Inpatient Pharmacist, Critical Care, PRN

Company Description

Renowned as the academic flagship of the University of Maryland Medical System, our Magnet®-designated facility is a nationally recognized, academic medical center with opportunities across the continuum of care.  Come join UMMC and discover the atmosphere where talents and ideas come together to enhance patient care and advance the science of nursing.  Located in downtown Baltimore near the Inner Harbor and Camden Yards, you won’t find a more vibrant place to work! 

Job Description

General Summary

At UMMC, the Clinical Pharmacist interprets and evaluates physicians’ medication orders, ensures appropriate preparation, packaging, delivery, storage, and monitoring of prescribed medications, manages pharmacy support personnel and pharmacy work areas, ensures compliance with established policies, standards, practices, and values of the department, institution and profession, educates, advises, consults and trains UMMC patients, patient families, and health care professionals and staff

Principal Responsibilities and Tasks

The following statements describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals within this classification. Specific clinical situations may dictate that additional duties be performed by personnel so classified in order to effectively meet patient needs.

Provides pharmaceutical care to individual patients. Promotes optimal drug therapy and safe use of medications by applying medication use guidelines, standards and regulations to individual patients. Specific processes include: assessment of patient-specific data to evaluate the patient’s status and medication needs; medication preparation, dispensing and distribution; medication administration; monitoring; patient/family education; the prevention, detection and resolution of drug-related problems. (May include patients seen in any patient care setting of the medical center as described in the Department of Pharmacy Scope of Services Statement.)

• Receives and interprets providers’ prescription/drug orders for individual patients. Acknowledges prescription orders using computerized system. Assures prescription orders are filled properly and provides a final check.
• Screens orders and completes a medication profile review in order to detect and/or resolve drug-related problems (drug-drug interactions, drug-food interactions).
• Demonstrates the ability to apply basic pharmacokinetic monitoring of drugs.
• Collaborates with other members of the health care team, provides medication counseling for patients/family of the medical center.
• Consults with medical staff when necessary or requested. Consults with nursing staff.

Manages the pharmacy. Acts in accordance with the mission, vision, values of the pharmacy department and medical center. Maintains established department policies, procedures, objectives, and quality assurance program, safety, environmental and infection control, and generally accepted pharmacy practices and, state and federal laws.

• Provides front-line management of service areas such as pharmacy satellites, IV admixture lab, or ambulatory pharmacy settings. Possesses the required supervisory skills to accomplish daily activities accurately and in a timely manner. Oversees and directs the work of pharmacy technicians and other supportive personnel. Ensures that the department’s service standards are not burdened by lack of punctuality or attendance.
• May include organization and synthesis of work schedules to allocate resources to workload based on productivity standards.
• Oversees the central compounding and preparation of intravenous admixtures and other sterile products. Demonstrates the ability to schedule work production to assure timely delivery of completed products to customers. Adheres to published standards (e.g. ASHP, The Joint Commission, USP, OSHA) for sterile products preparation.
• Participates in orientation and training of new employees.
• Ensures proper handling of hazardous materials by observing and demonstrating safety procedures and or “universal precautions” as appropriate.
• Ensures compliance with investigation and drug protocols. Maintains research records as appropriate including requirements for informed consent.

Provides timely drug information in a professional manner to the public and health care professionals through accurate interpretation of appropriate medical and pharmaceutical references. May include provision of services in a formalized drug or poison information center.

• Possesses satisfactory oral communication skills to ensure the timely and accurate transmission of pertinent information to the appropriate individuals.
• Identifies the need for and is effective in retrieving drug information and applying it to general patient care questions. Drug informatio