Clinical Pharmacist, Inpatient

Title: Clinical Pharmacist, Inpatient

Department Org: Pharmacy - 110130

Employee Classification: J1 - Salaried Full Time HSC

Bargaining Unit: Professional Staff Association

Primary Location: HSC H

Shift: 2

Float: True

Rotate: True

On Call: True

Travel: False

Weekend/Holiday: True

Job Description

Clinical Pharmacists are responsible and accountable for the provision of safe, effective, and prompt medication therapy.

Through various assignments within the department, they provide support of centralized and decentralized medication-use systems as well as deliver optimal medication therapy to patients with a broad range of disease states.

Clinical Pharmacists proficiently provide direct patient-centered care and integrated pharmacy operational services in a decentralized practice setting with physicians, nurses, and other hospital personnel.

In these clinical roles, Clinical Pharmacists participate in all necessary aspects of the medication-use system while providing comprehensive and individualized pharmaceutical care to the patients in their assigned areas.

Pharmaceutical care services include but are not limited to assessing patient needs, incorporating age and disease specific characteristics into drug therapy and patient education, adjusting care according to patient response, and providing clinical interventions to detect, mitigate, and prevent medication adverse events.

Clinical Pharmacists serve as departmental resources and liaisons to other departments, hospital personnel, or external groups.

They also conduct clinical research and practice advancement projects as well as patient care quality and regulatory compliance initiatives designed to improve medication-use processes or pharmacy practice.

Clinical Pharmacists provide medication and practice-related education/training and actively serve as preceptors for Doctor of Pharmacy Students and pharmacy residents.

All Employees Must Always Adhere to the Following

• Employees are always expected to adhere to UTMC Service Values including iCare standards.

• Adheres to hospital policies and procedures as well as addresses patient safety, performance improvement, and quality of care issues

• Employees are knowledgeable about patient safety and quality of care issues.

Able to recognize safety issues in the department and handles incidents by institutional and/or departmental policies and procedures. If safety issues were identified, all issues were handled timely and appropriately.

• Employees attend and follow all department specific safety education and training to create a safe work environment.

1. Clinical

Delivers direct patient care and clinical practice, including decentralized and

Service-based Programs

• Maintains proficiency in pharmacy services and clinical pharmacy programs
• Works as an active member of multidisciplinary team and collaborates with healthcare providers within patient care areas to provide patient-centered care

• Identifies high-risk patients and implements interventions to improve quality and safety

• Makes appropriate evidence-based, patient-centered medication recommendations
• Participates in the management of medical emergencies
• Provides discharge medication review, reconciliation, and counseling as appropriate

Provides pharmaceutical services throughout the medical center:

Maintains proficiency in hospital computer systems and medication ordering systems

• Provides accurate, safe, timely, and appropriate medication therapy based on patient age and needs

• Completes critical patient monitoring and reviews patient profile/chart to identify, prevent, or mitigate drug-related problems, improper drug or dose selection, sub therapeutic dosage, over dosage, adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, failure to receive drugs, untreated indications, medication use without an indication, and treatment failures

• Communicates effectively and appropriately with healthcare providers and caregivers (physicians, nurses, etc.) and assures continuity of pharmaceutical care between shifts and among staff

• Actively participates in stewardship activities and restricted medication programs

2. Leadership

• Performs alternate leader responsibilities/duties as assigned in the absence of the pharmacy manager (leader).

Leads assigned patient service lines, clinical areas, and therapeutic programs:

• Facilitates pharmaceutical care services, direct patient care programs, medication utilization systems within assigned services and care areas to assure drug utilization activities are aligned with patient care needs, evidence-based best practices, and regulatory standards

• Designs and implements stewardship activities and restriction/ surveillance programs

• Tracks and evaluates assigned pharmacy programs for operational, quality, and financial efficiency and routinely benchmarks against local and national best practices

• Actively identifies practice related issues which require evaluation and facilitate clinical research projects, quality improvement initiatives, or healthcare provider education as needed to advance practice

• Develops and oversees policies and procedures for drug purchasing, drug usage, drug distribution, and drug control

• Assures pharmacy is an integral part of the health-care delivery system and facilitates enhancement and expansion of pharmacy services/programs

3. Dispensing

Participates in pharmacy operations and medication dispensing:

• Maintains proficiency in and actively engages in operational programs, central dispensing pharmacies, satellite dispensing pharmacies, and specialty pharmacy areas as appropriate for job assignments

• Facilitates specialty medication procurement, ordering, and dispensing procedures including but not limited to chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, controlled substances, etc. as appropriate for assignment Oversee pharmacy operations and technician practice/activities

4. Educational

Facilitates experiential education and practice advancement:

• Maintains proficiency in preceptor roles and actively emulates education/mentorship skills

• Develops student, resident, and staff training experiences/competencies and creates new relationships for teaching and training opportunities

• Identifies, designs, and implements improvements in the medication-use system to advance patient safety, maximize therapeutic outcomes, or control costs

5. Other Responsibilities

• Utilizes effective communication to provide excellent customer services.
• Actively participates in performance improvement activities as it relates to job duties.

• Demonstrates effective and culturally appropriate communications.
• Performs all other duties as requested by direct supervisor, department or senior leadership

• When necessary, may assist in instructing didactic classroom instruction for the University of Toledo

• All other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Education/experience/licensing

• PharmD degree from an ACPE-accredited College of Pharmacy or 5 years clinical experience preferred.

• Formal clinical training through a PGY1 and/or PGY2 residency, fellowship, or 3 years of applicable clinical practice (setting dependent on specialty) preferred.

• Must hold current and unrestricted Ohio Pharmacist License.
• BLS and ACLS Certification.
• This position requires a flexible schedule due to operational needs of the department.

• Board certification preferred.
• As determined by the Pharmacy Manger, for those clinical pharmacist positions required to work under a consult agreement, credentialing and board certification is required within 3 years of employment.

• Must become an ASHP PGY1 residency preceptor upon eligibility.

Communication and Other Skills

• Experience in providing written and oral drug information with excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Analyze data, interpret policies, procedures and regulations, develop appropriate conclusions, and prepare reports.

• Knowledge of contemporary hospital/clinical practice and service.
• Significant knowledge and expertise in advanced pharmacy practice, and specialty evidence-based medicine in area appropriate for clinical assignments.

• Self-directed, motivated and capable of leading supportive personnel.
• Possess the ability to resolve conflicts and respond appropriately to complaints.

• Able to work well with the public and other health professionals.
• Able to train, evaluate and supervise professional and technical personnel and staff.

• Demonstrate and utilize effective interpersonal and culturally appropriate communications.

Physical Requirements

• Visual acuity of 20/20 or corrected to 20/20 including color vision when applicable

• Ability to hear (with or without aides)
• Ability to orally communicate
• Good manual dexterity
• Ability to push, pull, roll, and transfer/lift 50 pounds occasionally
• Ability to stand, walk constantly
• Ability to bend, reach, stoop, kneel occasionally

Reporting Relationships

Reports directly to the Pharmacy Manager. Pharmacy technicians, students, residents and pharmacists at the Health Science Campus report to this position.

Working Conditions

Works in a professional office environment with possible high stress levels.

Preferred Qualifications

Conditions of Employment

To promote the highest levels of health and well-being, the University of Toledo campuses are tobacco-free. Pre-employment health screening requirements for the University of Toledo Health Science Campus Medical Center will include drug and other required health screenings for the position.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The University of Toledo is an equal opportunity employer. The University of Toledo does not discriminate in employment, educational programs, or activities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, ancestry, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, military or veteran status, disability, familial status, or political affiliation.

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