Description
Overview
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Pharmacy has a Part-Time opening for a Clinical Pharmacist to support our Retail Pharmacy Call Center team. Answering calls for one home delivery and two retail pick-up locations, the clinical pharmacist communicates directly with patients, pharmacy technicians, providers, and nursing teams to verify and process prescriptions, perform patient and caregiver counseling, troubleshoot insurance issues, and triage patient questions/concerns.
Engages patients and healthcare professionals to efficiently and effectively maximize therapeutic outcomes and is responsible for one or more of the following tasks: dispenses medications, monitors patients' drug therapies, works under collaborative practice agreement or per protocol, and provides consultation and education to patients and other staff.
Schedule: Saturday and Sunday, 8 hr shift.
Responsibilities
- Gathers a complete medication history and reconciles medication lists as applicable and appropriate.
- Completes a comprehensive medication review to make evidence-based recommendations to ensure medications are necessary, safe and cost effective.
- Identifies and records suspected adverse drug reactions, adherence gaps to medications and barriers to patient adherence.
- If not practicing under a collaborative practice agreement or an approved protocol, contacts providers when there appears to be a possibility of unsafe or inappropriate medication use due to factors including, but not limited to: allergy, medical condition, drug interactions, dosing, and method of administration. Accurately documents all clinical activities and interventions in the electronic record.
- Serves as a consultation resource to medical professionals and answers inquiries on drug therapy and drug products.
- Consults patients and caretakers on all aspects of medication therapy when necessary.
- Assists in discharge planning when requested. Counsels patients and caretakers on proper drug administration, potential drug side effects, interactions and precautions. Helps locate medication supplies not generally available.
- Contributes to the development, maintenance and management of medication related guidelines defined by protocol or collaborative practice agreements.
- Detects and reports medication errors and near misses.
- Ensures readiness for regulatory and accreditation surveys.
- Participates in the quality improvement and medication use review activities of the department.
- Prepares and delivers presentations to facilitate learning or disseminate evidence-based best practice to pharmacists, nurses, physicians, other healthcare professionals in the hospital or ambulatory/outpatient settings.
- Utilizes a solution based approach to ensure heightened patient satisfaction and care.
- Anticipates patient needs and proactively identify solutions.
- Communicates effectively between departments and teams to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
- Actively participates in driving all programs and initiatives to improve patient quality of care, medication compliance, medication adherence and overall efficiency.
- Pursues and maintains certifications necessary to remain compliant with changes to system / department accreditations and standards.
- Participates in the ordering and receiving of controlled substances and other medications as appropriate.
- Effectively utilizes and supervise technicians to maintain an accurate and efficient pharmacy system. Re-direct staff when necessary to ensure service performance goals are met.
- Uses professional judgment to resolve complaints. Act as pharmacist-in-charge in the absence of pharmacy managers and supervisors.
- Outpatient:
- Performs all duties of a registered pharmacist in the state of NH including providing vaccinations approved for administration by the NH Board of Pharmacy. This requirement causes a regular, or frequent potential occupational exposure to blood or bodily fluids and is assigned a Level 1 Classification for occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens. The employee may be expected to render medical assistance as part of their job description. Bloodborne pathogen training is required and hepatitis B vaccinations will be offered.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Graduate of an ACPE-accredited School of Pharmacy with a Bachelor's of Science in Pharmacy
- Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D) degree preferred.
- Completion of a post-graduate residency and/or board certified preferred.
- Must be able to work independently with minimal direct supervision, to set
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