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Form of workWho We Are:St. Johns Episcopal Hospital is the only hospital providing emergency and ambulatory care to the densely populated, culturally and economically diverse, and medically underserved populations of the Rockaways and Five Towns in southern Queens County and southwestern Nassau County, New York. Celebrating over 110 years of community care, the 257-bed facility provides people of all faiths with comprehensive preventive, diagnostic treatment and rehabilitative services, regardless of ability to pay.Come Grow With Us!Type: Full-TimeShift: 8;00 AM-4PMHours: Days (weekends when applicable)Pay: $71.79-$74.57The clinical staff pharmacist is responsible and accountable for the provision of safe,effective, and prompt medication therapy.
Through various assignments within the department, theclinical staff pharmacist will provide support of centralized and decentralized medication-use systems aswell as deliver optimal medication therapy to patients with a broad range of disease states. The clinicalstaff pharmacist will be proficient in providing direct patient-centered care and integrated pharmacyoperational services in decentralized practice settings such as the emergency department, critical careunits, and general medicine or surgical floors working alongside physicians, nurses, and other hospitalpersonnel. In addition, the clinical staff pharmacist will provide medication education to hospital staffand serve as preceptors for doctor of pharmacy students and pharmacy residents.
Daily participation inquality improvement initiatives such as transitions of care, population health, and antibiotic stewardshipis expected.Job Summary* Leads assigned patient service lines, clinical areas, and therapeutic programs* Facilitates pharmaceutical care services, direct patient care programs, medication utilization systems within assigned services and care areas to assure drug utilization activities are aligned with patient care needs, evidence-based best practices, and regulatory standards Designs and implements stewardship activities and surveillance programs* Tracks and evaluates assigned pharmacy programs for operational, quality, and financial efficiency and routinely benchmarks against local and national best practices* Actively identifies practice related issues which require evaluation and facilitate clinical research projects, quality improvement initiatives, or healthcare provider education as needed to advance practice* Develops and oversees policies and procedures for drug usage and dispensing* Assures pharmacy is an integral part of the health-care delivery system and facilitates enhancement and expansion of pharmacy services* Delivers direct patient care and clinical practice* Works as an active member of multidisciplinary team through rounding and collaborates with healthcare providers within decentralized patient care areas* Identifies high-risk patients and implements interventions to improve quality and safety* Makes appropriate evidence-based, patient-centered medication recommendations* Participates in the management of medical emergencies* Provides discharge medication review, reconciliation, and counseling as appropriate* Provides pharmaceutical services throughout hospital* Provides accurate, safe, timely, and appropriate medication therapy based on patient* age and needs* Completes critical patient monitoring and reviews patient profile/chart to identify, mitigate drug-related problems, improper drug or dose selection, sub therapeutic dosage, over dosage, adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, failure to receive drugs, untreated indications, medication use without an indication, and treatment failures* Communicates effectively and appropriately with healthcare providers and caregivers and assures continuity of pharmaceutical care between shifts and among staff* Actively participates in stewardship activities and restricted medication programs* Participates in pharmacy operations and medication dispensing* Maintains proficiency in and actively engages in operational programs and central dispensing pharmacies as appropriate for job assignment* Facilitates specialty medication dispensing procedures including but not limited to* chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, controlled substances, etc. as appropriate for assignment* Facilitates experiential education and practice advancement* Maintains proficiency in preceptor roles and actively emulates education/mentorship skills* Develops student, resident, and staff training experiences and competencies and creates new relationships for teaching and training opportunities* Prepares clinical pearls for department meetings* Precept doctor of pharmacy students on hospital and clinical rotations* Preceptor pharmacy resident on clinical rotations* Identifies, designs, and implements improvements in the medication-use system to advance patient safety, maximize therapeutic outcomes, or control costsQualifications/Requirements:* Graduate from an approved School of Pharmacy.* Must possess current license to practice as registered pharmacist in N.Y.S* Must fulfill NY State required continuing education for pharmacist.* Completion of 1 year Pharmacy internship.* Ability to bend, stretch, and reach necessary for handling/fingering labels, vials, and apparatus used for compounding medications.* Verbal ability is needed to interpret and and understand written prescriptions, formularies, and reference texts, as well as for presenting data and information on pharmaceuticals to physicians, staff and public.raduate of an ACPE accredited College of Pharmacy with Doctor of Pharmacy degreeCompletion of ASHP accredited PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency
