Royal Oak - Full time, day shift
Job Summary
Provides leadership for all Pharmacy clinical activities within assigned area. Embraces the goals/objectives encompassing Pharmaceutical activities. Promotes team efforts with pharmacy and non-pharmacy personnel to manage and achieve departmental/corporate objectives. Provides support for staff development so that staff meets/exceeds minimum competency standards and encourages/supports staff to continue professional development. Demonstrates good judgment and decisiveness throughout daily activities. Maintains knowledge of current pharmaceutical practice and demonstrates a personal commitment to professional growth. Serves as role model of clinical excellence to staff pharmacists. Supports management by providing oversight, guidance and support for all assigned areas. Participates in the planning, organization, implementation and follow up of new programs and activities. A key role of the Clinical Pharmacy Specialist is to promote safe, appropriate, and cost effective medication therapy.
Essential Functions
- Assists in controlling and maintaining the pharmacy drug budget by assuring appropriate medication formulary use.
- Provides quality patient specific pharmaceutical care to patients and documents such interventions with respect to clinical outcomes and financial ramifications.
- Develops and oversees the data collection and review of information gathered for drug utilization review and/or research, quality improvement monitors, adverse drug event reporting, restricted drug policies and other processes as established by the department and/or organizational committee.
- Participates in direct patient care by providing drug information, interventions, and recommendations according to current evidence-based medication practices.
- Assists in coordination, development and assessment of organizational quality improvement activities. Assists in meeting goals for core indicators relating to pharmacy practice.
- Assists in decision-making process for formulary additions and deletions assuring processes are in place for safe administration, storage, distribution, preparation and use.
- Participates in the development of processes to assure investigational drugs and or drug studies are safely controlled, administered and destroyed when applicable.
- Participates in the clinical development, training and education of students, pharmacists, residents.
- Participates in the development and production of patient education programs, in-service lectures and seminars and continuing education programs for pharmacy, nurses, physicians and other healthcare practitioners related to medication therapy.
- Participates in the review, detection and prevention of medication errors and adverse drug events.
- Participates in organizational subcommittees or work groups.
- Performs operational and clinical duties of a clinical pharmacist when necessary.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Addendum
William Beaumont University Hospital is a 1100 bed Level 1 Trauma Center and Comprehensive Stroke Center offering a wide variety of medical services to a growing suburban community. This hematology - oncology position will include areas of responsibility for all phases of caring for hematology and oncology patients.
Patient Care Responsibilities
- Role provides opportunities with advanced pharmacotherapy training in a diverse inpatient oncology patient population, including solid tumor, hematologic malignancies, and cellular therapies.
- Provide patient care services as a member of an interprofessional team for the medical oncology, hematologic malignancies, and cellular therapy services.
- Daily rounding with the interdisciplinary hematology / oncology team serving as drug information resource and optimizing therapy while decisions are made, including on-call as needed.
- Review patient charts ensuring appropriateness of pharmacotherapy (dose adjustments, discontinuing unnecessary therapy, initiating needed drugs, antimicrobial stewardship, identifying opportunities for cheaper alternative agents etc.) and document and follow-up on events accordingly for the service.
- Assist with implementing treatment plans and ensuring communication/education to pharmacy staff as well as nursing to minimize errors and/or confusion.
- Transitions of care activities including admission medication reconciliation and discharge medication review.
- Educate patients on new medication starts.
- Manages daily patient medication problems and emergency situations as they arise and documents activities in the electronic health record appropriately (interventions, notes, handoffs, etc).
- Pharmacokinetic dosing consults (anticoagulants and antibiotics) for patients on service.
- Drug information resource, specifically in hematology - oncology pharmacotherapy related issues to pharmacists at RYO and other Corewell Health hospitals.
- Opportunity to interact with patients, nurses and physicians in the initiation, procurement, assessment, management and follow-up of patients on cancer treatment regimens.
Formulary and Quality Management
- Embraces system approach including development, multisite consensus, submission to corporate committees, implementation including policy software, IT Build, and educational roll out of protocols, guidelines, and policy development.
- Facilitate compliance with hematology oncology service line directives by evaluating and overseeing the appropriate use of high-cost and highly toxic therapies to assure suitable control and appropriateness of therapy.
- Actively participate in multidisciplinary hematology service meetings and tumor boards.
- Quality Management: Serve as a resource for pharmacists for complex Hematology - Oncology pharmacotherapy, manage medication shortages, conduct Medication Use Evaluations when assigned, and handle Patient Safety reports (QSR) and error reporting.
Education and Training
- Teaching is also an integral component of the program as WBUH for our PGY1/PGY2 residents and students.
- Provide updates in therapeutics to the hematology, oncology programs as needed via emails, presentations and one on one communication.
- Coordinate and deliver ongoing staff education for clinical staff pharmacists.
Qualifications
- Required Bachelor's Degree Pharm.D. or Bachelor degree in pharmacy.
- Preferred residency training.
- 3 years of relevant experience as a clinical pharmacist or pharmacy residency/fellowship preferred.
- LIC-Clinical Pharmacist - STATE_MI State of Michigan or eligible to obtain Upon Hire required.
- LIC-Pharmacist Controlled Substance - STATE_MI State of Michigan or eligible to obtain Upon Hire required.
Primary Location
SITE - Royal Oak Hospital - 3601 W 13 Mile Road - Royal Oak
Department Name
Pharmacy - Royal Oak
Employment Type
Full time
Shift
Day (United States of America)
Weekly Scheduled Hours
40
Hours of Work
7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Days Worked
Monday - Friday
Weekend Frequency
N/A
Corewell Health is committed to providing a safe environment for our team members, patients, visitors, and community. We require a drug-free workplace and require team members to comply with the MMR, Varicella, Tdap, and Influenza vaccine requirement if in an on-site or hybrid workplace category.
Corewell Health grants equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, religion, genetic information, marital status, height, weight, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected category.
An interconnected, collaborative culture where all are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work, is vital to the health of our organization. As a health system, we advocate for equity as we care for our patients, our communities, and each other.
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