Inpatient Adult Acute Care Clinical and Operations Pharmacist

Overview

Inpatient Adult Acute Care Clinical and Central Operations Pharmacist

Location:

US-OR-Portland

Requisition :

Position Category: Pharmacy

Job Type: AFSCME union represented

Position Type: Regular Full-Time

Posting Department: Inpatient Pharmacy

Posting Salary Range: $118,173 - $178,946 (Commensurate with qualifications, experience and internal equity)

Posting FTE: 0.80

Posting

Schedule:

Monday - Sunday

Posting

Hours:

6:30am-3:00pm, or 2:30pm-11:00pm with every other weekend availability; and overnight coverage (9:00pm-7:30am)

Department Overview

The purpose of this position is to provide the services of a licensed pharmacist, including responsibility for the safe and proper distribution and use of medications for inpatients and outpatients across age ranges from neonates to elderly patients.

The pharmacist functions at a high level of clinical decision-making, proactively influencing drug therapy by making recommendations at the point of prescribing or, in some cases, making independent therapy decisions in collaboration with other healthcare team members. Additional services include medication reconciliation, discharge counseling, and coordination of care from admission to discharge. The pharmacist must possess strong communication skills for patient education and work collaboratively with inpatient and outpatient interdisciplinary teams, as well as contributing to teaching and precepting of students, interns, and/or residents.

This position will report to Inpatient Central Operations leadership and is designed to support both centralized operational functions and decentralized clinical services, with opportunities to cross-train and provide coverage across other inpatient service lines based on operational needs. This is a flexible model where coordination during transitions of care and medication use for patients is integrated with traditionally centralized functions, such as order entry/verifications, while also supporting decentralized clinical service needs.

This model will continue to evolve as part of an integrated decentralized patient care practice.

• Identifies, resolves and documents complex therapeutic problems, demonstrating advanced knowledge and application of this knowledge to a specific patient population.
• Responds accurately to requests for drug information from physicians, nurses, patients and patient’s families; independently reviews and interprets the literature and applies this information to specific patient care situations.
• Monitors therapeutic response and adverse effects of medications to guide drug therapy. Consults with provider when questions or problems are identified and documents activities in the patient medical record. Appropriately reports all adverse drug reactions, drug defects, and medication errors.
• Supervise the activities and assume responsibility for all duties being performed by technicians, students, interns, and residents and monitor and evaluate their performance.
• Influences standards of therapy by forming peer-level relationships with attending medical staff members; is recognized as a drug authority in their practice area by physicians, nurses and pharmacists.
• Assists in the development of treatment guidelines to be used in patients with specific diagnoses. Documents activities in the patient medical record, pharmacy monitoring profile, drug use evaluation data collection or adverse drug reaction reporting program.
• Interprets and evaluates physician's orders and prescriptions for accuracy, completeness and appropriateness. Documents activities of clinical decision or medication distribution issues that are not in line with the standard of practice, require follow-up, or continued monitoring/evaluation. Verify the accuracy and appropriateness of medications prepared and dispensed from the central pharmacy.
• Participates in both intra- and interdepartmental education programs; participates in the development of peers.
• Assists in the reconciliation of medications, education of patients regarding their home medication regimens, and coordination of the discharge medication plan with the interdisciplinary team. Documents activities in the patient medical record.

• A current Pharmacist's license issued by the Oregon State Board of Pharmacy.
• PGY1 Practice Residency or Equivalent Experience (defined as 3 years of direct patient care experience, with at least 50% time spent in pharmacotherapy activities as defined by the Board of Pharmacy Specialties.)
• BS in Pharmacy or Pharm.
  
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Job Related Knowledge,

Skills and Abilities

(Competencies):

• Enforce pharmaceutical care principles safely and accurately
• Make age-related modification of drug therapy
• Make disease-related modification of drug therapy
• Evaluate medical literature
• Set priorities to respond quickly to emergent situations/requests
• Enforce practice guidelines, standards, and medication related policies
• Perform key computer-related skills including use of the EMR, common word processing, spreadsheet,…