The Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Emergency Department is responsible for the provision of comprehensive clinical pharmacy services in the ED at Nicklaus Children's Hospital. This role will primarily be focused and based in the Emergency Department and will also have other responsibilities depending on departmental need. Clinical responsibilities for this role include but are not limited to; participation in critical and acute resuscitations, traumas, and codes, support in the selection, procurement, preparation, monitoring and administration of medications, prospective medication order review, medication reconciliation, discharge patient consultation, drug information and education, precepting and training of pharmacy staff, residents, and students, and policy and pathway development, implementation and review including pharmacokinetic and therapeutic consultation, clinical effectiveness program (CEP) involvement, quality improvement and medication safety. Job Specific Duties | - Performs and documents drug therapy monitoring and interventions onmedication dosing, administration, drug interactions, monitoring and adversereactions.
- Actively participates in clinical pharmacy program and services, and acts as aconsultant in areas of expertise.
- Responds to pediatric and adult codes/traumas in ED and throughoutorganization as assigned.
- Assists with admission reconciliation, discharge counseling, order processingand delivery to area of service.
- Attends and actively contributes to daily patient care activities, clinicalservices meetings, hospital committees, task forces and projects, includingprotocol/pathway development, order set development and optimization, andcost-savings and quality initiatives as assigned.
- Executes established policies, procedures and protocols to ensure safe,appropriate, cost-effective medication therapies for patients and recommendstherapeutic alternatives to medical staff as needed .
- Documents quality activities to achieve established metrics to meet standardsof DNV-GL accreditation, institutional, state and federal requirements oninterventions, adverse reactions, medication errors, contraindications, drug-drug interactions, drug-food interactions, allergies and appropriateness ofdrug and dose.
- Provides drug information through in-service education and daily support forpharmacy department staff, hospital clinical staff, medical residents andmedical staff and consultation with patients and families.
- Precepts and educates pharmacy residents and pharmacy students.
- Assists with training of pharmacy staff on code response and emergencypreparedness.
- Develops quality improvement projects and participates in the qualityimprovement and medication use review activities of the department.
- Demonstrates and maintains competency with safe use of pharmacy andhospital clinical information systems (Cerner, PyxisES, C2Safe, Baxa TPN DoseEdge, Vigilanz, MILT4, Lexicomp, and PC desktop systems).
- Functions as a Staff Clinical Pharmacist as assigned, and satisfactorilyperforms the essential duties of the role for medication management.
- Achieves cost savings targets and actively contributes to the pharmacydepartment's pharmacoeconomic efforts and formulary management andassists the department leadership with maintaining budget targets.
- Provides clinical support for multidisciplinary committees, including thePharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, through development of materials tosupport clinical evaluation of drugs, procedures, and processes including thecoordination and reporting of adverse drug reactions, pharmacist interventionsand other quality initiatives, within areas of direct responsibility.
- Advances the profession through publication, presentations at local, state, ornational meetings and providing community education.
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