POSITION SUMMARY:
To be fully engaged in providing Quality/No Harm, Customer Experience, and Stewardship by providing comprehensive pharmaceutical care through integrated drug distribution, clinical pharmacy services and teaching under the direction of pharmacy residency preceptors. This position is part of a 12-month long, structured, post-graduate education and training program. The resident provides services consistent with other services provided by pharmacists at Health First. The pharmacy resident also provides comprehensive pharmaceutical care, clinical services and education.
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PRIMARY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Quality/No Harm:
Act ethically in the conduct of all pharmacy practice activities
Maintains confidentiality in accordance with hospital policy and HIPPA rules and regulations
Display initiative in preventing, identifying, and resolving pharmacy-related patient care problems
Prepare and dispense medications using appropriate techniques and following Health First policies and procedures
Assure appropriateness of a medication order, including age-related factors, before preparing or dispensing medications
Determine and resolve any medication therapy problems including drugs without indications, medical conditions for which no therapy is prescribed, therapy inappropriate for medical condition, incomplete immunization record, inappropriate dose, dosage form, duration, schedule, route of administration, method of administration, therapeutic duplication, medication allergies, and clinically significant drug-drug, drug-disease, drug-nutrient, or drug laboratory test interactions.
Participate in multidisciplinary patient care rounds
Appropriately document clinical interventions
Prevents and monitors for medication errors
Detects, monitors, documents and reports adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and medication errors.
Meets all the program requirements of a resident as outlined in the program handbook
Customer Experience:
Provide medication use education to patients and caregivers
Counsels patients on admission or discharge medications as necessary
Provide concise, applicable, and timely responses to requests for drug information from health care providers and patients
Ensures pharmacy services are provided appropriately and in a timely manner
Participates in the education and orientation of pharmacy, nursing, medical and other staff members
Precepts pharmacy students consistent with academic credentials and clinical experience
Provides presentations, publications, and other informative activities on drug-related topics to the health care community and general public
Stewardship:
Participates in performance improvement activities and initiatives
Provides cost-effective drug therapy alternatives to health care providers when appropriate
Promotes the use of formulary medications by converting non-formulary orders to formulary when possible, but coordinates procurement of non-formulary medications if necessary
Identify and implement drug therapy where positive pharmacoeconomic impact could be achieved
Develop and complete cost containment initiatives (e.g. MUEs) and report results to the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
Participate in formulary management and review of medication use processes through involvement in the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
Promote the use of the formulary by converting non-formulary orders to formulary when possible, but coordinates procurement of non-formulary drugs when necessary
Monitor the use of expensive medications to assure there is use consistent with approved criteria
QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
Graduate of an accredited college of pharmacy in the United States
Licensed or eligible for licensure as a pharmacist in the state of Florida Licensure must be obtained with 90 days of starting the residency program
Applications are accepted until January 10th each year through PhORCAS (Pharmacy Online Residency Centralized Application System)
Health First Holmes Regional Medical Center participates in the ASHP Resident Matching Program for the selection of residents into the program Applications may be accepted in late March for any positions not filled during the matching process
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
Minimum of 40 hours per week however, additional hours may be required Work hours may be long and irregular
Prolonged periods of sitting, standing or walking
Lifting/carrying moderate loads (up to 40 pounds)
Repetitive use of hands and fingers
Potential exposure to noise of varying intensities
MENTAL DEMANDS:
Ability to appropriately cope with stress
Ability to express and exchange ideas by means of language
Ability to read, record, or type data quickly and accurately
Ability to collect and analyze data and verbal information to reach logical conclusions
Ability to determine the time, place, and sequence of operations or actions required
Job
Medical Management
Organization
HF Administrative Plan Inc
Primary Location
United States-Florida – Brevard County-Rockledge
Schedule
Full-time
Job Level
Associate