Clinical Pharmacist - Pediatric Critical Care

Nationwide Children's Hospital; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH seeks a pharmacist to deliver evidence-based pharmacotherapy across pediatric and select adult populations. You will integrate direct patient care, teaching, and collaboration to optimize outcomes.

Responsibilities include documenting care, coordinating transitions, and leading safety and quality initiatives. Licensure in Ohio is required; board certification or eligibility should be obtained within 24 months of hire.

Qualifications

• Pharmacotherapy expertise to optimize drug therapy in pediatrics and related populations.
• Documentation in medical records and timely communication with care teams.
• Precepting pharmacy residents and students per ASHP guidelines.
• Ohio licensure or eligibility to practice as a pharmacist.
• Board certification or plan to obtain within 24 months of hire.

Responsibilities

• Recommend and evaluate individualized drug therapy for best outcomes.
• Document clinical and operational outcomes in the medical record.
• Coordinate teaching and transitions of care for patients from birth to young adulthood.
• Provide handoffs and collaborate to ensure continuity of care.
• Participate in quality improvement and medication safety initiatives.
• Provide in-service training and supervise learners with ASHP precepting requirements.
• Contribute to department committees and ongoing professional scholarship.

Skills

Pharmacotherapy expertise

Evidence-based practice

Clinical decision-making

Medication safety

Precepting and teaching

Education

Doctor of Pharmacy

Bachelor's degree (eligible)

PGY1 pharmacy residency

PGY2 residency or fellowship

3 years hospital pharmacist experience

5 years hospital pharmacist experience (pediatrics preferred)

BPS Board Certification or eligible

Ohio licensure or eligibility

Job description

Overview:

Schedule:

• Primarily weekdays with some evenings
• Weekend rotation approximately every 6th week

Job Description Summary:

Serves as an integral member of the multidisciplinary healthcare team, accountable for delivering comprehensive, evidence-based, and patient-centered pharmacotherapy services across assigned practice areas. Integrates direct patient care, medication safety, clinical decision-making, transitions of care, and interprofessional collaboration to optimize outcomes for patients from birth through 21 years of age and select adult populations. Advances care through teaching and precepting, quality improvement, and professional scholarship.

Job Description:

Essential Functions:

• Serves as a member of the patient care team as the pharmacotherapy expert to prospectively recommend and evaluate individualized drug therapy, makes recommendations to achieve best outcomes in an evidence-based and patient-specific manner while considering pharmacoeconomic principles, and prospectively identifies potential adverse drug reactions, drug-drug, disease and drug-food interactions, and incompatibilities affecting patient outcomes.
• Documents direct patient care, clinical, operational, and financial outcomes and activities appropriately in the medical record; operationalizes recommendations through order verification to ensure timely and accurate medication delivery in a form appropriate for the patient.
• Focuses on accurate maintenance of the medication list, ensures accurate and timely communication to the multidisciplinary team, other pharmacists, and patient/family regarding medication-related needs; and participates in the development and coordination of patient-specific teaching and transitions of care services.
• Provides appropriate handoffs for pharmacists and other healthcare providers to follow up on anticipated pharmacotherapy needs, including medication changes. Collaborates with other members of the pharmacy team to assure continuity of care and consistency of practice.
• Participates in hospital and/or department committees as related to medication safety and /or quality improvement initiatives while demonstrating pharmacy practice leadership.
• Provides in-service training to medical, nursing, and pharmacy staff. Precepts and/or supervises pharmacy residents, students, interns, technicians, or graduates awaiting licensure. Provides appropriate oversight and input in performance evaluations. Must meet ASHP requirements for precepting on an ongoing basis.

Education Requirement:

• Doctor of Pharmacy, required.
• Candidates who have been licensed and practicing as a pharmacist since before 2004 may qualify with a Bachelor's Degree.

Licensure Requirement:

Licensure, or licensure-eligibility, to practice pharmacy in the state of Ohio, required.

Certifications:

BPS Board Certification or eligible for testing, with certification to be obtained within 24 months of hire, required.

Experience:

• PGY1 pharmacy residency and PGY2 pharmacy residency or fellowship, required.
• OR PGY1 residency with 3 years of hospital pharmacist practice experience (pediatrics preferred) with responsibility for direct clinical patient care similar to that provided through a PGY2 residency, required.
• OR 5 years of hospital pharmacist practice experience (pediatrics preferred) with responsibility for direct clinical patient care similar to that provided through a PGY2 residency, required.

Physical Requirements:

OCCASIONALLY: Bend/twist, Biohazard waste, Blood and/or Bodily Fluids, Climb stairs/ladder, Lifting / Carrying: 0-10 lbs, Lifting / Carrying: 11-20 lbs, Lifting / Carrying: 21-40 lbs, Pushing / Pulling: 0-25 lbs, Pushing / Pulling: 26-40 lbs, Reaching above shoulder, Squat/kneel, Walking

FREQUENTLY: Communicable Diseases and/or Pathogens, Flexing/extending of neck, Hand use: grasping, gripping, turning, Repetitive hand/arm use, Sitting, Standing

CONTINUOUSLY: Audible speech, Chemicals/Medications, Color vision, Computer skills, Decision Making, Depth perception, Hearing acuity, Interpreting Data, Peripheral vision, Problem solving, Seeing - Far/near

"The above list of duties is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this classification. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties performed by the individuals so classified, nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under their supervision. EOE M/F/Disability/Vet"