Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Ambulatory Care Pharmacy ( Job Number: 166988 )
Location: Honolulu Hawaii
Description: Kaiser Permanente is presently looking of Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Ambulatory Care Pharmacy ( Job Number: 166988 ) right now, this position will be placed in Hawaii. More details about this position opportunity please give attention to these descriptions. Consults with pharmacy leadership, physicians and interdisciplinary team members o! n the development, implementation and utilization of approved protocols to provide pharmaceutical care. Manages the development and/or implementation of regional drug initiatives or other formulary management activities. Serves as a primary preceptor for the pharmacy student and residency program. Provides pharmaceutical care by performing various patient-focused clinical, educational, informative, and distributive functions in ambulatory care as an interdisciplinary team member in support of patients, practitioners, and ancillary staff. Ensures appropriate, cost-effective drug utilization while maintaining and enhancing patient care.
Essential Functions:
- Takes leadership role in development, implementation, and coordination of regional, hospital, or hospital-based drug initiatives or other formulary management activities
- Researches and organizes patient-specific information; documents patient medication histories; recommends or reviews! laboratory tests to assess patient response to drug therapy; ! identifies medication therapy problems as appropriate
- Designs appropriate pharmacotherapeutic regimens; integrates patient-specific disease and drug information, current practice standards, ethical issues, and quality-of-life issues, and pharmacoeconomic principles
- Recommends pharmacotherapeutic regimens and corresponding monitoring plans to prescribers in way that is systematic, logical, and secures consensus from prescriber and patient; utilizes patient interview/assessment skills, current literature-supported evidence and practices, drug initiative information, and established protocols
- Monitors data and modifies pharmacotherapeutic plans as necessary
- May perform limited physical examinations, such as blood pressure and glucose measurement, for the purpose of providing medication management services
- Documents pharmaceutical care activities in patients' medical records or clinical information system
- Establishes relatio! nships with physicians and facility leaders to successfully partner on drug therapy issues; balances cost and quality issues
- Participates in establishing disease state management protocols in coordination with HPMG physicians, Clinic Nursing, Pharmacy and Therapeutics committee
- Participates, as appropriate, in development and/or implementation of regional drug initiatives or other formulary management activities
- Provides patient-specific verbal or written consultations, including pharmacotherapy and pharmacokinetic, to healthcare practitioners
- Provides pharmaceutical care services for defined high risk patient populations; ensures continuity of pharmaceutical care and optimal utilization of resources to and from acute and ambulatory patient-care settings; collaborates with inpatient/outpatient pharmacist or established Regional disease management program(s) for follow-up with high-risk discharges
- Designs effective medication-use ! education for patients and caregivers; provides one-on-one counseling t! o patients and caregivers, including information on drug therapy, adverse effects, compliance, appropriate use, and handling
- Adapts effective strategies for communicating with non-English speaking patients or those who are otherwise impaired (e.g., blind, deaf, cognitively impaired, illiterate)
- Leads regional medication management and formulary education programs to promote appropriate, cost-effective prescribing
- Additional essential functions as listed in the complete job description
Basic Qualifications:
- Graduate from an accredited pharmacy college recognized by the American Council of Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE)
- Completion of an emergency contraception training course approved by the American Council of Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE), curriculum-based programs from an ACPE-accredited college of pharmacy, applicable state or local health department programs, or programs recogni! zed by the board of pharmacy
- Licensed pharmacists who have completed a PGY1 residency OR PGY2 residency OR Pharmacy Fellowship OR licensed pharmacists who have not completed a PGY1 residency but must demonstrate mastery of the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and abilities expected of one who has completed a PGY1 residency and have a minimum of three years of pharmacy practice experience
- Valid Hawaii Pharmacist license (must meet education requirement(s) for Hawaii State licensure)
- Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) certification offered by the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties (BPS) OR successful attainment of BCPS** certification within 3 (three) years after date of hire
Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist - Board Certified in Pharmacotherapy or Ambulatory Care Pharmacy
Inpatient - Board Certified in Pharmacotherapy
- Demonstra! ted knowledge of related federal, state and local regulations and accre! ditation requirements including The Joint Commission standards and ability to safely handle and/or prepare various pharmaceutical compounds (e.g., chemotherapeutic agents, biologicals)
- Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from a school recognized by the American Council of Pharmaceutical Education
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This position starts available on: Fri, 31 May 2013 22:31:18 GMT
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