Hospice Clinical Pharmacist

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This is a telecommuting position that will follow all MultiCare policies and procedures regarding remote work.

The remote employee will report to a designated MHS work site in the following circumstances:

• Mandatory education. Staff will be notified in advance in order to make the necessary arrangements.
• Equipment failure: The supervisor must be contacted immediately. In the event the equipment cannot be repaired quickly; the remote employee will be required to report to a designated MHS work site for the remainder of their assigned shift and any shifts thereafter until the equipment is repaired.
• Mandatory meetings.

• MultiCare Health System will not reimburse for travel and mileage when reporting to a designated MHS work site.

FTE: 1.0, Shift: Day, Schedule: M-F 8-4:30pm

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The Pharmacist ensures prompt and accurate pharmaceutical care services for patients, nurses, and providers in the hospice department. This professional position operates independently with remote supervision. Work situations require working-knowledge of pharmacotherapy and pharmacy practice, precision, attention to detail, service-oriented, good problem solving and appropriate decision-making, possess effective time management, communication skills, and end of life care. Internal contacts are primarily with pharmacy staff/administration, nursing staff, hospice providers, and hospice administration. External contacts include physicians, patients, vendors, and outside health care facilities.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

PATIENT –ORIENTED PHARMACEUTICAL CARE SERVICES

• Provides for the safe and accurate provision of pharmaceutical care service
• Interprets and evaluates the validity and safety of medication orders and prescriptions written by licensed practitioner
• Checks for appropriate dosage, drug interactions, allergies, and or contra-indications for use before dispensing medications
• Accurately processes medication order entry and dispensing
• Supervises pharmacy ancillary staff
• Participates in interdisciplinary team (IDT) meetings on all hospice patients every 2 weeks with accurate documentation.
• Reviews medication profiles of all patients receiving hospice care services for undertreated symptoms, untreated symptoms, or unnecessary medication therapy every 2 weeks (minimum) prior to IDT meetings.
• Coordinates with department of pharmacy financials on expense, revenue, and budget as they pertain to hospice care services.
• Develops and manage hospice opioid risk mitigation and monitoring strategies to determine the level of risk for each patient and family receiving opioid therapy
• Ensures continuity of pharmaceutical care to and from the acute and ambulatory patient-care settings as it applies to hospice patients
• Provides on-call pharmacy hospice services when appropriate via Tiger text or EPIC in-basket.
• Documents pharmaceutical care activities appropriately within Epic hyperspace (or remote if applicable) in a timely manner.

DRUG INFORMATION & EDUCATION

• Serves as a timely resource to the medical, nursing, and pharmacy staff regarding the safe and effective management of medications used in the treatment of pain and other related end of life symptom management.
• Evaluates medical literature for evidence-based treatments. Including disease states and primary literature for pediatric and adult off-label medication use when standards of care do not exist or are controversial
• Performs in-service education/training on drug therapies or workflow changes to pharmacy staff, providers, nurses, and other staff related to hospice services.
• Participate in committees and task forces including but not limited to pain, palliative and supportive care, sedation, transitions of care, and pertinent pharmacy and therapeutics committee or subcommittees
• Maintains necessary continuing education for professional licensure or specialty certification, where appropriate, to maintain the highest level of care to patients of Multicare Hospice by practicing at the top of license.
• Serves as preceptor for pharmacy students and residents

QUALITY ASSURANCE AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT:

• Adheres to MHS hospice policies and procedures, as well as federal and state regulations in the handling and storage