Clinical Pharmacist - Ambulatory Med/Surg

Department Overview

This position provides the services of a licensed pharmacist who is responsible for supporting safe medication practices for patients who utilize services in the ambulatory hospital at Center for Health and Healing Buildings 1 and 2, receive infusions in Doernbecher Children's Hospital and OHSU Rheumatology Infusion Center. The pharmacist is responsible for the safe and proper distribution and use of medications in inpatients and outpatients who range in age from neonates, infants less than one year of age, children and adolescents ages 10-18, adults ages 19-65 and the elderly over age 65.

 

This position is to function at higher decision making and accountability levels regarding medication therapy, proactively affecting medication use by making recommendations at the time prescribing decisions are being made or, in some cases, making independent decisions about medication therapy in cooperation with other healthcare team members. Additional services provided include facilitatation of medication reconciliation, discharge counseling, and medication delivery through coordination of care from admission to discharge. The

pharmacist must possess strong communication skills for patient education and work collaboratively with inpatient and outpatient interdisciplinary teams including but not limited to providers, nurses, case workers,

pharmacists, and technicians, as well as, the teaching and precepting component of students, interns and/or

residents.

 

This is a flexible model where coordination of care for the patient as he/she transitions from one aspect of the

medication use system to another is integrated with traditionally centralized functions, such as order entry/verification. This coordinated care model will continue to evolve as part of an integrated decentralized

patient care practice.

Function/Duties of Position

• Interprets and evaluates prescriber's orders and for accuracy, completeness and appropriateness. Documents clinical decisions and/or medication distribution issues that are not in line with the standard of practice, require follow-up, or continued monitoring/evaluation.

• Assists with the reconciliation of home medications in the PMC and OCU upon admission/discharge, educates patients regarding their home medication regimens both pre- and post surgery, and coordinates a discharge medication plan with the interdisciplinary team. Documents activities in the patient medical record. 

• Monitors therapeutic response and adverse effects of medications to guide drug therapy. Consults with provider when questions or problems are identified and documents activies in the patient medical record. Appropriately reports all adverse drug reactions, drug defects, and medication errors.

• Supervise the activities and assume responsibility for all duties being performed by technicians, students, interns, and residents and monitors and evaluates their performance.

• Responds accurately to requests for drug information from prescribers, nurses, patients and patient's families; independently reviews and interprets the literature and applies this information to specific patient care situations.

• Other Duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• A current Pharmacist’s license issued by the Oregon State Board of Pharmacy.
• BS in Pharmacy or Pharm.D. PLUS Practice Residency or Equivalent Experience or Specialist Certification (BCPS, BCOPS, etc)
• Inpatient hospital pharmacy practice: Ability to meet the pharmaceutical care needs of the following patient care types: Acute care, psychiatric, rehabilitiaion, skilled nursing, long-term care, obstetric, oncology, chemically dependent, HIV, home care, hospice.

Job Related Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (Competencies):

• Demonstrates the ability to: Enforce pharmaceutical care principles safely and accurately
• Make age-related modification of drug therapy
• Make disease-related modification of drug therapy
• Evaluate medical literature
• Work independently without minimal direct supervision
• Handle multiple tasks and frequent interruptions
• Communicate effectively both formally and infomrally, including presentations
• Project manage Work with a team professionally and collaboratively
• Set priorities to respond quickly to emergent situations/requests
• Work cooperatively with health-system and pharmacy staff
• Communicate effectively and professionally (orally and in writing)
• Perform work accurately with attention to detail
• Exercise sound professional judgement
• Perform systematic problem solving
• Enforce practice guidelines,standards, and medication related policies