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Exemption Status:

Exempt

Schedule Details:

Monday through Friday

Scheduled Hours:

8a-430p

Shift:

1 - Day Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours:

40

Cost Center:

10020 - 3834 ATRX Pharmacy

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

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Position Summary:

The Advanced Therapeutics clinical pharmacist provides patient centered clinical pharmacy services, including but not limited to comprehensive medication reviews, adherence monitoring interventions, and targeted medication reviews, that seek to optimize clinical, economic, and patient outcomes. The Advanced Therapeutics clinical pharmacist designs and implements targeted medication and disease management programs. Advanced Therapeutics clinical pharmacists are responsible for improving the patient’s experience, safety, and achieving positive clinical and financial outcomes.  This position is responsible to an immediate supervisor/manager.

Major Responsibilities: 

The following key performance areas (Clinical, Operations/Distribution, Financial, Safety and Regulatory, Research and Education) are performed by the clinical pharmacist:

 

Clinical Performance:

• Provides medication management services in a collaborative manner that consist of the following:

• Review patient medication history, educate patients on drug therapy, establish desired outcomes, develop/modify therapeutic plans, determine alternatives for achieving outcomes, develop drug monitoring plans, monitor patient outcomes, document medication related issues in electronic health record, interpret laboratory data, review patient medication profiles, monitor pharmacokinetics of drug therapy, monitoring for potential adverse drug – drug, drug-lab, drug-disease state, and drug - food interactions.

• Maintains and updates a patient profile with demographics (e.g. height and weight), diagnosis, allergies, and current medications.

• Monitors drug therapy to evaluate appropriateness of use, dose, dosage form, regimen, route, therapeutic duplication, and drug interaction.

• Provides drug information to health care professionals and to patients.

• Documents clinical interventions and activities in a timely manner.  Documentation may include progress notes in the EHR, annual comprehensive medication reviews with written summaries in the CMS’s standardized format, and patient specific documents, i.e., medication-related actions plans and personal medication records.

• Counsels patients on discharge medications as appropriate.

• Performs clinical review and verification of medication orders.

• Performs medication order entry when needed.

• Discusses medication order clarifications with the prescriber, documents interventions, and communicates medication order changes as needed.

• Facilitates medication discharge planning and smooth transition to alternate sites of care and access to an ambulatory pharmacy.

• Maintains accurate and proper patient medication profiles, monitoring to ensure the proper choice of medication, dosage form, strength, length of therapy and interaction potential of the prescribed medication.

• May work under Collaborative Practice and pro