Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Emergency Department
Lansing, Michigan
Employer: McLaren
Industry: Health Professional
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time
Responsible for designing and brainstorming new educational programs and activities to help pharmaceutical employees expand their knowledge of clinical drugs. May be responsible for educating other health professionals, such as doctors, nurses, and health care providers about the clinical uses of a variety of medications. May also function as a Pharmacist, providing prescribed medications and pharmaceutical products for adequate patient care according to professional standards and practices.
Job Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
Required:
Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans
Job Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
- Encourage multidisciplinary collaboration to ensure the appropriate therapeutic use of clinical drugs resulting in optimal patient outcomes.
- Work within appropriate committees to ensure that drugs available are appropriate for the patient populations served.
- Monitors drug interactions and problems, ensuring safety of patients.
- Prepares medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders; detecting therapeutic incompatibilities.
- Dispenses medications by compounding, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals.
- Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals; counseling patients on drug therapies.
- Develops staff's pharmacological knowledge by participating in clinical programs; training pharmacy staff, students, interns, externs, residents, and health care professionals.
- Complies with state and federal drug laws as regulated by the state board of pharmacy, the drug enforcement administration, and the food and drug administration by maintaining records for controlled substances; removing outdated and damaged drugs from the pharmacy inventory; supervising the work results of support personnel; maintaining current registration; studying existing and new legislation; anticipating legislation; advising management on needed actions.
- Protects patients and technicians by adhering to infection-control protocols and related procedures, rules, and regulations.
- Maintains pharmacological knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
- Performs also function as a specialty staff pharmacist.
- Acts as team lead to pharmacy technicians.
- Develops and implements pharmaceutical care plans, which address high-risk side effects of medications.
- Monitors drug interactions, therapeutic incompatibilities, and problems, ensuring safety of patients by documenting interventions.
- Documents patient interactions in appropriate electronic medical record.
- Protects patients and technicians by adhering to infection-control / hazardous medication protocols and related procedures, rules, and regulations.
- Performs other related duties as required and directed.
Required:
- PharmD degree
- Completion of pharmacy internship and licensure in the State of Michigan.
- One year of hospital pharmacy experience.
- Pharmacy Residency and board certification preferred.
Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans
Created: 2024-10-02
Reference: 24006178
Country: United States
State: Michigan
City: Lansing
ZIP: 48933
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