Description
Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.
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Summary:
- Position Summary:
- Responsible for accurately collecting and entering patient medication histories into the hospital’s information system for utilization by health care professional during the hospital encounter.
- Qualified individuals must have the ability with or without reasonable accommodation to perform the following duties:
- Collects a list of the patient’s current home medications in anticipation of hospital admission.
- Responsible for gathering information from various resources physician offices, community pharmacy, historical encounter, extended care facility, another acute care facility to ensure a complete and accurate entry into the hospital’s computer system.
- Effectively communicates with other health care professionals to maintain appropriate patient flow and identify patient specific needs language barriers, educational, financial, etc .
- Accurately enters the home medication list into the hospital’s information system for utilization by the Provider responsible for admitting the patient.
- Completes the computer entry of the home medication list in a timely manner so it can be used as the foundation for the patient’s admission medication orders.
- Directs any unresolved issues to the Pharmacist.
- Administration of defined medications vaccinations.
- Competency and accountability in the use of medication safety technology pyxis and barcode scanning for patient and medication identification .
- Performs screening assessments for drug and alcohol, suicide, Hep C, pneumococcal and influenza.
- Places orders medication, lab and support services as a result of the screening tool.
- The following duties are considered secondary to the primary duties listed above:
- Serve as a primary training resource for new employee training.
- Data analysis with data entry into hospital defined database.
- Provide educational opportunities to the health system.
- Other duties as assigned.
Responsibilities:
- Minimum Required Qualifications:
- High school diploma or successful completion of General Educational Development GED exam is required.
- LPN or RN licensure; or Pharmacist with vaccine licensure such as an immunization certification through an accredited organization American Pharmacists Association APhA .
- Must obtain 80% or higher on department administered exam on key elements of the medication history process administered post employment.
- General computer skills.
- Considerable knowledge of medication names both trade and generic , their uses, doses, and routes of administration.
- Must be able to identify medications based on markings.
- Excellent patient interview skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with patient and other health care professionals.
- Two 2 years of previous hospital health care.
- Attention Concentration:
- The position requires the ability to attend to more than one aspect of a situation simultaneously. It is highly likely that multiple task demands are going to be required of the individual at the same time.
- New Learning and Memory:
- The position requires that an individual be able to learn new tasks quickly and effectively. change frequently. The ability to understand and carry out detailed, involved instructions is mandatory.
- Problem Solving, Reasoning and Creative Thinking:
- The position deals with issues or problems that often require thoughtful reasoning before arriving at approaches or solutions. Some independent thought, planning or origination of options and solutions is necessary. The individual must have the ability to apply principles of reasoning and problem solving to resolve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- The following are essential requirements of the position in relation to job-worker situations. These items describe how a worker must adapt, adjust, conform or act:
- Leadership, control and planning: Ability to accept responsibility for leadership, direction, control, planning, negotiating, organizing, directing, supervising, formulating practices, or making final decisions.
- Repetitive work: Ability to continuously perform the same type of work for extended periods of time, according to set procedures, sequence or pace.
- Performing under stressful conditions: Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or in situations in which working speed and sustained attention are critical aspects of the job. Is subject to danger or risk, or to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.
- Variety and change: Ability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure involving significant differences in technologies, techniques, procedures, environmental factors, physical demands, or work situations.
- Communication: Ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts and technical information.
- Interpersonal relations: Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive of others.
Credentials:
- Licensed Practical Nurse (Required)
- Registered Nurse - PA (Required)
- Immunization Approval (Required)
Education or Equivalent Experience:
- H.S. Diploma/GED (Required)
- Vocational/Trade Diploma (Required)
We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.
Live Your Life's Work
We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.