Patient Care Pharmacist - NICU

Overview:

Works with multidisciplinary patient care team and patient/caregivers to provide optimal pharmaceutical care. Provides age‑appropriate care to patients from the age of birth through 21 years and select adult patient populations.

Works with multidisciplinary patient care team and patient/caregivers to provide optimal pharmaceutical care. Provides age‑appropriate care to patients from the age of birth through 21 years and select adult patient populations.

• Serves as a pharmacotherapy expert to prospectively recommend and evaluate individualized drug therapy. Provides therapeutic drug monitoring and recommends evidence‑based patient‑specific actions to achieve best outcomes, while considering pharmacoeconomic principles. Prospectively identifies potential adverse drug reactions, drug‑drug, drug‑disease, and drug‑food interactions, and incompatibilities affecting patient outcomes.
• Verifies medication orders to assure timely and accurate delivery in a form appropriate for the patient. Helps to operationalize recommendations through order verification as needed. Documents direct patient care, clinical, operational, financial outcomes, and activities appropriately in the medical record.
• Dispenses medications pursuant to prescriber orders. Determines appropriateness of medication orders using information such as patient age, weight, disease state(s), and pertinent past medical history. Reviews all possible adverse drug events and considers patient allergies. Contacts prescribing practitioner as needed to resolve findings.
• Demonstrates competency in all pertinent areas of clinical pharmacy practice. Completes medication reconciliation, provides patient education, and serves as a drug information resource. Participates in the development and coordination of patient‑specific teaching and transitional care services.
• Delivers appropriate handoff for pharmacists and other healthcare providers to follow up on anticipated pharmacotherapy needs. Collaborates with other members of the pharmacy team to assure continuity of care and consistency of practice.
• Provides in‑service training, precepts, and supervises as needed. Incorporates appropriate oversight and input in performance evaluations. Participates in committees related to medication safety and quality improvement initiatives and demonstrates pharmacy practice leadership.

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college of pharmacy, required.
• Doctor of Pharmacy, preferred.

Licensure, or licensure‑eligibility, to practice pharmacy in the state of Ohio, required.

Board certification, preferred.

• Clinical competency as evaluated by hiring manager through an independent self‑case and/or case presentation in pharmacy.
• Basic skills in using and documenting in an electronic medical record.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Aptitude for detail and medication safety skills.

• Post graduate year 1 (PGY‑1) or 3 years of hospital pharmacist practice experience (pediatrics preferred), with responsibility for direct clinical patient care similar to that provided through a PGY1 Residency, required.
• Previous Nationwide Children’s pharmacy interns require 2 years of hospital pharmacy practice experience.

OCCASIONALLY:
Biohazard waste, Blood and/or Bodily Fluids, Lifting / Carrying: 0‑10 lbs, Pushing / Pulling: 0‑25 lbs, Reaching above shoulder, Standing, Walking

FREQUENTLY:
Communicable Diseases and/or Pathogens, Interpreting Data, Sitting

CONTINUOUSLY:
Audible speech, Chemicals/Medications, Color vision, Computer skills, Decision Making, Depth perception, Flexing/extending of neck, Hand use: grasping, gripping, turning, Hearing acuity, Peripheral vision, Problem solving, Repetitive hand/arm use, Seeing – Far/near

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EOE M/F/Disability/Vet