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Form of work**This posting is for the 2023-2024 ASHP Accredited Postgraduate Year Two (PGY-2) Pharmacy Residency Program**
Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an 881-bed quaternary care academic medical center that is a joint venture between Baylor College of Medicine and CHI St. Luke’s Health. Located in the Texas Medical Center, the hospital is the home of the Texas Heart® Institute, a cardiovascular research and education institution founded in 1962 by Denton A. Cooley, MD. The hospital was the first facility in Texas and the Southwest designated a Magnet® hospital for Nursing Excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, receiving the award five consecutive times. Baylor St. Luke’s also has three community emergency centers offering adult and pediatric care for the Greater Houston area.
CHI St. Luke’s Health, now part of CommonSpirit Health formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health, has been serving our community since 1954. Operating 137 hospitals and more than 1,000 care sites across 21 states, making our services accessible to nearly 1 in 4 U.S. residents. We proudly provide a vast array of services that help us keep our community safe and healthy.
We offer the following benefits to support you and your family:
• Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
• Free Premium Membership to Care.com with preloaded credits for children and dependent adults
• Care for Caregivers: Resilience Through Adversity is a series of sessions designed to help caregivers build their resilience and advance their mental well-being during these difficult times
• Flexible spending accounts
• Voluntary Protection: Group Accident, Critical Illness, and Identity Theft
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Tuition Assistance for career growth and development
• Matching Retirement Programs
• Wellness Programs
Responsibilities
Provides integrated, contemporary pharmacy services to patients, to include the interpretation of medication orders, dispensing of pharmaceuticals, clinical monitoring and evaluation of drug therapy, and the provision of drug information to patients and healthcare providers.
- Reviews, interprets, and evaluates all medication orders for patients in all age groups.
- Maintains patient medication profiles and medication administration records in an automated pharmacy information system.
- Consults with and advises medical, nursing, and other healthcare providers regarding the prescribing, dispensing, or administration of pharmaceuticals to help resolve drug therapy related issues.
- Routinely monitors the patient’s total drug therapy for effectiveness, side effects, adverse reactions, toxicities, drug interactions, and incompatibilities.
- Participates actively in cardiopulmonary emergencies. Must be “code validated”
- Conducts assigned target drug monitoring programs, quality improvement initiatives and concurrent drug use evaluation activities as required.
- Performs and documents Pharmacist Intervention activities such as recommendations on drug product selection, dosage adjustments, and appropriate drug therapy as well as follow up.
- Obtains medication histories on selected patients and communicates pertinent information to the appropriate healthcare provider.
- Communicates with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers as necessary.
- Completes at least one major and one minor residency project focusing on appropriate drug therapy, improving patient outcomes, or performance improvement activities.
- Present at least one major seminar to the health professional staff.
- Review and write up at least one drug information question.
- Participates in special projects or performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
REQUIREMENTS:
- Registered Pharmacist with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy in good standing-(RPH)
- Aseptic Technique – Complete an ACPE approved 20 hour sterile products course within 90 days of hire
- Completion of ASHP Post Graduate Residency (PGY-1) program
REQUIREMENTS:
- Registered Pharmacist with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy in good standing-(RPH)
- Aseptic Technique – Complete an ACPE approved 20 hour sterile products course within 90 days of hire
- Completion of ASHP Post Graduate Residency (PGY-1) program
