Overview

You Matter Here! Heywood Healthcare values our employees! We offer competitive wages, great benefits and generous earned time off. Come work where you will matter!

Hours: 40 Hours, Days/Evenings, Rotating weekends, Rotating holidays

 

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Accurately collects and validates the home medication list through patient interview and primary source verification with dispensing pharmacy, primary care physician or specialists

• Monitors all patient medication orders for correctness of therapy, while considering allergies, dose, concurrent medications, interactions and diagnosis.

• Provides patient education throughout the hospitalization
• Assess patient health care literacy and modifies teaching methods appropriate to educational level
• Identifies barriers to medication adherence and develops action plans to mitigate patient risk and foster adherence.
• Develops comprehensive medication management plans and communicates this plan to hospitalists and primary care physicians 
• Contacts prescriber about questionable orders and provides information on the correct therapy, noting formulary alternatives when indicated
• Educates clinicians regarding medications.
• Prevent, detect, monitor, document and report adverse drug reactions and medication errors
• Facilitates compliance with core measures, prospective formulary management and appropriate documentation in the medical record 
• Participates in ICU rounds and interdisciplinary rounds and other committees as needed. 

• Identifies variations from expected findings and understands the significance for such variations.

• Identifies variations from expected findings and understands the significance for such variations.

• Coordinates care with other healthcare providers.

• When appropriate, delegates to other healthcare providers.

• Assesses and reassesses the patient’s condition, status and progress.

• Prioritizes, reprioritizes, and modifies the plan of care based upon patient assessment and patient condition.

• Documents the implementation of the plan of care and any adverse and/or unexpected events or outcomes.

Statement of Other Duties:This document describes the major duties and responsibilities for this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that employees may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described.

Qualifications

Job Requirements

Minimum Education

• B.S. Pharmacy and current MA licensure. 

 Required Skills

• Clinical background to help develop programs
• Good communication skills to relate with medical and nursing staff.