Pharmacist Clinical, Ambulatory (H)

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MO-SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

Anticoagulation Clinical Pharmacist

Responsible for managing anticoagulation therapy to optimize patient outcomes while ensuring safe, effective, and evidence-based care. Key responsibilities include:

• Develop individualized, evidence-based dosing and monitoring plans for patients on warfarin and direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs).
• Work under collaborative practice agreement to independently implement patient care plans.
• Assess INR values and other relevant laboratory results, identifying and resolving drug-related issues such as interactions, changes in health status, and adherence challenges.
• Provide safe perioperative anticoagulation recommendations for patients undergoing procedures, collaborating closely with providers, surgeons, and patients to minimize risk.
• Communicate effectively with interdisciplinary healthcare teams and maintain accurate, timely documentation within the electronic medical record.

Job Summary:

Assumes an active role to provide patient care through comprehensive medication reviews and/or targeted disease-specific interventions.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Gathers necessary data to promote patient safety by ensuring that each relevant medication is indicated, effective, safe, and that the patient is adherent to therapy.
• Improves patient-specific drug therapy and therapeutic problems by evaluating the appropriateness of drug therapy, assessing effectiveness, and identifying potential interactions or adverse effects.
• Assesses relevant patient-specific medical problems, prioritizes medical problems based on urgency and severity, and identifies preventive and health maintenance issues as needed. May design a drug therapy plan for patient-specific problems and persuasively justifies recommendations.
• Provides enhanced patient care through detailed counseling on medications and disease states, adherence assessment, medication cost analysis, review of immunization status, and communication with patients, providers, and pharmacy.
• Provides consultation to other health care professionals if requested.
• For Specialty Pharmacy Only: Conducts patient counseling and monitoring as required by the patient management program.
• For Specialty Pharmacy Only: Participates in the quality management program to facilitate continuous process improvement initiatives and quality improvement projects.
• Precept pharmacy students and residents, as applicable.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Pharmacy degree (Pharm.D; Bachelor of Pharmacy) from an accredited school of pharmacy

EXPERIENCE

• No experience required

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS 
 

Resuscitation Certification Requirement: Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider (BLS HCP) required within 90 day of employment. Other resuscitation certifications may be required dependent on department.

State of Work Location: Illinois 

•     Pharmacist, Registered - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) 

     
State of Work Location: Missouri 

•     Pharmacist - Missouri Division of Professional Registration 

     
State of Work Location: Oklahoma 

•     Pharmacist - Oklahoma