Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Hematology​/Oncology

Overview

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Hematology

The Pharmacy Division is dedicated to ensuring safe, effective, and cost-conscious medication use while collaborating with healthcare professionals to achieve optimal drug therapy outcomes. Through innovative programs in patient care, research, and education, the division leads in delivering premier, patient-centered care. Embracing change and discovery, it leverages new technologies, maximizes resources, and fosters a culture of caring to continuously enhance the quality of pharmaceutical services.

Ideal candidate will have a Doctorate of Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice Residency (PGY
1) and Residency in the area of specialization (PGY
2).

• Develops and/or maintains an active clinical pharmacy practice on the assigned service(s), actively participates in inpatient rounds and/or outpatient clinic coverage, including on-call and weekend coverage as assigned.
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary healthcare team to optimize the pharmacotherapeutic aspects of patient care.
• Manages the medication therapy of individual patients (in collaboration with the healthcare team); develops, recommends, implements, monitors, and redesigns drug therapy regimens to optimize therapy; performs these tasks within the position/professional scope of practice and institutional and department policy and procedures.
• Manages daily patient medication problems and emergency situations as they arise and documents activities in the electronic health record appropriately (interventions, notes, handoffs, etc).
• Provides timely follow-up on the clinical effects of the medication regimen with adjustments as necessary to achieve optimal outcomes and documents actions.
• Provides drug and clinical information to other healthcare professionals.
• Develops and communicates specific pharmacotherapeutic plans for individual patients.
• Provides accurate and timely medication reconciliation and updates of medication list.
• Identifies and intervenes appropriately to resolve potential medication problems of all assigned patients.
• Evaluates and provides recommendations on pharmacokinetic or nutrition consults as applicable.
• Participates in discharge planning for assigned inpatients.
• Proactively assesses patient's financial status and addresses barriers.
• Appropriately participates in and guides medical staff to comply with institutional standards, initiatives, and guidelines (ABN's, prior authorization requirements, reimbursement optimization, formulary management, REMS programs, drug shortage programs).

• Provides effective medication and practice-related education or counseling to patients and caregivers.
• Provides accurate and timely medication, treatment guidelines, formulary, and other pertinent information to members of the healthcare team.
• Demonstrates a desire and an aptitude for teaching that includes mastery of the four preceptor roles when teaching clinical problem solving (instructing, modeling, coaching, and facilitating) to trainees.
• Demonstrates the ability to provide comprehensive and constructive criteria-based feedback and evaluation of resident/student performance including an assessment, identification of opportunities for improvements and an actionable plan.
• Serves as an effective preceptor for resident, student, and other trainee clinical learning experiences.
• Effectively precepts other trainee-required experiences including oncology forum, research projects, grand rounds, MUEs, etc.
• Collaborates with student and residency leadership to coordinate individual learning experiences.
• Attends and actively participates in trainee learning activities including grand rounds, student presentations, pharmacy pearls, journal club, grand rounds workshops, etc.
• Provides didactic lectures, in-services, shared student instruction or attends case conference presentations to trainees.
• Models professional behavior to orient, mentor, and train new clinical staff on patient care services, policy and procedures, and normal operating procedures (in collaboration with the Clinical Manager).

• Appropriately uses technology to…