Clinical Faculty (Open Rank)/ Clinical Pharmacist, Addiction Consult Team

Position Summary The Clinical Faculty (Open-Rank) / Clinical Pharmacist serves on the interdisciplinary Addiction Consult Team and/or as a primary health care provider responsible for assuring and promoting the safe, rational, efficacious, and cost-effective use of drug therapy with the ultimate goal of achieving positive clinical outcomes and improving a patient''s quality of life. The individual serves as an educator of pharmacy students, pharmacy residents, international scholars, and other members of the healthcare team through providing lectures and in services, and precepting experiential education rotations. The individual facilitates the advancement of knowledge in health care by participating in research and scholarly activities.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Patient Care: Attend and actively participate in service and/or attending rounds or other service related functions.
• Perform those duties necessary to accurately and completely monitor therapeutic regimens.
• Perform those duties necessary to facilitate therapeutic decisions including the location, retrieval, interpretation, summarization, and dissemination of current literature concerning a patient''s drug therapy.
• Conduct and document medication histories on selected/appropriate patients.
• Intervene whenever necessary to improve the quality of patient care, provide drug information and ensure rational, safe, and cost effective drug therapy.
• Assure continuity of pharmaceutical care by providing pharmacists, physicians, nurses and other health care professionals with necessary information related to a patient''s therapeutic regimens.
• Participate in departmental cost containment programs by aggressively identifying and intervening on high cost/target drugs.
• Provide patients and their families/caretakers with information related to the proper use of discharge medications in order to assure safe and effective use of, and compliance with, prescribed medications.
• Evaluate all non-formulary drug requests originating in the assigned patient care area; document approval or suggestion of formulary alternatives as appropriate.
• Provides pharmacokinetic dosing assessment and recommendations for appropriate drugs or in appropriate patients, and documents in patient's electronic record.
• Document in the patient''s permanent medical record or other appropriate place, patient care activities including but not limited to: pharmacokinetic consultations, medication teaching notes, medication histories, pharmacotherapeutic interventions, adverse drug reactions and other significant recommendations or activities.
• Assure that drug delivery and administration conforms to departmental policy and procedure and ensures maximal patient safety.
• Assist in providing accurate, efficient and appropriate drug distribution services when needed.
• Facilitate communication and cooperation between all individuals involved in the drug use process in order to assure the accurate and timely provision of drug products.
• Respond and participate in CPR, RRT, and stroke emergencies by carrying the Adult CPR, Peds CPR and RRT pager as assigned.
• Review, evaluate and help revise Hospital and Departmental policy and procedures as appropriate; and assure that such policy and procedures are being met.
• Actively participate in Departmental quality assurance programs, including: reporting of adverse drug reactions and medication errors.
• Work with leadership on MUEs and development of drug use guidelines and protocols.
• Demonstrate priority-setting in his/her approach to patient care demands in order to assure optimum efficiency and cost effective use of resources.
• Work with Clinical Teams as assigned to initiate global patient care changes and arrange adequate clinical coverage.
• Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.