Clinical Pharmacist, Critical Care MGH

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Job Summary

This position is a multispecialty critical care position.

Clinical Pharmacists assume responsibility and accountability for the provision of safe, effective, and prompt medication therapy. Clinical Pharmacists proficiently provide direct patient-centered care and integrated pharmacy operational services with physicians, nurses, and other hospital personnel to deliver optimal medication therapy to patients with a broad range of disease states. These clinicians are aligned with target interdisciplinary programs and specialty services to deliver medication therapy management and to ensure pharmaceutical care programs are appropriately integrated throughout the institution. 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 proficiently manage the appropriate use of medications according to professional and regulatory standards. They also conduct practice-related research and patient care, quality, and regulatory compliance initiatives designed to improve medication-use processes or pharmacy practice. Finally, Clinical Pharmacists provide medication and practice-related education/training and actively serve as preceptors for pharmacy residents and Doctor of Pharmacy students (MGH Pharmacy Residency website: https://www.massgeneral.org/education/pharmacy-residency.)

 

Qualifications

Required

• Must be eligible for licensure to practice pharmacy in the state of Massachusetts.
• Board Certification by examination, or equivalent certification, in the relevant specialty is preferred, required within 18 months of hiring.

Preferred

• Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY1 and PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency, or experience as a critical care or emergency medicine clinical pharmacist preferred.

Essential Job Functions

• Lead assigned patient service lines, clinical areas, and therapeutic programs:
• Facilitate pharmaceutical care, direct patient care programs, medication utilization systems within assigned care areas to assure drug utilization activities are aligned with patient care needs, evidence-based best practices, hospital guidelines, and regulatory standards
• Design and implement new pharmacy programs, quality improvement changes, and continuous quality assurance initiatives to advance the organization’s medication-use systems and promote optimal patient outcomes
• Design and implement stewardship activities and restriction/surveillance programs
• Track and evaluate assigned pharmacy programs for operational, quality, and financial efficiency and routinely benchmark against local and national best practices
• Develop strategies to optimize medication utilization, including but not limited to clinical guidelines, disease-specific pathways, formulary management, and medication-use policies
• Provide departmental and institutional leadership for committees/meetings, hospital group/task forces, and approved external programs/organizations
• Assure pharmacy is an integral part of the health-care delivery system and facilitates enhancement and expansion of pharmacy services/programs

Deliver direct patient-care and clinical practice, including decentralized and service-based programs:

• Maintain proficiency in decentralized pharmacy services and clinical pharmacy programs
• Place practice priority on the delivery of patient-centered care
• Work as an active member of multidisciplinary team and collaborate with healthcare personnel within care areas
• Establish collaborative pharmacist-patient relationships
• Maintain patient information and interpret patients’ health care needs including patient problem lists and prioritized pharmacist interventions
• Collect and document accurate patient medication histories and reconcile discrepancies
• Identify high-risk patients and implement interven