
• Works with inter-professional patient care teams to help patients with transitions to care, including=but not limited to helping prepare patients for discharge.
• Serves as an active member of the inter-professional team on patient care units. Participates in unitbased huddles and activities if available. Knowledgeable in unit’s metrics, goals, and works with staff on unit to help achieve goals.
• Interprets and reviews medication orders for correct drug, dosage, route, frequency, allergies, therapeutic duplication, interactions, contraindications, and potential adverse events for all ages served.
• Ensure drugs are available to patients at the time they are needed to avoid delays in therapy and promote positive patient outcome.
• Oversees dispensing and reconciliation of medications including controlled substances, management of expiration dates and drug recalls.
• Performs medication reconciliation for patients.
• Provides technician oversight and assumes the role of supervisor in routine daily activities.
• Supervises/performs production of compounded products (sterile and nonsterile, hazardous and nonhazardous) for first doses, scheduled deliveries, and batched products.
• Demonstrates supervisory skills necessary to plan, organize, and direct activities in the pharmacy in a cost-effective manner.
• Assists in the orientation and training of pharmacists, technicians, students, and residents; aids in performing competencies on staff (new hire and annual) as requested by manager/director.
• Acts as preceptor for both students and residents as applicable
• Maintains knowledge of local, state, and federal regulations regarding pharmacy practice as well as
• knowledge of all applicable accrediting bodies medication management standards (e.g., the Joint Commission, HFAP, etc.).
• Effectively utilizes pharmaceutical references.
• Promotes formulary therapies to the medical staff, contacting providers with alternatives and using knowledge of medication formulary, current interchanges, and non-formulary medication processes to make appropriate recommendations.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree Pharmacy.
• Kentucky Board of Pharmacy license in good standing as applicable to practice site.
• 1-3 years related work experience or completion of ASHP accredited pharmacy residency program preferred.
• Must obtain ACLS (if required to attend codes) within 6 months.

Benefits:

• Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance
• Identity Theft Protection
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• PTO Sell Back Program
• Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation)
• Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial support
• Retirement with Company Match

Work Experience

Education

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