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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Maintains medication distribution and control systems. Includes appropriate management of inventory control systems.
- Participates in the Medication Error/Adverse Drug Event Process including Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) surveillance and reporting.
- Participates in the ongoing system of formulary management by screening new drug orders against guidelines for use and following procedures for the handling of non-formulary requests.
- Engages in performance improvement and professional development initiatives.
- Enhances customer relations and adheres to the values of the department and institution.
- Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the patient populations(s) served.
- Other related professional duties as required including participation in routine staff meetings.
Company Description
Renowned as the academic flagship of the University of Maryland Medical System, our Magnet(r)-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!
Qualifications
- A baccalaureate degree in pharmacy from a college or university accredited by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy is required. (Entry level doctorate of pharmacy is acceptable in lieu of a BS degree and is preferred). Current licensure by the Maryland State Board of Pharmacy is required.
- Completion of a pharmacy residency program or equivalent practice experience in an integrated health care system, which includes an acute care hospital, or equivalent, is preferred.
- Knowledge of generally accepted pharmacy principles, practices, and procedures; pharmacology and therapeutics; drug information systems are required.
- Possess the following skills: ability to identify, prevent and resolve drug-related problems; drug information retrieval; patient and family medication counseling skills; customer service skills.
- Ability to use computer system to manage patient information. Ability to operate other automated technology including robotics in support of the medication use process.
- Highly effective verbal communication skills are necessary in order to work with medical, nursing and various allied health staff in order to successfully provide optimal patient care.
- Ability to provide front-line management of pharmacy supportive personnel in order to optimize the medication use process.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on the assigned unit.
Additional Information
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