Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacist: Patient Care & Interventions

Rhode Island Hospital; Rhode Island; On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Brown University Health Pharmacy in Rhode Island is seeking a pharmacist responsible for interpretation, evaluation, preparation, and dispensing medications in ambulatory settings under established policies and supervision. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary care teams to ensure safe, effective, and cost-conscious use of therapies and to resolve barriers to access.

Responsibilities include reviewing orders, communicating with prescribers, educating patients and families, and

Responsibilities

• Applies pharmacotherapeutic and pharmacokinetic principles to ensure safe and effective use of medications for the patient populations served.
• Ensures pharmacy services in area of practice are provided in accordance with established policies and procedures and federal and state rules and regulations.
• Receives patient medication orders or prescriptions from practitioners in the outpatient setting.
• Reviews each order or prescription to determine therapeutic appropriateness of the patient's drug regimen as it relates to the patient's clinical status, concomitant drug therapy, and diet with consideration of the aging processes and human developmental stages (neonate, child, adolescent, adult, geriatric).
• Contacts the prescriber, or covering practitioner, as necessary to initiate appropriate interventions to maximize therapeutic efficacy, minimize potential drug therapy risks, and optimize cost effectiveness.
• Provides optimal patient care by removing barriers to medication access.
• Fosters the growth of Brown University Health Pharmacy through patient recruitment.
• Provides education and instruction on use of medications to patients and their families, as required.
• Provides accurate and comprehensive information about drugs including drug interactions, potential side effects or adverse reactions, incompatibilities, and instructions for administration, to physicians, nurses, and other healthcare practitioners.
• Participates in education and training of healthcare practitioners, physicians, nurses, pharmacy interns, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy students, and other care providers on matters relevant to medication use.
• May serve as a preceptor to pharmacy residents and interns.
• Participates in continuous quality assessment and improvement activities and total quality management initiatives, including, but not limited to the adverse drug reaction, pharmacist clinical intervention, and medication incident reporting programs.
• Maintains professional competence through participation in Pharmacy staff development and skills enhancement programs, ongoing independent study, education-related professional activities, and affiliations.
• Performs immunizations or medication administrations in accordance with Rhode Island Board of Pharmacy Rules and Regulations, dependent on specific position and responsibilities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Reviews, approves, and enters medication orders in the computerized pharmacy information system including appropriate product formulation, dosage, frequency, and duration of therapy.
• Ensures relevant patient specific parameters are included on the patient's medication profile (i.e., diagnosis, known allergies, weight, age, etc.).
• Reviews and approves all medication orders and patient specific parameter computer entries if delegated to technician staff.
• Dispenses ordered medications in the appropriate quantity to ensure patient receives the correct medication, in the right dosage and dose form, at the proper time.
• Reviews and approves formulations for medications requiring compounding or manipulation prior to dispensing.
• Checks the final product prior to dispensing medication, if preparation is delegated to technician staff, in accordance with established procedures.
• Maintains appropriate documentation and retains records regarding drug purchasing, storage, preparation, and distribution in accordance with established policies and procedures and existing federal and state rules and regulations.
• Adheres to the policies and procedures of the Specialty Drug Patient Management Program (SDPMP)

Job description

Brown University Health Pharmacy in Rhode Island is seeking a pharmacist responsible for interpretation, evaluation, preparation, and dispensing medications in ambulatory settings under established policies and supervision. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary care teams to ensure safe, effective, and cost-conscious use of therapies and to resolve barriers to access.

Responsibilities include reviewing orders, communicating with prescribers, educating patients and families, and