PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Resident

Job Profile Summary 

​This role focuses on providing pharmacy related services in a hospital or retail setting.  In addition, this role focuses on performing the following Pharmacy Services duties: Delivers pharmaceuticals. Includes professionals who are trained and sometimes licensed to dispense medicine/controlled substances.   A professional individual contributor role that may direct the work of other lower level professionals or manage processes and programs.  The majority of time is spent overseeing the design, implementation or delivery of processes, programs and policies using specialized knowledge and skills typically acquired through advanced education.   An experienced level role that applies practical knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience.  Works independently with general supervision, problems faced are difficult but typically not complex, and may influence others within the job area through explanation of facts, policies and practices. 

Job Overview 

This 12-month, post-graduate year two training program builds on PGY1 residency experiences to contribute to the development of pharmacists who will specialize in clinical or administrative pharmacy practice. The program provides residents with opportunities to function independently as practitioners by conceptualizing and integrating accumulated experience and knowledge and incorporating both into the provision of patient care or other advanced practice settings. Residents who successfully complete this PGY2 program are prepared for advanced patient care, academic, or other specialized positions, along with board certification, if available. The residency program’s purpose is achieved by utilizing the four competency areas and their associated educational goals and objectives as required by the American Society of Health System (ASHP) Standard. The competency areas are: (1) patient care; (2) advancing practice and improving patient care; (3) leadership and management; and (4) teaching, education, and dissemination of knowledge. 

Job Description 

Minimum Qualifications: 

1. PharmD from an ACPE accredited program. 

2. Completed an ASHP-accredited PGY-1 Residency. 

3. Unrestricted Pharmacist license within the first 90 days of employment. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

1. Experience in drug utilization review and analysis. 

2. Experience with Electronic Medical Records. 

Duties and Responsibilities: The duties and responsibilities listed below are intended to describe the general nature of work and are not intended to be an all-inclusive list.  Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned. 

1. Rotates though various areas of the Department of Pharmacy appropriate to the specialty for which the program was designed (e.g., critical care, cardiology, specialty pharmacy health system management). 

2. Reviews and approves medication orders for all Medical Center patients. This includes weekend, holiday, evening coverage as described in departmental policies and procedures. 

3. Provides specialized continuing education for professional staff (e.g., pharmacists, physicians, nurses). 

Educates other health care providers by publishing drug information articles in the pharmacy newsletter