The Pharmacist Clinical PRN is responsible for working with other clinicians to ensure quality multi-disciplinary patient care including drug therapy management. This job performs drug utilization reviews, monitors for drug interactions, participates in antibiotic stewardship program, provides pharmacokinetic dosing and monitoring services to the medical staff and evaluates potential adverse drug events. The Pharmacist Clinical PRN is also responsible for medical, education, nursing, pharmacy and other clinical staff as well as patients of JPS Health Network.
Essential Job Functions & Accountabilities: Provides clinical leadership for pharmaceutical care in areas of responsibility. Acts as a preceptor for pharmacy students and residents, will participate in didactic and experiential education. Represents the department in interdepartmental/district meetings.
Presents education to pharmacy, nursing, medical staff and other clinicians as necessary. Advises physicians on the inherent dangers of drugs and their eventual side effects as well as helping them in the prescription of correct doses. Promotes improvement in drug usage/dosage and in the supervision of therapeutic procedures for best results.
Prevents, detects, and resolves medication-related problems and makes appropriate evidence-based, patient-centered medication therapy recommendations as part of the interdisciplinary team. Determines and resolves 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-dug, drug-disease, drug-nutrient, or drug-laboratory test interactions.
Verifies patient medication orders for appropriateness and accuracy. Participates with clinical team and the Pharmacy department to evaluate and measures the impact of new approaches that have been implemented.
is not an all-inclusive list of duties and may be subject to change with or without notice. Staff are expected to perform other duties as assigned. Must be able to complete all job duties and functions of the role with or without assistive/adaptive devices, and/or reasonable accommodations.
Work environments may differ based on job functions and location. Work is subject to schedule changes and/or variable work hours.