Clinical Pharmacist - Pediatric Critical Care

Nationwide Children's Hospital; North Carolina; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Nationwide Children's Hospital is seeking a Pharmacist to provide comprehensive pharmacotherapy services for patients from birth through 21 years, with select adult populations. The role includes direct patient care, safety, transitions of care, and interprofessional collaboration within a multidisciplinary team.

It emphasizes teaching, precepting, quality improvement, and scholarly activity, with opportunities to lead initiatives and participate in committees focused on medication safety.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) required.
• Licensure to practice pharmacy in the state of Ohio required.
• BPS Board Certification or eligible; certification within 24 months of hire.
• PGY1 residency and PGY2 residency or fellowship required; or 3 years hospital pharmacy experience with direct patient care; or 5 years hospital pharmacy experience with direct care.

Responsibilities

• Recommend and evaluate individualized drug therapy with evidence-based, patient-specific care.
• Document direct patient care and outcomes in the medical record; ensure timely medication delivery.
• Maintain accurate medication lists and communicate with the multidisciplinary team and families; coordinate patient teaching and transitions of care.
• Provide handoffs for continuity of care; collaborate with pharmacy staff to ensure consistent practice.
• Participate in hospital/department committees on medication safety and quality improvement; demonstrate leadership in pharmacy practice.
• Precept and supervise pharmacy residents, students, interns, or technicians; meet ASHP precepting requirements.

Education

Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)

Bachelor's degree (license eligibility prior to 2004)

Job description

Overview:

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”