Clinical Pharmacist - Inpatient

PeaceHealth; Longview (WA); On-site; USD 93,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center in Longview, WA is seeking a Pharmacist for a Per Diem/Relief position. The role encompasses dispensing, clinical counseling, and collaboration with healthcare teams to optimize patient outcomes across medications.

The position offers a variable FTE and a salary range of $67.74 to $101.60 per hour, dependent on education, experience, and applicable contract terms with the union or hospital policies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy from an accredited school.
• Licensed or eligible for licensure in Washington state.
• Demonstrated basic pharmacy clinical skills and customer service abilities.

Responsibilities

• Review medication orders for appropriateness and accuracy, including contraindications and formulary status.
• Interpret, clarify, and rectify physician orders and drug reconciliation processes.
• Monitor patients on target drugs and initiate pharmacokinetic dosing protocols.
• Provide patient counseling and medication-related education.
• Supervise and train pharmacy technicians and interns; may serve as preceptor.
• Participate in development of drug protocols and quality assurance audits.

Skills

Pharmacy clinical skills

Customer service skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy

Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)

Job description

PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center in Longview, WA is seeking a Pharmacist for a Per Diem/Relief, 0.00 FTE, Variable position. The salary range for this job opening at PeaceHealth is $67.74 - $101.60. The hiring rate is dependent upon several factors, including but not limited to education, training, work experience, terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreement, seniority, etc.

Job Summary

This position is responsible for performing all necessary functions to ensure optimal use of medications to achieve specific outcomes that improve a patient's quality of life. Functions included in providing compassionate pharmaceutical care are both cognitive and medication distribution related and include: dispensing and distributing drugs; advising physicians and patients regarding proper usage of prescribed drugs; collaboration with other healthcare professional to plan, monitor, review and evaluate patient effectiveness; monitoring patients for side effects and drug interactions.

What you will do:

• Reviews medication orders for appropriateness and accuracy including, but not limited to: contraindications, allergies, dose, route, frequency, duplicate therapy and formulary status.
• Interprets, clarifies, and rectifies physician medication and IV orders, including the medication reconciliation process.
• Interprets, clarifies, and rectifies prescriptions and selects medications for outpatient dispensing.
• Monitors all patients on specified target drugs and initiates pharmacokinetic dosing protocols.
• Evaluates drug therapy for appropriateness and makes drug therapy recommendations to clinician.
• Prescribes drug therapy per collaborative drug therapy management agreements/Medical Executive Committee approved protocols.
• Dispenses the final product for administration and performs patient counseling.
• Detect, monitor, and report adverse drug events and medication errors (EIR).
• Supervise and train pharmacy technicians to assure accurate order entry, preparation, and proper technique.
• Supervise and trains pharmacy interns and externs. May serve as preceptor for the intern or extern as defined by the State Board of Pharmacy.
• Participate in development of drug protocols and clinical pathways.
• Perform drug usage evaluations on selected drugs and reports results to the Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee. Completes quality assurance auditing as required for prescriptive authority.

What you bring:

Education

• Bachelor's Degree Required: Pharmacy or
• Doctor of Pharmacy Required: from an accredited school

Experience

• Required: Demonstrated basic pharmacy clinical skills and
• Required: Demonstrated customer services skills

Credentials

• Required: Pharmacist - Washington currently licensed or able to obtain license and
• Preferred: Basic Life Support and
• Preferred: Advanced Cardiac Life Support and
• Preferred: Pediatric Advanced Life Support

PeaceHealth is committed to the overall wellbeing of our caregivers.

• The benefits included in positions less than 0.5 FTE are 403b retirement plan for caregiver contributions; wellness benefits, discount program, and expanded EAP and mental health program.

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