Pharmacy Specialist-Clinical Residency Program – Sharp Memorial Hospital – Full Time

Hours:

Shift Start Time:

Variable

Shift End Time:

Variable

AWS Hours Requirement:

8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements:

As Needed

On-Call Required:

No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):

$75.460 - $97.370 - $119.280

 

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position.  The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices. 

 

What You Will Do
To provide the professional, clinical and technical knowledge, and skills and expertise required for the provision of comprehensive pharmaceutical care that supports the mission, values and philosophy of Pharmacy Services and Sharp HealthCare.

Required Qualifications

• Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)
• Completion of PGY-1.
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED
• California Pharmacist License - CA State Board of Pharmacy -REQUIRED
• ACLS Certification (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

• 1 Year Postdoctoral experience in a hospital pharmacy environment.

Other Qualification Requirements

• AHA BLS and ACLS are required within 90 days of hire.

Essential Functions

• Clinical Advisory Services
  Qualitative participation in clinical intervention program through consistent issue identification, provision of reliable best practice/literature based recommendations, follow-through with prescribers and other clinicians.
  Quantitative work, measured by the completion and submission of electronic forms consistent with the average established for each pharmacy department/shift.
  Consistently responds to and documents drug information requests promptly and professionally.
  Participates in ongoing data collection for MUE.
  Reviews patient medication profiles for appropriateness of drug therapy, therapeutic duplications, allergies, weight, height, minimum and maximum dosing guidelines, age specific requirements, renal and hepatic function, drug interactions and other pertinent factors to individualize patients' medication dosing requirements within boundaries approved by committees.
  Identifies, resolves and documents prescribing, formulary and therapeutic issues through integration of patient variables, clinical status, drug knowledge, and professional judgment.
  Communicates with nurses and physicians in a timely manner about therapeutic issues or problems.
  Follows up on formulary compliance issues and/or communicates issues to management.
  Provide therapeutic drug monitoring for targeted agents or agents with narrow therapeutic index.
  Participates in Code-Blue emergencies as required, mixes and labels medications as needed, and provides information; Assures that pharmacy code-blue billing is completed where appropriate and restocks medications.
  Consistently participating in financial pillar/cost savings measures (e.g. IV to PO conversions, formulary adherence, etc).
• Clinical and Educational Services
  Has met minimum certification/recertification requirements required for hospital consult services offered at entity as outlined in policies and procedures.
  Participates in Clinical Services for example, anticoagulation service, treatment team participation, and other services specific to the entity.
  Demonstrates knowledge of consult services as evidenced by attainment of consult service goals and proper documentation of actions, recommendations, and patient outcomes on the pharmacy monitoring forms.
  Performs by leaving concise, objective, legible, and professional notes in the patient's clinical chart or via clinical intervention notes.
  Consistently demonstrates ability to complete formal clinical workload assigned during shift as evidenced by completing all consults and advisory services in a timely manner.
  Participates in the selection, development, implementation, outcomes analysis, reporting, and maintenance of selected pharmacotherapy improvement programs, including disease state management programs, or other cross-continuum pharmacotherapy programs. Reviews and reports on progress of integration plan and identifies additional areas and plans for improvement.
  Provides