Clinical Pharmacist, Inpatient

Title: Clinical Pharmacist, Inpatient

Department Org: Pharmacy - 110130

Employee Classification: J1 - Salaried Full Time HSC

Bargaining Unit: Professional Staff Association

Primary Location: HSC H

Shift:  2

Float: True

Rotate: True

On Call: True

Travel: False

Weekend/Holiday: True

Job Description:

Clinical Pharmacists are responsible and accountable for the provision of safe, effective, and prompt medication therapy. Through various assignments within the department, they provide support of centralized and decentralized medication-use systems as well as deliver optimal medication therapy to patients with a broad range of disease states. Clinical Pharmacists proficiently provide direct patient-centered care and integrated pharmacy operational services in a decentralized practice setting with physicians, nurses, and other hospital personnel. In these clinical roles, Clinical Pharmacists participate in all necessary aspects of the medication-use system while providing comprehensive and individualized pharmaceutical care to the patients in their assigned areas. Pharmaceutical care services include but are not limited to assessing patient needs, incorporating age and disease specific characteristics into drug therapy and patient education, adjusting care according to patient response, and providing clinical interventions to detect, mitigate, and prevent medication adverse events. Clinical Pharmacists serve as departmental resources and liaisons to other departments, hospital personnel, or external groups. They also conduct clinical research and practice advancement projects as well as patient care quality and regulatory compliance initiatives designed to improve medication-use processes or pharmacy practice. Clinical Pharmacists provide medication and practice-related education/training and actively serve as preceptors for Doctor of Pharmacy Students and pharmacy residents.


All employees must always adhere to the following:
• Employees are always expected to adhere to UTMC Service Values including iCare standards.
• Adheres to hospital policies and procedures as well as addresses patient safety, performance improvement, and quality of care issues
• Employees are knowledgeable about patient safety and quality of care issues. Able to recognize safety issues in the department and handles incidents by institutional and/or departmental policies and procedures. If safety issues were identified, all issues were handled timely and appropriately.
• Employees attend and follow all department specific safety education and training to create a safe work environment.


1. Clinical
Delivers direct patient care and clinical practice, including decentralized and service-based programs:
• Maintains proficiency in pharmacy services and clinical pharmacy programs
• Works as an active member of multidisciplinary team and collaborates with healthcare providers within patient care areas to provide patient-centered care
• Identifies high-risk patients and implements interventions to improve quality and safety
• Makes appropriate evidence-based, patient-centered medication recommendations
• Participates in the management of medical emergencies
• Provides discharge medication review, reconciliation, and counseling as appropriate

Provides pharmaceutical services throughout the medical center:
Maintains proficiency in hospital computer systems and medication ordering systems
• Provides accurate, safe, timely, and appropriate medication therapy based on patient age and needs
• Completes critical patient monitoring and reviews patient profile/chart to identify, prevent, or mitigate drug-related problems, improper drug or dose selection, sub therapeutic dosage, over dosage, adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, failure to receive drugs, untreated indications, medication use without an indication, and treatment failures
• Communicates effectively and appropriately with healthcare providers and caregivers (physicians, nurses, etc.) and assures continuity of pharmaceutical care between shifts and among staff
• Actively participates in stewardship activities and restricted medication programs

2. Leadership
• Performs alternate leader responsibilities/duties as assigned in the absence of the pharmacy manager (leader).
Leads assigned patient service lines, clinical areas, and therapeutic programs:
• Facilitates pharmaceutical care services, direct patient care programs, medication utilization systems within assigned services and care areas to assure drug utilization activities are aligned with patient care needs, evidence-