Primary Location:
UofL Hospital - UMC
Address:
530 South Jackson Street
Louisville, KY 40202
Shift:
First Shift (United States of America)
Job Description Summary:
UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with five hospitals, four medical centers, nearly 200 physician practice locations, more than 700 providers, the Frazier Rehab Institute and Brown Cancer Center.
With more than 12,000 team members—physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists and other highly skilled health care professionals—UofL Health is focused on one mission: delivering patient-centered care to each and every patient each and every day.
Job Description:
The Clinical Pharmacy provides specialized pharmaceutical services to improve drug usage and therapeutic outcomes for patients. The Clinical Pharmacy actively participates in multidisciplinary patient care rounds, medication order evaluation and verification, drug distribution, technician supervision, and clinical services including medication histories, pharmacokinetic dosing, drug information requests, and patient counseling to ensure the best medication therapy outcomes. The Clinical Pharmacy will participate in development of new programs, services, practices, and facilitate scholarly and professional development activities in their area of expertise
Major job responsibilities include: medication order evaluation (to include but not limited to appropriateness and effectiveness) and verification, drug distribution support, technician supervision, clinical intervention, formulary management, and resource for nursing and physician medication related inquiries. The Clinical Pharmacy Specialist will participate in the design, implementation, and monitoring associated with the provision of safe, effective and economical pharmacotherapy for all patients. They will serve as a subject matter expert collaborating with pharmacy leadership in the development and implementation of clinical pharmacy services and ensure compliance with policies and procedures at UofL Health.
Essential Functions:
Delivers comprehensive pharmaceutical care to patients
Works collaboratively with other clinicians and health-care providers to implement and maintain innovative disease management programs and clinical pharmacy services
Actively participates in multidisciplinary patient care rounds
Reviews medication orders for accuracy, appropriateness and efficacy
Documents all pharmacy interventions in patient electronic medical record and integrated clinical decision support system
Monitors drug therapy to evaluate appropriateness of use, dose, dosage form, regimen, route, therapeutic duplication, and drug interactions
Provides pharmacokinetic consultations and other dosing recommendations as required
Prevents, detects, monitors, documents, and reports adverse drug reactions and medications errors
Participates in the drug therapy management of medical emergencies (code blue, code stroke, etc.)
Performs both admission history and discharge medication review and/or counseling in order to facilitate the admission/discharge/transfer of patients
Provides operational support to Clinical Staff Pharmacists as determined by departmental need
Responds to drug information requests and optimize pharmacotherapy regimens utilizing current evidence-based literature
Promotes and demonstrates rational, cost-effective drug therapy
Participates in formulary management by implementing therapeutic interchanges and enforcing the non-formulary ordering process
Assists in the procurement of medication when necessary, including verification of home medication supply, when applicable
Facilitates the implementation of clinical and operational initiatives
Documents clinical consultations and cost avoidance as part of the departmental clinical documentation program
Prepares formulary review and drug use evaluations of medications used in the area of clinical expertise for presentation to the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
Assists pharmacy…