Advanced Clinical Pharmacist: Leader in Pharmacy Care

The Womans Hospital of Texas; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Woman's Hospital of Texas is seeking an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to lead medication therapy within a multidisciplinary rounding team, ensuring safe, evidence-based, and cost-effective care for patients. You will supervise, mentor staff, participate in committees, and drive initiatives that improve medication safety and outcomes across the hospital.

The role includes directing service lines such as ID or critical care, delivering regular education to pharmacy and interdisciplinary teams,

Responsibilities

• Leads committees responsible for establishing and implementing medication-related policies and procedures (e.g. Pharmacy & Therapeutics, Medication Safety, Antimicrobial Management Program)
• Is primarily responsible for the direction of one or more service lines with respect to pharmacy service lines (e.g. cardiovascular, pediatrics, critical care, etc.)
• Demonstrates leadership within the pharmacy department through a documented record of improvements in and contributions to pharmacy practice
• Maintains ongoing commitment to advancing the profession in the area of pharmacy practice in which they serve
• Provides regular, formal education to pharmacy and interdisciplinary teams in their field of expertise
• Models, mentors, and encourages pharmacy students, residents, and colleagues in a manner that fosters highly professional pharmaceutical care and high personal standards of integrity
• Performs all responsibilities of the clinical pharmacist as outlined below
• Verifies Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) orders for accuracy and appropriateness and intervenes when orders are unclear or potentially unsafe or inappropriate
• Interprets medication orders (verbal and written), transcribes to computerized patient medication profiles accurately, follows facility practices and procedures for documentation in the patient's medical record and trouble shoots/clarifies Centralized Order Entry (COE) orders as appropriate
• Prepares and dispenses medications, including sterile, chemotherapy, and parenteral nutrition preparations safely and accurately using appropriate techniques, USP 797 & 800 guidelines
• Evaluates Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) for appropriateness based on facility policies and guidelines or ASPEN guidelines or recommendations as appropriate
• Issues controlled substances to patient care areas and maintains records as required by law and follows corporate policies and procedures related to the dispensing and monitoring of controlled substances
• Ensures safe, appropriate, evidence-based, and cost-effective medication therapies for patients according to established policies, procedures, and protocols
• Monitors medication therapy regimens for contraindications, drug-drug interactions, drug-food interactions, drug- laboratory test interactions, allergies, appropriateness of drug and dose, indications and therapeutic duplications
• Based on knowledge and expertise, develops, assists, implements, and executes all drug therapy management protocols including, but not limited to; pharmacokinetics, anticoagulation dosing, IV to PO, pain management, antimicrobial stewardship, and pharmacy-directed dosing
• Reviews/interprets culture and susceptibility data for antibiotic appropriateness and recommends changes, as needed for drug-bug mismatch, de-escalation and duration of therapy
• Reads, extracts, and interprets information in patient charts accurately Detects and reports suspected adverse drug reactions and medication errors accurately and in a timely manner, shares good catches and clinical outcomes to pharmacy leadership to elevate pharmacist interventions and services and reviews medication related events that have occurred to prevent recurrences
• Sustains the formulary by instituting drug therapy modifications for formulary compliance, SKU reduction and management of shortages as applicable
• Evaluates and responds to patient-specific drug information questions from clinicians
• Provides drug information to patients and their families and performs applicable medication reconciliation
• Ensures CPW rules/alerts are reviewed and completed in a timely manner, utilizes Vigilanz/

Job description

The Woman's Hospital of Texas is seeking an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to lead medication therapy within a multidisciplinary rounding team, ensuring safe, evidence-based, and cost-effective care for patients. You will supervise, mentor staff, participate in committees, and drive initiatives that improve medication safety and outcomes across the hospital.

The role includes directing service lines such as ID or critical care, delivering regular education to pharmacy and interdisciplinary teams,