Clinical Pharmacist I

Title: Clinical Pharmacist I
Location: Lake Charles, LA 70601
Duration: 13 weeks
Shift: Can vary and can be 8, 10, or 12-hour shifts depending on the day. Shifts options are 7AM-3:30PM, 8AM-4:30PM, 1PM-9PM, 2PM-10PM, 7AM-5PM, 11AM-9PM, 12 noon -10PM, 7AM-7PM or 8AM-8PM
Weekend Requirement: Rotating weekends
On Call Requirement : No call
Floating Requirement / Locations: No floating
Nurse / Patient Ratio
Dress Code: Navy blue scrubs
Summary: All pharmacists fill orders for drugs, monitor patient drug therapies and provide drug information. Pharmacists provide pharmacy services with compassion, excellence, and efficiency.
Experience needed: hospital pharmacy experience is a plus. Experience in treating 17 bed ICU, we have cardiac cath lab, an emergency department that stays busy, an inpatient behavioral health unit and we do lots of orthopedic surgery.
Education/Skills: Doctor of Pharmacy or BS Pharmacy degree required
Experience: Hospital experience preferred
REQUIRED Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications

• Pharmacy state licensure required ( LA license required )
• BLS via AHA required
• ACLS via AHA ( preferred )

Responsibilities:

• Meets expectations of the applicable client Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.

Operational Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepares and dispenses drug orders per physician according to established policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Interprets drug orders (verbal and written) and transcribes/verifies into computerized patient medication record accurately.
• Maintains accurate, complete patient drug record.
• Compounds and dispenses pharmaceuticals include non-sterile and sterile products, chemotherapy and parenteral nutrition products accurately.
• Issues controlled substances to patient care areas and maintain records as required by law and institutional policies.
• Provides services efficiently and in a timely fashion.
• Maintains current pharmacist license.
• Ensures applicable CE records and licensure are maintained in department files.
• Attend staff meetings.
• Completes all competency/skills assessment requirements.
• Supervises and directs pharmacy support personnel. Verifies the daily activities of pharmacy technicians
• Ambulatory care Pharmacist: Provides ambulatory pharmaceutical care services utilizing approved protocols and/or collaborative agreement with other providers, including managing patient drug therapy, anticoagulation management, providing patient education, and preparing and/or overseeing the preparation and dispensing of medications. Performs duties in the clinical areas assigned such as but not limited to anticoagulation clinics, intensive medical home, transition of care, Discharge Medication reconciliation, etc.

Clinical Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures safe, appropriate, cost-effective drug therapies for patients according to established policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Monitors drug therapy regimens for contraindications, drug-drug interactions, drug-food interactions, allergies and appropriateness of drug and dose.
• Assists with pharmacokinetics consult service and renal drug dosing per hospital protocol.
• Reads, extracts, and interprets information in patient medical records accurately.
• Detects and reports suspected adverse drug reactions accurately and in a timely manner.
• Sustains the hospital drug formulary, minimizing non-formulary procurements, utilizing therapeutic substitution protocols, and promoting rational drug therapy selection.
• Provides clinical consultation and clarification to practitioners as appropriate.
• Provides accurate, adequate, and timely drug information to the hospitals professional staff.
• Provides drug education to patients and their families per institutional protocol.
• Participates in the quality improvement and medication use review activities of the department. Collects data, conducts monitors and inspections, and maintains logs, records and other documentation as assigned.
• Conducts designated interventions as defined in department Clinical Intervention activities (IV to PO, Renal Dosing, Pharmacokinetic dosing support, Anticoagulation). Baseline departmental standards for reporting interventions for clinical productivity as defined by departmental goals.
• Participates in antibiotic stewardship, opioid stewardship, and shortage management activities as assigned.
• Attends interdisciplinary rounds when assigned.
• Provides services efficiently and in a timely fashion.

Occupational Hazards

• Potential for exposure to hazardous and toxic substances (including chemotherapeutic, cytotoxic drugs and cleaning solutions), sticks or cuts by needles and other sharp items.
• Risk 0 exposure category.
• Potential for musculoskeletal injuries if proper lifting and carrying techniques are not used.
• Potential exposure to biologic material when participating in direct patient care activities (e.g., patient education, code attendance).