Clinical Pharmacist - Inpatient Pharmacy - 1 - 2 Shifts Biweekly
Company: ChristianaCare
Location: Newark
Posted on: October 16, 2024
Job Description:
Do you want to work at one of the top 100 hospitals in the
nation?ChristianaCare is currently recruiting for a Clinical
Pharmacist to join our team.Life is full of choices, and
ChristianaCare recognizes whom you work for is an important
decision. Choose an organization that values pharmacy services and
provides the opportunity to impact the health of our community
adhering to our Core Values and Behaviors guided by Excellence and
Love.This position is part-time (one to two shifts biweekly, 8-hour
shifts) that primarily works day shift with an evening shift
component and a weekend/holiday requirement; currently every 4th
weekend and 1-2 holiday shifts per year.Why ChristianaCare?
- At the Newark Campus, operations run through a network of
inpatient pharmacists, including a central pharmacy and satellite
pharmacies that focus on critical care, emergency medicine, heart
failure, investigational drugs, neonates, oncology, pediatrics,
perioperative services, sterile and non-sterile compounding,
transplant, and trauma.
- Clinical services include robust acute and ambulatory care
services. In the acute care setting, the department employs a
decentralized model of practice, placing pharmacists directly into
patient care units as part of a multidisciplinary team.As a
Clinical Pharmacist you will:
- Participate in direct patient care through daily
interdisciplinary rounds.
- Manage specific medication therapies per approved policies
(e.g., warfarin, aminoglycosides, vancomycin, IV to PO conversions,
renal dose adjustments, indication-directed dosing adjustments,
selection of surgical prophylaxis medications)
- Evaluate drug efficacy, monitor therapeutic goals and outcomes,
and review for contraindications/precautions
- Order and evaluate laboratory tests per approved protocols to
support medication therapy monitoring
- Identify opportunities during chart review for counseling and
medication history completion
- Communicate recommendations directly with provider
- Electronically document interventions and provide sign out as
appropriate
- Opportunities to serve as a preceptor for both pharmacy
students and residents
- Provide drug information to allied healthcare professionals and
fulfill provider-initiated pharmacy consults
- Assist with projects such as MUEs, drug monographs, and
performance improvement activities
- Review and interpret provider orders and dispense
medication
- Coordinate and supervise work-place activities
- Assume responsibility of the satellite pharmacies including the
sterile product processing in the IV Admixture Service lab and OR
pharmacyEducation and Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy or PharmD degree from an
accredited College of Pharmacy required
- ASHP-accredited pharmacy residency preferred or equivalent
experience (3 years acute care)
- Board certification preferred
- Current licensure (or eligible to reciprocate) in the State of
DelawareAbout ChristianaCare:ChristianaCare is one of the country's
most dynamic health systems, centered on improving health outcomes,
making high-quality care more accessible and lowering health care
costs. ChristianaCare includes an extensive network of outpatient
services, home health care, hospital care at home, medical aid
units, three hospitals (1,300 beds). We provide a Level I trauma
center, Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a comprehensive
stroke center and regional centers of excellence in heart and
vascular care, cancer care and women's health. We rank 21st in the
nation for hospital admissions and 6th for admission of stroke
patients. ChristianaCare is a not-for-profit teaching health system
with our outstanding, data-powered care coordination service and a
focus on population health and value-based care. ChristianaCare is
shaping the future of health care!If you 're inspired to make a
difference, we invite you to become a ChristianaCare
caregiver.
Keywords: ChristianaCare, Newark , Clinical Pharmacist - Inpatient Pharmacy - 1 - 2 Shifts Biweekly, Healthcare , Newark, Delaware
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