Clinical Pharmacist Specialist-Critical Care - Sharp Memorial Hospital - Day Shift - Full Time

About this role

Hours :

Shift Start Time: Variable Shift End Time: Variable

AWS Hours Requirement: 8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements: As Needed

On-Call Required: No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum): $77.910 - $100.530 - $112.590   The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position.  The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.  

What You Will Do To provide the professional, clinical and technical knowledge, and skills and expertise required for the provision of comprehensive pharmaceutical care that supports the mission, values and philosophy of Pharmacy Services and Sharp HealthCare.

Required Qualifications • California Pharmacist License - CA State Board of Pharmacy -REQUIRED • AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED • ACLS Certification (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications • Completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency with experience in critical care or a specialized clinical residency in critical care/emergency care. • Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association -PREFERRED • BPS Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties -PREFERRED

Other Qualification Requirements • Current license to practice pharmacy in the state of California without restriction or probation.

Essential Functions

• Clinical advisory services Demonstrates pro-active involvement with advisory service activities and displays follow-through and contribution to advisory service outcomes as evidenced by (including but not limited to): (e.g. Renal Target Monitoring, Antibiotic Surveillance Team, Medication Usage Evaluations and other programs or initiatives specific to the entity). Qualitative participation in clinical intervention program through consistent issue identification, provision of reliable best practice/literature based recommendations, follow-through with prescribing and other clinicians. Quantitative work, measured by the completion and submission of electronic forms consistent with the average established for each pharmacy department/shift. Consistently responds to and documents drug information requests promptly and professionally. Participates in ongoing data collection for MUE. Demonstrates knowledge and competency of chemotherapy dosing, monitoring, and established guidelines. Reviews patient medication profiles for appropriateness of drug therapy, therapeutic duplications, allergies, weight, height, minimum and maximum dosing guidelines, age specific requirements, renal and hepatic function, drug interactions and other pertinent factors to individualize patients' medication dosing requirements within boundaries approved by P&T/T&S committees. Identifies, resolves and documents prescribing, formulary and therapeutic issues through integration of patient variables, clinical status, drug knowledge, and professional judgment. Communicates with nurses and physicians in a timely manner about therapeutic issues or problems. Follows up on formulary compliance issues and/or communicates issues to management. Participates in Code-Blue emergencies as required, mixes and labels medications as needed, and provides information; Assures that pharmacy code-blue billing is completed where appropriate and restocks medications. Consistently participating in financial pillar/cost savings measures (e.g. IV to PO conversions, formulary adherence, etc.). • Clinical consult services Certification/Recertification, Participation, Knowledge: Demonstrates competency in performing formal clinical consults, and patient monitoring practices as approved by the P&T (T&S) Committee(s). Has met minimum certification/recertification requirements as outlined in the Pharmacy Certification Process For Formal pharmacotherapy Consult and Advisory Services policy and procedure for consult services offered at entity. Participates in Clinical Consult Services for example, Pharmacokinetics, Nutrition Support, Ortho Coumadin, Pain Management, and other services specific to the entity. Demonstrates knowledge of consult services as evidenced by attainment of consult service goals and proper documentation of actions, recommendations, and patient outcomes on the pharmacy monitoring forms. Performs by leaving concise, objective, legible, and professional notes in the patient's clinical chart. Consistently demonstrates ability to complete formal clinical workload assigned during shift as evidenced by completing all consults and advisory services in a timely manner. • Medication administration Provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care to the medical and surgical ICUs: Participate in daily patient care activities such as prospectively evaluating all medication orders for accuracy and appropriateness. Discuss medication order clarifications with the prescriber and inform others of medication order changes. Monitor critical care drug therapy to evaluate appropriateness of use, dose, dosage form, regimen, route, therapeutic duplication, and drug interactions (vasopressors, antihypertensive drips, sedation drips). Provide pharmacokinetic consultations and other dosing as required. Participate in the drug therapy management of medical emergencies (e.g. cardiac arrest and other code blue situations, stroke, etc.). Work corroboratively with other clinicians and health-care providers to implement and maintain innovative disease management programs and clinical pharmacy services. Participate in the development of medication use management programs within Sharp Healthcare including clinical guidelines, critical pathways,

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