Home Infusion Pharmacist- Lancaster

Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System; Lancaster (Lancaster County); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Penn Medicine is a leading academic medical center dedicated to patient care, research, and education. The pharmacist contributor will manage clinical and production pharmacy services for assigned patients, review orders, and rotate shifts including weekends/holidays as needed by Penn Home IT.

Responsibilities include clinical decisions on patient-specific therapy, safety assurance, and documentation in medical records. Requires active pharmacist license and infusion therapy experience.

Qualifications

• Pharmacist license required (PA).
• 1+ years infusion therapy experience in hospital or home settings.

Responsibilities

• Provides clinical decisions regarding patient-specific pharmaceutical care.
• Assesses medications, reviews profiles, checks for interactions and duplications.
• Ensures safety of patients and pharmacy staff; participates in quality improvement.
• Evaluates physician orders for dosage, drug choice, and administration.
• Monitors patient response and lab values; documents in medical records.

Skills

Clinical decision making

Education

Bachelor of Pharmacy

PharmD degree

Job description

Description

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?

Summary

• Manages the clinical and production pharmacy services provided to assigned patients. Checking of filled orders, supplies, pharmacy technicians and other pharmacist's work. Sterile compounding as needed or assigned. Hours of work: Generally Monday through Friday, 8:00A.M. to 6:00P.M. Incumbent will be required to rotate shifts, weekends, and holidays as required by the operating needs of Penn Home IT, and to rotate on-call.

Responsibilities

• Provides clinical decisions regarding the patient-specific pharmaceutical care including: assessment of the patient(s) general pharmaceutical needs, review of patients’ medication profile, evaluation for duplicate therapies, evaluation for drug interactions (drug-drug, drug-nutrient, drug-disease), and development of patient database and documentation in medical record.
• Ensures safety of patient and pharmacy personnel. Provides in-service programs to all personnel on any aspect of drug therapy and related infusion devices.
• Participates in Penn Home IT Continuous Quality Improvement program.
• Accepts physician prescription orders and evaluates the appropriateness of these orders for dosage, drug choice, potential drug interactions, route of administration, stability, compatibility, and mode of administration (i.e. infusion device).
• Monitors patient(s) response to treatment by subjective and objective assessment. Monitors laboratory tests when necessary and obtains and discusses the results with nurses and physicians of the patient. Provides recommendations to improve/adjust therapy based on lab evaluations.
• Effectively communicates and documents actions with physicians, nurses, and patients in the hard patient chart and software database. Ensures that the patient database is complete for relevant information related to medical status and therapy.
• Continual update and maintenance of required documentation by State and Federal government as well as JCAHO (i.e. prescription logs, patient medication profiles, patient charts, narcotic receipts, state pharmacy, and narcotic permit)

Credentials

• Pharmacist (Required)
• Pennsylvania State Pharmacist License required.

Education or Equivalent Experience

• Bachelor of Pharmacy
• OR PharmD degree from ACPE-accredited school of pharmacy or equivalent Equivalent Experience:
• 1+ years Experience with infusion therapies in hospital and/or home settings, and experience in patient care and medication counseling, preparation of parenteral products, drug therapy monitoring, clinical laboratory evaluation, drug and medical supply procurement and quality assurance
• Education Specialization: Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy Equivalent Experience:
• And 2+ years experience with infusion therapies in hospital and/or home settings
• And experience in patient care and medication counseling, preparation of parenteral products, drug therapy monitoring, clinical laboratory evaluation, drug and medical supply procurement and quality assurance.

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

Live Your Life's Work

We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.