Clinical Pharmacist Specialist - Critical Care

Overview

Clinical Pharmacist Specialist – Critical Care Service Line

Tri Health is seeking a dedicated Clinical Pharmacist Specialist to support the Critical Care Service Line at Bethesda North Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. This full-time, day-shift position offers a key role on the interdisciplinary critical care team, delivering direct, patient-centered care to critically ill patients.

Location: Bethesda North Hospital, 10500 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, OH 45242

Work Hours: Full time, 80 hours bi-weekly;
Day Shift;
Weekend and Holiday rotation

• Assures pharmacy is an integral part of the health-care delivery system, leading assigned patient service lines, clinical areas, and therapeutic programs; facilitates pharmaceutical care services, direct patient care programs, and medication utilization systems. Designs and implements stewardship activities and restriction/surveillance programs. Tracks and evaluates assigned pharmacy programs for operational, quality, and financial efficiency; benchmarks against local and national best practices and identifies practice-related issues.
  
  Develops and oversees policies and procedures.
• Delivers direct patient care and clinical practice, including decentralized and service-based programs; maintains proficiency in decentralized pharmacy services and clinical pharmacy programs. Actively participates in multidisciplinary teams to provide patient-centered care, identifies high-risk patients, implements interventions, and provides discharge medication review, reconciliation, and counseling as appropriate. Participates in the management of medical emergencies.
• Provides pharmaceutical services throughout the medical center, maintains proficiency in hospital computer systems and medication ordering systems; ensures safe, timely, and appropriate medication therapy. Performs critical patient monitoring, reviews patient profiles/charts to identify, prevent, or mitigate drug-related problems, and communicates effectively with healthcare providers and caregivers. Contributes to education and competency evaluation within the department.
• Participates in pharmacy operations and medication dispensing; maintains proficiency in central and satellite dispensing pharmacies and specialty pharmacy areas; facilitates specialty medication procurement, ordering, and dispensing procedures (e.g., chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, controlled substances) as appropriate. Oversees pharmacy operations and technician activities.
• Supports experiential education and practice advancement; maintains preceptor roles and mentorship skills. Develops student, resident, and staff training experiences/competencies and fosters teaching opportunities. Identifies and implements improvements in the medication-use system to enhance patient safety, maximize therapeutic outcomes, and control costs.
• Communicates relevant information to other department members and assumes responsibility for professional development, particularly in ongoing clinical education.

• Bachelor's degree in pharmacy;
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  D or Bachelor’s of Science with equivalent decentralized hospital pharmacy experience (3 years) OR accredited PGY-1/PGY-2 residency
• Pharmacist, Ohio Board of Pharmacy Licensure
• Clinical mastery in the dedicated area of pharmacy practice consistent with the job posting
• 1–2 years of clinical pharmacy practice experience consistent with the job posting
• 1–2 years of clinical pharmacy experience with completion of ASHP-accredited PGY1 residency or Board Certification in a related area of practice

• Strong interpersonal, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse multidisciplinary teams
• Ability to educate, instruct, and train pharmacists to a higher level of practice

• Climbing - Rarely
• Concentrating - Consistently
• Continuous Learning - Consistently
• Hearing:
  Conversation - Consistently
• Hearing:
  Other Sounds - Consistently
• Interpersonal Communication - Consistently
• Kneeling - Rarely
• Lifting < 10 Lbs - Rarely
• Lifting 50+ Lbs - Rarely
• Lifting 11-50 Lbs - Rarely
• Pulling - Occasionally
• Pushing - Rarely
• Reaching - Rarely
• Reading - Consistently
• Sitting - Frequently
• Standing - Frequently
• Stooping - Occasionally
• Talking - Consistently
• Thinking/Reasoning - Consistently
• Use of Hands - Consistently
• Color Vision - Frequently
• Visual Acuity:
  Far - Frequently
• Visual Acuity:
  Near - Consistently
• Walking - Frequently

Job keywords: Clinical Pharmacist, Hospital Pharmacist, Informatics Pharmacist, Pharm

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