Clinical Pharmacist Specialist

Summary Job Description: Clinical Pharmacist Specialist – Emergency Department Full-time, hours may vary Job Description Clinical Pharmacist Specialists are responsible and accountable for the provision of safe, effective, and timely medication therapy.

Through various assignments within the department, they support centralized and decentralized medication use systems while delivering optimal pharmacotherapy to patients within their specialty area.

All pharmacists are responsible for medication preparation and distribution; evaluating, entering, and verifying medication orders; serving as a drug information resource for providers and other healthcare professionals; monitoring and managing medication regimens through protocols and consult services; and maintaining pharmacy inventory. Job

Duties

Provide safe, effective, and timely medication therapy for patients in the emergency department. Deliver clinical pharmacy services through both centralized and decentralized medication use systems. Provide both verbal and written consultation regarding medication therapy.

Provide medication-related education to patients, physicians, nurses, and other members of the healthcare team as requested.

Initiate, document, and participate in activities that promote positive patient outcomes, including medication use evaluations (MUEs), adverse drug event reporting, therapeutic drug monitoring, resolution of drug therapy questions, identification of drug interactions and allergies, clarification of complex medication orders, and review of non-formulary medication requests.

Review, verify, and enter medication orders for appropriateness, including drug selection, dosing, route, frequency, allergies, interactions, contraindications, therapeutic duplication, and compliance with institutional policies.

Monitor and manage medication regimens according to approved protocols, consults, and collaborative clinical practice standards.

Serve as the emergency medicine medication expert for high-acuity therapies, including procedural sedation agents, vasoactive medications, analgesics, neuromuscular blockers, thrombolytics, reversal agents, and other high-risk medications.

Respond to medical emergencies throughout the hospital, including Code Blues, stroke alerts, trauma activation, sepsis alerts, rapid response events, and other urgent clinical situations.

Assist with procedural sedations and rapid sequence intubations to ensure safe and accurate medication preparation and administration. Support nursing staff in the safe use of programmable infusion pumps and other medication delivery technologies within the emergency department.

Ensure antimicrobial stewardship activities and opportunities are communicated with emergency department practitioners to optimize antimicrobial utilization, reduce inappropriate antibiotic use, and minimize antimicrobial resistance.

Participate in opioid stewardship initiatives, quality improvement activities, and medication-related process improvement efforts. Support medication preparation, dispensing, distribution, and inventory management, including compliance with USP <795>, <797>, and <800> standards.

Participate in formulary management, medication policy development, automated dispensing cabinet optimization, and medication-use process improvement initiatives. Required Education and Training Graduate of an accredited College of Pharmacy; PharmD preferred. Current, active Kentucky pharmacist license.

Minimum of three years of relevant job-related experience, or completion of a PGY-1 or PGY-2 ASHP-accredited pharmacy residency in the applicable area of practice in lieu of additional experience. ACLS certification required within six months of hire.

Relevant (BCEMP, BCPS, or BCCCP) board certification required within one year of hire. Demonstrated competency in emergency medicine pharmacotherapy, emergency response medication management, procedural sedation, and protocol-based clinical monitoring.

Preferred Education and Experience Completion of a PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency. Completion of a PGY-2 Emergency Medicine or Critical Care Pharmacy Residency preferred. Prior experience in an emergency department or other high-acuity hospital practice setting.

Experience participating in multidisciplinary emergency department practice and hospital emergency response teams.

Advanced training or experience in emergency medicine pharmacotherapy, trauma care, toxicology, procedural sedation, thrombolytic therapy, high-risk medication management, and emergency response operations.

Benefits Tuition Assistance reimbursement program Paid Time Off available for use upon hire Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave Bereavement Leave (includes pets) Employee Assistance Program Retirement plans with company match Work Experience Education If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now!

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves.

The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana.

Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.

Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement

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Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

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