Clinical Pharmacist I

Min: USD $51.18/Hr. Max: USD $81.89/Hr. Overview: p style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"Unit based clinical pharmacists provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care with the primary goal to improve patient outcomes.  Clinical pharmacists will promote and improve the use of safe, effective, and evidence-based medications through evaluation of all aspects of patient care.  Clinical pharmacists monitor therapies for each patient and collaborate with other healthcare providers to identify optimal medication related care. /span/pp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"Schedule/span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"Full Time, Day/Evening Shift /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"$15,000 Sign-on Bonus! /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"Contact me if interested at huff.erin@mhsil.com or schedule a call with me to discuss at/span/pp style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" a href="https://memorialhealthil.as.me/ErinHuff" target="_blank" rel="noopener"https://memorialhealthil.as.me/ErinHuff/a/span/p Qualifications: p style="margin: 0px;"strongspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"emEducation:/em/span/strong/pullispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Graduate of an ACPE-accredited School of Pharmacy required/span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Doctor of Pharmacy degree (Pharm.D.) required/spanulli style="margin-left: 1.0in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy with 5 years hospital based, patient care experience, considered in lieu of Pharm.D. /span/li/ul/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"Advanced Pharmacy Residency Training (PGY1/2) preferred/span/pp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"strongspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"emLicensure/Certification/Registry:/em/span/strong/pullispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Licensed pharmacist in the State of Illinois required/span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Board Certification in Pharmacotherapy (BCPS) required/span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"PGY-1 residency accepted in lieu of BCPS/span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"BCPS certification required within 12 months of hire/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"Basic Life Support (BLS) required/span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"strongspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"emExperience:/em/span/strong/pullispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Minimum of three years relevant hospital based, patient care experience required/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"Completion of a PGY-1 pharmacy residency program will satisfy this requirement/span/li/ul Responsibilities: p style="margin: 0px;" /polli style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Work collaboratively with physicians, residents and other healthcare providers to promote and improve safe medication use/span/li/olullispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Consult with physicians and other health care providers to develop and implement a medication plan that meets the overall goals of patient care established by the health care team/span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Participates in interdisciplinary patient care rounds as appropriate and required /span/lilispan style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"In the absence of the lead clinical pharmacist, represents pharmacy at select interdepartmental meetings (i.e. Unit Base Council Meetings) as needed/span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pol start="2"li style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Promotes and demonstrates rational, cost effective drug therapy through effective, criteria based management of medications /span/li/olp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pol start="3"li style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Performs the basic clinical and operational functions to care for patients on most medical units. /span/li/olp style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pol start="4"li style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Provide patient specific medication use teaching in high risk patients (i.e. Poly-pharmacy, pediatric patients, patients on high risk medications or who have been identified as high risk for readmission)/span/li/olp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pol start="5"li style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Ensures appropriateness, effectiveness, and safety of each patient’s medication regimen in order to manage all aspects of medication use for patients on the units served/span/li/olp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pol start="6"li style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Documents all recommendations and interventions in the electronic medical chart/span/li/olp style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pol start="7"li style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Prevent, detect, monitor, and report adverse events (medication errors and adverse reactions)./span/li/olp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pol start="8"li style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Promotes evidence based, medication related care especially in the areas of Heart Failure, Stroke, AMI, Pneumonia, Sepsis and with use of all antimicrobial agents/span/li/olp style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pol start="9"li style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Provides patient education as needed and serves as a resource for accurate and timely Drug/span/li/olp style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Information for all healthcare providers/span/pp style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pol start="10"li style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Serves as an educational resource for pharmacy colleagues, students, residents, physicians, nurses and other health care professionals./span/li/olp style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pol start="11"li style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Performs order entry, order verification or clinical order review/span/li/olp style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pol start="12"li style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Actively participates in the professional development of pharmacy students and pharmacy residents as required/span/li/olp style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pol start="13"li style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Ensures compliance with all local, state and regulatory requirements and practices within Springfield Memorial Hospital’s policies and procedures. /span/li/olp style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pol start="14"li style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Assists lead clinical pharmacist or participates in at least 1 quality improvement initiative on an annual basis/span/li/olp style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pol start="15"li style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Maintains professional growth and development through continuing education, seminars, workshops and professional affiliations. /span/li/olp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pol start="16"li style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Provide formal medication related consultations (i.e. Pharmacokinetic consultations) as required/span/li/olp style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pol start="17"li style="margin-left: .25in;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"Performs other related work as required or requested./span/li/olp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" /span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"emThe intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job.  Incumbents may be requested to perform tasks other than those specifically presented in this description./em/span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; 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