Inpatient Clinical Pharmacist (full-time) - Pender Community Hospital District

Plans, implements, administers, and monitors pharmacy services to provide the highest quality patient care and customer service in accordance with the philosophy, goals and objectives of Pender Community Hospital and The Apothecary Shop.

• Performs day-to-day operations, which includes problem solving issues and ensuring effective processing, works with other departments in providing services and resources, monitors workflows and departmental processes and supervises technician departmental functions.
• Establishes controls to promote confidentiality of records and adherence to pertinent laws and regulations (regulatory), coordinates policies for release of information, analyzes records to ensure completeness and accuracy, and determines methods for obtaining complete and accurate records.
• Reads, extracts and interprets information in patient charts accurately and in a timely manner, provides clinical consultation and clarification to practitioners. Suggests appropriate cost-effective therapeutic alternatives to medical staff as needed.
• Provides drug information to patients and their families, educates clinical staff in regard to standards of practice and disease management guidelines and provides medication education and counseling to patients as needed.
• Monitors drug therapy regimens for contraindications, drug-drug interactions, drug-food interactions, drug-laboratory test interactions, allergies, appropriateness of drug and dose, and therapeutic duplications, detects and reports suspected adverse drug reactions and medication errors accurately and in a timely manner, provides accurate, adequate and timely drug information to the professional staff and promotes rational drug therapy selection per best practice recommendations.
• Participates in the quality improvement and medication use review activities of the facility. Collects data, conducts quality monitors and inspections, and maintains logs, records and other documentation as assigned, stores and preserves vaccines, serums and other drugs subject to deterioration. Ensures that any outdated or unusable drugs are removed and quarantined until they are removed from the facility by a reverse distributor.
• Monitors the use of the electronic health record to ensure accuracy of information in patient charts.
• Updates and monitors new NDCs & barcodes for formulary accuracy, reviews daily charges for accuracy and coordinates with pharmacy technician for charge discrepancies & follow up actions and initiates medication reconciliation activities in collaboration with the patient's primary care provider.
• Recommends, adjusts, and documents medication changes in collaboration with the patient's primary care provider, orders appropriate laboratory tests to monitor medication therapy in collaboration with the patient's primary care provider, follows facility-approved pharmacy driven protocols and coordinates care with the provider for additional interventions and participates in Quality Assurance programs and ideas.
• Prepares and dispenses medications across the patient care areas served by the hospital pharmacy department, including but not limited to, inpatient services, emergency department, outpatient specialty clinics, surgery and labor & delivery.
• Knowledgable in sterile compounding standards of care, including but not limited to, USP 797 / 800 compliance, IV admixture dosing calculations, and appropriate directions for administration to patients.
• Participates in facility and departmental oversight of healthcare technology as it relates to medication safety practices (examples: automated dispensing cabinet maintenance, electronic health record (EHR) build & optimization, IV Smart Pump library maintenance, etc).
• Coordinates with the billing team & chargemaster committee changes & updates to medication coding and charging practices for efficient and accurate charging practices.
• Performs 340B support to the facility as requested (examples: monthly audits, EHR accuracy for medication dispensing, split-billing software review for purchasing, etc). Collaborates on development of Medication Safety Committee projects and meeting topics and reviews departmental policies as requested and provides feedback for revisions
• Reviews order sets and protocols for best practices and offers feedback for revisions
• Other clinical activities to enhance patient care and medication safety as requested

Hours: Minimum 40 hours/week, Monday-Friday, 7:30am-4:00pm

Keyword: Hospital Pharmacist
Required Experience:

Education, Experience:

• Graduate of an ACPE-accredited School of Pharmacy with a BS or PharmD degree

Certificates, Licensure, Registrations:

• Active Pharmacist License in the State of Nebraska

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required:

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide
• Ability to generate, read, interpret, and take action as it relates to basic financial statements, national and state regulations, safety rulings, operational and maintenance and organizational policies / procedures
• Ability to write reports and correspondence
• Ability to effectively present information to patients, families, employees, health care providers, etc...
• Ability to work cooperatively and communicate effectively to maintain good working relationships with staff and health care providers
• Ability to work with skill in identifying problems

EQUIPMENT, TOOLS, MATERIALS

• Knowledge of computer hardware equipment and software applications relevant to work functions.

Benefits:

From: Pender Community Hospital District