Manager, Infusion Pharmacy

Position Summary

The George Washington University MFA has an immediate opening for a Pharmacy Manager for Infusion Services. The position will service as the Pharmacist in Charge for the Ambulatory Infusion Center Pharmacy. 

The Pharmacy Manager for Infusion Services will be responsible for leading and nurturing individual team members to meet performance and behavioral expectations. Operationally, the individual will be responsible for streamlining the medication use process and implementing innovative practices and technology while being fiscally responsible.  The position will maintain a routine staffing component in the infusion center to ensure the individual is an expert on all operational components and can provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care to patients seen at the GWU MFA.

 The highly motivated individual will meet regularly with the Executive Director of Pharmacy to determine solutions to pharmacy workflow and the infusion team's needs; oversee strategic planning and innovation to meet institutional, departmental, patient care, and regulatory needs including capital and operating budgets for individual cost centers; ensure compliance with Federal and State Laws and Regulations pertaining to OSHA, Joint Commission, USP 797, USP 800, and policies and procedures set forth by the Department and the Board of Pharmacy. Additionally, the individual is expected to participate in the educational and continuous quality improvement endeavors of the Department of Pharmacy by precepting student pharmacists.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.  To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  Other duties may be assigned.

1.  Provide and oversee pharmacotherapy for patients with oncologic/hematologic malignancies.

2. Manage questions and clinical issues related to patients receiving chemotherapy.

3. Optimize treatment plans to align with oncology clinical pathways and GWU MFA’s policies, procedures, and formulary. 

4. Reviews the patient’s medication orders against the patient’s medication profile.

5. Provide evidence-based pharmacotherapy recommendations to physicians and nursing staff.

6. Oversight of pharmacy operations including safe handling of chemotherapy and other hazardous drugs.

7. Assist with the establishment of safe practices for infusion therapy handling.

8. Operate computer terminal for infusion preparations.

9. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole number and decimals to calculate infusion preparation dosages.

10. Improve efficiency and maintain compliance to all legal and regulatory standards.

11. Ensure the highest level of focused patient care and customer service.

12. Addresses patient concerns and resolves patient problems.

13. Responsible for interpretation, computer entry and dispensing prescriptions.

14. Provides patient education related to the individual’s disease state, including predictable actions, side effects, reasons for proper compliance, detecting and/or minimizing ADRs, eliminating unnecessary drug use and duplication. 

15. Maintain a courteous interaction with patients, visitors, departments and medical personnel.

16. Demonstrate knowledge of basic pharmacokinetic principles.

17. Retrieve and apply drug information to general patient care.

18. Apply problem identification/resolution skill and solid therapeutic knowledge to pathophysiology, drug information, drug interactions, untreated indications, improper drug selection, subtherapeutic dosage, overdose, failure to receive medication, adverse drug reactions, medication without indication and other areas for defined patient population.

19. Apply problem identification and resolution skills and solid therapeutic knowledge to clinical trials requiring pharmacist participation.

20. Participate in assigned projects within the organization as directed by supervisor(s).

21. Maintain up to date knowledge of hazardous drug management as recommended and implement corresponding processes to ensure compliance with recommendations of USP 797/800, and any applicable DC regulatory or accrediting organization requirements.