Pharmacist Clinical

Pharmacist Clinical

Requirements

• Education – Bachelors in Pharmacy
• Certifications – Pharmacist – South Dakota Board of Pharmacy
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification – American Heart Association (AHA)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification – American Heart Association (AHA) – Within 60 days of hire or transfer.

Responsibilities

• Identifies medication-related problems such as: appropriateness of drug, dose, route, frequency, duration; minimizes therapeutic duplication; identifies/prevents drug-drug, drug-food, drug-lab, or drug-disease interactions.
• Monitors patient response to therapy.
• Provides accurate and adequate drug information to other multi-disciplinary team members and drug educational information to patients and their families.
• Follows and appropriately manages pharmacy protocols (e.g. heparin, warfarin, pharmacokinetic, IV to PO, therapeutic interchange, renal dosing).
• Participates in quality improvement projects.
• Under general direction/guidance from pharmacy leadership, leads development, implementation, and maintenance of pharmacy services in a specialty area (e.g. medication safety, drug shortages, formulary changes, team leader in a specific practice area).
• Acts as a resource in area of specialty.
• Consistent documentation of consults relative to peers.
• Consistent documentation of pharmacist interventions relative to peers.
• Consistent documentation of adverse drug reactions relative to peers in same practice settings.
• Consistent documentation of medication variances relative to peers.
• Any other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Education – Doctorate in Pharmacy
• Certifications – Post-graduate Year 1 (PGY-1) – American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP)
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Certification – American Heart Association (AHA)
• Work Experience – 1+ years Pharmaceutical Experience
• 3+ years Hospital Experience
• 3+ years Clinical Experience