Clinical Pharmacist - Medication Safety

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Provides clinical pharmacy services including but not limited to assessment, monitoring and optimization of patient specific pharmaceutical care. Serves as a departmental and organizational resource in area(s) of expertise and provides educational programming and staff development to physicians, pharmacists, nurses and other practitioners in assigned specialty area. Serves all patient populations including neonates, pediatrics, adolescents, adults and geriatrics.

Additional details about the position include involvement in medication safety improvement projects, data collection/analysis, review of adverse drug events, IV pump clinical process and safety, creating and presenting staff education focused on medication safety topics, root-cause analysis and quality improvement processes, review of ISMP medication safety alerts and participating in both TJC preparation and eCQM compliance.

REQUIRED:

1. Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy.
2. Doctor of Pharmacy, OR
1. Master's Degree with completion of a residency in the assigned clinical area or equivalent experience.
3. Two (2) years previous hospital pharmacy experience.
4. Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist - One (1) year previous hospital experience and two (2) years previous outpatient experience.

PREFERRED:

1. Certification by Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) is strongly encouraged in the clinical practice specialty - Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS), Board Certified Nutrition Support Pharmacist (BCNSP), Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist (BCOP), etc.