Pharmacist-Emergency Medicine - Sharp Chula Vista - Night Shift - Full Time

Hours :

Shift Start Time:

Variable Shift End Time:

Variable

AWS Hours Requirement:

8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements:

As Needed

On-Call Required:

No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):

$77.910 - $100.530 - $112.590

The stated pay scale reflects the range as defined by the collective bargaining agreement between Sharp HealthCare and UNAC Professional. Placement within the range is based on years of experience in alignment with the CBA.

• What You Will Do
• To provide the professional, clinical and technical knowledge, and skills and expertise required for the provision of comprehensive pharmaceutical care that supports the mission, values and philosophy of Pharmacy Services and Sharp HealthCare.

• Required Qualifications
• •Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)
• •ACLS Certification (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

California Pharmacist License - CA State Board of Pharmacy -REQUIRED

• Preferred Qualifications
• •Advanced training: completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency with experience in Emergency Department practice or a specialized clinical residency in critical care/emergency care.
• •Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association -PREFERRED

• Other Qualification Requirements
• •Prefer Board Certification in Pharmacotherapy (BCPS) and maintain competency.

Essential Functions

• •Clinical Advisory Services
• Demonstrates pro-active involvement with advisory service activities and displays follow-through and contribution to advisory service outcomes as evidenced by (including but not limited to): (e.g. Renal Target Monitoring, Antibiotic Surveillance Team, Medication Usage Evaluations and other programs or initiatives specific to the entity).
• - Qualitative participation in clinical intervention program through consistent issue identification, provision of reliable best practice/literature based recommendations, follow-through with prescribing and other clinicians.
• - Quantitative work, measured by the completion and submission of electronic forms consistent with the average established for each pharmacy department/shift.
• - Consistently responds to and documents drug information requests promptly and professionally.
• - Participates in ongoing data collection for MUE.
• - Demonstrates knowledge and competency of chemotherapy dosing, monitoring, and established guidelines.
• - Reviews patient medication profiles for appropriateness of drug therapy, therapeutic duplications, allergies, weight, height, minimum and maximum dosing guidelines, age specific requirements, renal and hepatic function, drug interactions and other pertinent factors to individualize patients' medication dosing requirements within boundaries approved by P and T /T and S committees.
• - Identifies, resolves and documents prescribing, formulary and therapeutic issues through integration of patient variables, clinical status, drug knowledge, and professional judgment.
• - Communicates with nurses and physicians in a timely manner about therapeutic issues or problems.
• - Follows up on formulary compliance issues and/or communicates issues to management.
• - Participates in Code-Blue emergencies as required, mixes and labels medications as needed, and provides information; Assures that pharmacy code-blue billing is completed where appropriate and restocks medications.
• - Consistently participating in financial pillar/cost savings measures (e.g. IV to PO conversions, formulary adherence, etc).
• Characteristics for GREAT performance - meets standards within this section plus some or all of the following:
• - Certification in an area of specialty recognized by in the industry/ASHP (e.g. ACLS, PALS, BCPS, Nutrition).
• - Develops/Co-develops best practice and literature based recommendations; shares and presents information to colleagues.
• - Develops concept, criteria, measurement process for a PI project (i.e. MUE, DMAIC process, FMEA, lean six sigma, etc).
• - Performs MUE monitoring, analysis of findings; preparation of final - report; shares findings and presents to supervisory committee(s).
• - Identifies, Develops/Co-develops process improvement (PI) opportunities and is an integral participant in the implementation of a PI process or initiative.

• •Clinical Consult Services
• Certification/Recertification, Participation, Knowledge: Demonstrates competency in performing formal clinical consults, and patient monitoring practices as approved by the P and T (T and S) Committee(s):
• - Has met minimum certification/recertification requirements as outlined in the Pharmacy Certification Process for Formal Pharmacotherapy Consult and Advisory Services policy and procedure for consult services offered at entity.
• - Participates in Clinical Consult Services for example, Pharmacokinetics, Nutrition Support, Ortho Coumadin, Pain Management, and other services specific to the entity.
• - Demonstrates knowledge of consult services as evidenced by attainment of consult service goals and proper documentation of actions, recommendations, and patient outcomes on the pharmacy monitoring forms.
• - Performs by leaving concise, objective, legible, and professional notes in the patient's clinical chart.
• - Consistently demonstrates ability to complete formal clinical workload assigned during shift as evidenced by completing all consults and advisory services in a timely manner.
• Characteristics for GREAT performance - meets standards within this section plus some or all of the following (including but not limited to):
• - Actively participates in the training/mentoring of others to perform all aspects of a given Pharmacy consult service.
• - Actively participates in the presenting of students and in the training and restoring of residents.
• - Involved and assists with measuring Quality Assurance indicators for a clinical consult service.
• - Assists in the certification/recertification of staff.
• - Identifies, Develops/Co-develops process improvement (PI) opportunities, and/or new protocols, and is an integral participant in the implementation of a PI process or initiative (this may be as simple as developing a cheat sheet, or coming up with an improvement to the monitoring form).

• •Emergency Department Pharmaceutical Care
• Provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care to Emergency Department:
• - Participate in daily patient care activities such as reviewing medication orders for accuracy and appropriateness.
• - Discuss medication order clarifications with the ER or admitting prescriber and inform others of medication order changes.
• - Monitor critical care drug therapy to evaluate appropriateness of use, dose, dosage form, regimen, route, therapeutic duplication, and drug interactions (vasopressors, antihypertensive drips, sedation drips).
• - Provide pharmacokinetic consultations and other dosing as required.
• - Participate in the drug therapy management of medical emergencies (code, minor trauma, stroke, snake bite).
• - Work corroboratively with other clinicians and health-care providers to implement and maintain innovative disease management programs and clinical pharmacy services.
• - Participate in the development of medication use management programs within Sharp Healthcare including clinical guidelines, critical pathways, disease management, and drug use programs.
• Provide operational support in the Emergency Department and Central Pharmacy as determined by departmental need:
• - Resolves drug distribution related issues.
• - Resolves Pyxis related issues.
• - Expedite antibiotic administration by all appropriate mechanisms.
• - Facilitate proper information transfer with regard to medication use for patients converted to Inpatient registry from ED.
• - Promote the use of the formulary by converting non-formulary orders to formulary when possible, but coordinates procurement of non-formulary drugs when necessary.
• Promote and demonstrate rational, co