Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Adult Emergency - Full-time, Rotating

Job Description

Be a part of a world-class academic healthcare system, UChicago Medicine, as a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Adult Emergency Medicine. As a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, you will be a registered pharmacist who assumes responsibility and accountability for the provision of safe, effective, and prompt medication therapy.

 

Through a dedicated assignment within the Pediatric ICU, this individual will deliver optimal medication therapy to patients with a broad range of disease states and provide additional support of decentralized medication use systems.  Clinical Pharmacy Specialists proficiently provide direct patient-centered care and integrated pharmacy services in a fully decentralized practice setting with physicians, nurses, and other hospital personnel through participation in prospective chart review, provision of education to providers and patients, communication to the multidisciplinary team, and participation in various patient care activities in relevant patient care areas.  These clinicians are aligned with target interdisciplinary programs to deliver medication therapy management within their relevant patient care services and to ensure pharmaceutical care programs are appropriately integrated throughout the institution.  In these clinical roles, Clinical Pharmacy Specialists 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 prospective patient review, assessment of patient needs, incorporation of age and disease specific characteristics into drug therapy and patient education, adjustment of care according to patient response, and provision of clinical interventions to detect, mitigate, and prevent medication adverse events.  Clinical Pharmacy Specialists serve as departmental resources and liaisons to other departments, hospital personnel, or external groups.  They proficiently manage and facilitate the appropriate use of medications according to professional and regulatory standards.  They also conduct clinical research and practice advancement projects as well as patient care quality and regulatory compliance initiatives and guidelines designed to improve medication-use processes or pharmacy practice.  Clinical Pharmacy Specialists provide medication and practice-related education/training and actively serve as preceptors for doctor of pharmacy students and pharmacy residents.

 

Essential Job Functions 

 

• 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 ensure drug utilization activities are aligned with patient care needs, evidence-based best practices, and regulatory standards
• Designs and implements new pharmacy programs, quality improvement changes, and continuous quality assurance initiatives to advance the organization’s medication-use systems and promote optimal patient outcomes
• Designs and implements stewardship activities and restriction/surveillance programs
• Tracks and evaluates assigned pharmacy programs for operational, quality, and financial efficiency and routinely benchmarks against local and national best practices
• Actively identifies practice related issues which require evaluation and facilitate clinical research projects, quality improvement initiatives, or healthcare provider education as needed to advance practice
• Identifies and reports short- and long-term obstacles to patient care and medication safety, regulatory compliance, or stewardship of resources
• Develops and oversees policies and procedures for drug purchasing, drug usage, drug distribution, and drug control
• Provides departmental and institutional leadership for medical staff committees/meetings, hospital groups/task forces, and approved external programs/organizations
• Ensures pharmacy is an integral part of the health-care delivery system and facilitates enhancement and expansion of pharmacy services/programs
• Delivers direct patient care and clinical practice, including decentralized and service-based programs
• 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 the hospital in the relevant patient care areas/units
• Establishes collaborative pharmacist-patient relationships
• Participates in multidisciplinary rounding
• Proficiently maintains patient information and efficiently