Clinical Pharmacist (Crown Point, IN) - Full-Time, Days

Job Description

Join a world-class academic healthcare system, UChicago Medicine Northwest Indiana as a Clinical Pharmacist. UChicago Medicine is an integrated academic and community health system with multiple primary medical facilities within the surrounding suburbs of Chicago.  UChicago Medicine, Crown Point is a new two-story, 130,000-square-foot multispecialty care center and micro-hospital in Northwest Indiana for what will be the academic health system's largest off-site facility and its first freestanding building in Indiana. UChiacgo Comprehensive Caner Center in Valparaiso and UChicago Comprehensive Cancer Center in Chesterton provide care to NWI hematology/oncology patients.The Crown Point care center will include:• A micro-hospital with an eight-bed emergency department and a short-stay inpatient unit• A comprehensive cancer center with infusion therapy as well as radiation, medical and surgical oncology• An imaging center with MRI, CT, PET, X-ray and ultrasound capabilities• An outpatient surgery center• Laboratory services• Medical offices with access to UChicago Medicine’s physicians and specialists, including those in cancer care, cardiology, digestive diseases, orthopaedics, neurosciences, pediatrics, primary care, surgical specialties, transplant care and women’s health.

 

 

In this role as Clinical Pharmacist, you will assume responsibility and accountability 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 adeptly function in pharmacy operational areas, including but not limited to central dispensing pharmacies, satellite dispensing pharmacies, and specialty pharmacy areas.  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.  These clinicians provide coverage of various interdisciplinary programs to deliver medication therapy management within targeted patient care services and to ensure pharmaceutical care programs are appropriately integrated throughout the institution.  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

 

 

Essential Job Functions

 

• Maintains proficiency in decentralized pharmacy services and clinical pharmacy programs.
• Places practice priority on the delivery of patient-centered care.
• Works as an active member of multidisciplinary team and collaborates with healthcare providers within decentralized patient care areas.
• Proficiently maintains patient information and efficiently interprets patients’ health care needs including patient problem lists and prioritized pharmacist interventions.
• Implements, evaluates, and redesigns pharmaceutical care plans based on patient progress and evolving goals for medication usage, including drug dosing, monitoring (including nutritional support, pharmacokinetic monitoring, and anticoagulation therapy, etc.).
• Provides discharge medication review, reconciliation, and counseling as appropriate.
• Educates patients regarding safe and effective use of medications, possible medication side effects, and the role of prescribed medications in the overall therapeutic care plan.
• 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.
• Facilitates specialty medication procurement, ordering, and dispensing procedures including but not limited to chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, controlled substances, etc. as appropriate for assignment.
• Serves as a preceptor/educator for UCMC pharmacy residency and student experiential education programs, including maintaining training and experience in pharmacy practice areas appropriate for teaching assignments
• Identifies, designs, and implements improvements in the medication-use system to advance patient safety, maximize therapeutic outcomes, or control costs

 

Required Qualifications

 

• Graduate of an ACPE accredited College of Pharmacy
• Doctor of Pharmacy or other advanced degree highly preferred.
• Completion of an ASHP accredited PGY-1 Pharmacy Residenc