Clinical Pharmacist Stewardship - Regional Medication Quality

Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville seeks a Clinical Pharmacist to lead stewardship initiatives, optimizing drug therapy and ensuring safety. You will collaborate with regional hospital teams to standardize processes, improve outcomes, and uphold high standards of medication use.

Responsibilities include developing KPIs, staying current with best practices, and ensuring regulatory compliance. This role emphasizes patient-centered care, team mentorship, and ongoing program

Qualifications

• Tennessee Pharmacist license required.
• ASHP-accredited PGY1 residency preferred.
• Hospital pharmacy experience required.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain stewardship infrastructure, including education/competencies for pharmacy staff.
• Serve as a liaison between Vanderbilt Health's main campus and regional hospital key stakeholders from pharmacy and quality departments.
• Maintain expertise for relevant literature and best practices in antimicrobial, anticoagulant, and opioid stewardship and related glycemic oversight.
• Review/maintain medication formularies and EMR builds related to anticoagulants, antimicrobials, opioids, and glycemic agents.
• Facilitate system process improvements and standardization for stewardship activities.
• Ensure the consistency of quality and standards of practice related to stewardship activities.
• Review anticoagulant, antimicrobial, opioid, and glycemic agent related medication events in the safety reporting system.
• Establish and maintain policies/SOPs/protocols related to stewardship activities.
• Develop/review KPIs for stewardship areas and present to stakeholders.
• Assist with regulatory compliance with programs and regulatory bodies.

Skills

Mentoring & Coaching

Medication Management

Pharmaceutical Drug Preparation

Education

Tennessee Pharmacist license

ASHP-accredited PGY1 residency

Hospital pharmacy experience

Job description

Discover Vanderbilt Health :

With eight hospitals and over 180 clinics, we are the region's largest comprehensive academic health system. Vanderbilt Health has a long tradition of providing world-class care to the people of the Mid-South, living out our mission of moving medicine forward through preeminent programs in patient care, education and research. Here you'll find a spirit of collaboration and a supportive community where your expertise is valued, your knowledge expanded and your uniqueness celebrated. We are committed to fostering an environment where talented, compassionate people are united in bringing the most advanced care to our neighbors throughout the region.

Organization:

Pharmacy Inpt Operations

Job Summary:

Provides leadership in a specialized healthcare team and the patient to assure optimal cost-effective drug therapy. This includes developing specific pharmacotherapeutic goals, recommending a regimen and developing a monitoring plan to meet the individualized drug therapy needs of the patient. The Clinical Pharmacist is responsible for leading efforts in the prevention and reporting of medication errors and adverse drug reactions according to policy and works to continuously improve process and practice in the institution to enhance safety of medication therapy.

The Clinical Pharmacist will collaborate with Vanderbilt Health Regional Hospital teams to establish and maintain standard processes supporting anticoagulation stewardship, antimicrobial stewardship, opioid stewardship, and diabetes and glycemic agent oversight.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and maintain stewardship infrastructure, including education/competencies for pharmacy staff.


• Serve as a liaison between Vanderbilt Health's main campus and regional hospital key stakeholders from pharmacy and quality departments.


• Maintains expertise for relevant literature and best practices in various practice areas in all aspects of the medication use process impacting antimicrobials, anticoagulants, and opioids.


• Review/maintain medication formularies at Vanderbilt Health Regional Hospitals, including electronic medical record builds related to anticoagulants, antimicrobials, opioids, and/or glycemic agents (including order sets).


• Facilitate system process improvements and standardization for stewardship activities.


• Ensure the consistency of quality and standards of practice related to stewardship activities.


• Review anticoagulant, antimicrobial, opioid, and/or glycemic agent related medication events documented in the safety reporting system.


• Establish and maintain clinical policies and procedures, standard operating procedures (SOP), standing orders, and/or protocols related to stewardship activities.


• Develop/review key performance indicators (KPIs) for anticoagulation, antimicrobial, opioid stewardship, and glycemic agents, and present to relevant stakeholders.


• Assist with regulatory compliance with program, operational, and regulatory bodies (TJC, NHSN, ASHP, state and federal regulations, Leapfrog, etc.).

Qualifications

• State of Tennessee Pharmacist license is required.


• Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY1 residency training program is preferred.


• Hospital pharmacy experience is required.

Technical Capabilities

• Mentoring & Coaching (Intermediate): Demonstrates good training and mentoring practices on a regular basis. Acts as a mentor to a person in need of support and direction. Makes a concerted effort to seek problem definition so it is clearly understood, clarifying and refining goals, as needed. Knows how to make personal gains apparent, supporting pride in accomplishment. Cites specific examples of conduct and responds to lack of progress in constructive ways. Encourages two-way dialogue, soliciting opinions of people being trained and mentored. Explores alternative solutions and approaches which make a person or team more likely to accomplish their goals.


• Medication Management (Advanced): Demonstrates the uppermost levels of expertise in medication management in challenging and complex situations. Often takes a lead role in highly pressurized situations when there is a need to achieve results. Has the ability to determine the clinical appropriateness of each medication taken by the patient, determine theappropriateness of the dose, dosage form, indication, contraindications, potential adverse effects and potential problems with concomitant medications. Able to monitor for therapeutic duplication or other unnecessary medications, interpret, monitor and assessing patient's laboratory results as they relate to medication therapy and provide drug information to other healthcare professionals, patients and their families.


• Pharmaceutical Drug Preparation & Dispensing (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully review, prepare and dispense prescribed medications. This includes being proficient in the general principles of aseptic technique utilized to compound sterile preparations (CSPs) to minimize