Duties
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1. General Description of Assigned Duties:
- The Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner (CPP) practices in a major clinical area (primary care, psychiatry, medicine, geriatrics, etc.) in the health care organization. The incumbent functions as a mid-level practitioner and works with assigned providers and health care team(s) in designing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and modifying patient pharmacotherapy.
- The Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner is responsible for developing, organizing, and managing multiple complex programs (i.e. consultative, therapeutic drug monitoring, collaborative drug therapy management, quality assurance/utilization review, formulary management, drug information, etc.) for their assigned health care team(s) and Pharmacy Service.
2. Functions or Scopes of Practice:
- Clinical
- Evaluates and monitors medications for appropriateness of therapy and patient's response to therapy based on relevant therapeutic endpoints by means of patient interviews, physical and functional assessment, and diagnostic tests. Requests consultations or referrals to other health care professionals to render appropriate comprehensive care to the patient. Prescribes and modifies medication regimens in a safe, effective, and economical manner.
- Evaluates drug therapy through direct patient involvement, with clinical assessment and objective findings relating to patient's responses to drug therapy and communicating and documenting those findings, interventions, and recommendations to appropriate providers and in appropriate records (e.g. patient's medical record).
- Prescribes, continues, modifies, or discontinues drug therapy for both inpatients and outpatients in accordance with the individual's approved scope of practice and prescriptive authority.
- Education
- Maintains professional competency on drug therapies and innovations in pharmacy practice pertinent to the use of anticoagulants.
- Provides medication counseling to patients and/or caregivers. Evaluates the abilities of adult and geriatric patients to understand medication instructions and provides oral and written counseling on their drug therapy.
- Assists in the development, coordination and provision of drug therapy in service programs, staff development programs, patient education programs, and other system-wide drug information programs.
- Anticoagulation Program Management
- Serves as a leader and subject matter expert in the oversight, design, implementation, and function of the anticoagulation management program.
- Participates in quality assurance and medication use evaluation programs particularly as they pertain to anticoagulation therapy management.
- Manages the centralized Anticoagulation Clinic at VA Eastern Kansas Healthcare System (Leavenworth and Topeka divisions).
- Administrative
- Performs proper recordkeeping and maintains proper documentation when required or appropriate for all clinical activity and patient interventions.
- Ensures sensitive data for patient files, both printed and electronic, remain confidential.
- Provides professional guidance and leadership to their assigned work team(s) to deliver patient care services in accordance with established standards of practice.
- Research
- May sign and/or participate in research studies under FDA guidelines that have undergone review and approval by the Research & Development Committee and the Investigational Review Board.
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, Day Shift
Telework: Available, Situational/Ad-Hoc
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 000000
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job.
- All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- Subject to background/security investigation.
- Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- Participation in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program is a requirement for all Veterans Health Administration Health Care Personnel (HCP).
Qualifications
Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met.
Basic Requirements:
- Citizenship. Citizen of the United States.
- Education. Graduate of an Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) accredited College or School of Pharmacy with a baccalaureate degree in pharmacy (BS Pharmacy) and/or a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree.
- Licensure. Full, current and unrestricted license to practice pharmacy in a State, Territory, Commonwealth of the United States, or the District of Columbia.
- English Language Proficiency. Pharmacists must be proficient in spoken and written English.
May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation.
Grade Determinations:
Experience. In addition to the GS-12 requirements, must have 1 year of experience equivalent to the next lower grade level.
Preferred Experience: Completion of PGY1 Residency program; Ambulatory Care experience; Anticoagulation Medication management experience.
Physical Requirements: Heavy lifting (45 lbs. and over); reaching above shoulder; use of fingers; walking (3 hours per day); standing (6 hours per day); kneeling (2 hours per day); both legs required; ability for rapid mental and muscular coordination simultaneously; near vision correctable at 13" to 16"; far vision correctable in one eye to 20/20 and 20/40 in the other; ability to distinguish basic colors; hearing aid permitted.
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