Emergency Medicine Pharmacist

Summary

Job Description:

Clinical Pharmacist Specialists are responsible and accountable for the provision of safe, effective, and prompt medication therapy. Through various assignments within the department, they provide support of centralized and decentralized medication use systems as well as deliver optimal medication therapy to patients within their specialty. All pharmacists are responsible for drug preparation and distribution for medications; evaluating, inputting and verification of medication orders; assisting providers and other health care professionals by serving as a drug information resource; monitoring and managing medication regimens per protocol or per consult; and managing pharmacy inventory.

Essential Duties:

• Provides verbal and written consultations concerning medication therapy on a daily basis.
• Provides education to patients, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare team members as requested.
• Initiates, documents, and participates in department activities that promote positive patient outcomes. These activities may include, but are not limited to: MUE, ADR reporting, resolving drug therapy questions, therapeutic drug monitoring, identifying drug interactions and allergies, direct contact with prescribers to clarify major problem orders, and non-formulary drug requests.
• Responds to medical emergencies in department and throughout hospital as needed including Stroke Alerts and Code Blues.
• Assist in procedural sedations as well as rapid sequence intubations to ensure safe and accurate delivery of high risk medications.
• Ensures antibiotic stewardship activities and issues are communicated with the ED practitioners, regarding opportunities to optimize antimicrobial utilization and help reduce inappropriate antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance.
• Assist nursing in the utilization of programmable pumps to promote safe drug administration in the ED. * ACLS required.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree
• Three Years Experience
• Kentucky a Pharmacist License
• Must obtain ACLS within 6 months
• Must obtain Board Certification within 1 year
• Preferred Doctor of Pharmacy (D.P.)

Graduated of accredited College of Pharmacy, one of the following is required:

• Board Certification in Infectious Diseases within 3 years of hire
• Certification/education, such as that offered by nationally recognized antimicrobial stewardship education programs, within 3 years of hire
• Completion of PGY-2 Infectious Diseases ASHP-accredited Pharmacy Residency

Benefits:

• Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off available for use upon hire
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement plans with company match