Clinical Pharmacist PICU

Clinical Pharmacist PICU

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The Clinical Pharmacist Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is a licensed Pharmacist responsible for ensuring optimal drug therapy by designing therapy, monitoring, and dispensing medications following standard operating procedures (SOPs), ACLS, PALS, and USP guidelines. Serves as medication expert. Directs the work of support staff including Pharmacy Technicians. Responsible for ensuring medication management abides by hospital, state, and federal requirements.

Manage the daily pharmacy workload within the Pediatric ICU and is also able to cross cover as the Pharmacist across all hospital departments and the Central Pharmacy as needed, and be proficient in the medication management of that population. Responsibilities also include but are not limited to: answering general drug questions, attendance on medical rounds, completion of nursing unit inspections, and identification of medication related issues.

May function as a Charge Pharmacist as needed.

• Verifies and checks prescriptions/orders adhering to safe medication dispensing practices.
• Reviews prescription order for accuracy and completion.
• Provides medication evaluation during verification, considering patient specific factors, potential for adverse drug reactions, and drug‑drug / drug‑disease interactions or equivalent.
• Assess and optimize drug therapy by designing medication therapies that meet the patient specific needs.
• Develop, review, assist and maintain, in collaboration with members of the Pediatric Intensive Care Department (and other departments as needed) various protocols and regimens as recommended by evidence‑based practice.
• Utilize the facility formulary whenever possible to ensure cost‑effective care.
• Provide drug information education to patient or patient’s caregiver as needed.
• Mentors and assists in training; includes but is not limited to:
  Pharmacists, Interns, residents, within the Pediatric ICU.
• Teach and instruct pharmacy and other multidisciplinary staff on relevant treatment populations such as ECMO, CRRT, parenteral nutrition and related critical care disease states including preparation, treatment, and ongoing monitoring of medications involved.
• Responsible for rounding with the Pediatric Intensive Care Team.
• Provide perpetual monitoring of assigned patients through chart investigation, discussion within the healthcare team (including but not limited to the patient, patients’ family members, other healthcare professionals), to identify potential for and/or remediation of drug therapy.
• Manage the daily pharmacy workload within the Pediatric ICU.
• Directly supervise the work of pharmacy staff throughout entirety of shift when applicable (technicians, students, residents, and/or interns) to ensure safe and accurate preparation, dispensing, and delivery of medications to meet patient care needs and both federal and state regulations.
• Knowledgeable of all standard operating procedures (SOPs) governing the work of pharmacy staff to mitigate harm to patients and staff.
• Accurately document the monitoring of medication, medication management, potential adverse drug reactions, and similar outcomes through interventions in the electronic health record.
• Includes but is not limited to: EPIC, Dose Edge, Omnicell.
• Maintains documentation that is compliant with state and federal drug control laws.
• Inspect medication storage and prep areas outside of the Pharmacy throughout the hospital monthly. Raise any concerns identified to Nurse leadership and Pharmacy leadership.
• Identifies medication or operational related issues that require remediation and escalates to direct manager.
• May contribute to the process of adding new Pediatric ICU therapies (medications, blood products, or similar therapies) and treatment modalities to formulary through involvement with the P&T committee via development of presentations, education, monographs.
• May function as a Charge Pharmacist as needed.
• Performs other job‑related duties as assigned.

• BS degree in Pharmacy

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