Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Neurology/Surgery

Minimum Education
Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) Doctor of Pharmacy (Required)

Minimum Work Experience
2 years At least a year of pharmacy experience in a pediatric, specialized or academic or clinical setting.
6 years required for candidates without a PGY2 residency. (Required)

Required Licenses and Certifications
Pharmacist Eligible for Licensure in the District of Columbia plus/minus Maryland and Virginia (specialty dependent) 90 Days (Required) Board Certified Pharmacist (BPS) (specialty dependent) 1 Year (Required)

Functional Accountabilities
Order Processing and Accreditation Readiness

• Interpret medication orders, profile orders and oversee the packaging, labeling and distribution of medications.

• Input orders into pharmacy computer system for area of practice when appropriate.

• Staff in the pharmacy operation to maintain distribution skillset.

• Assist in performing unit inspections and verifying accreditation readiness.

• Reviews medication lists for therapeutic duplication, omissions, dosing errors, drug interactions, and allergies.

• Reviews, interprets, and verifies new medication orders to ensure appropriate drug, dose, route, and frequency

• Assists nursing staff and other providers with automated dispensing machine questions.

Interventions/ Documentation

• Perform drug therapy monitoring and intervene as necessary on drug dosing, drug administration, drug interactions, side-effects and monitoring issues.

• Complete therapeutic drug monitoring consults and adverse reaction reports.

• Document interventions and drug information.

• Document in patient chart when applicable and appropriate.

• Collaborates with multidisciplinary team to ensure appropriate medication access, including recommending alternative therapies as appropriate.

• Actively participates in the medication reconciliation process to ensure a complete and accurate home medication list.

• Works collaboratively with providers to implement and communicate comprehensive medication evaluation and management for patients including between care settings.

Staff Development and Training

• Assist with the education, training, and general supervision of pharmacy students and residents.

• Assist with the training of new pharmacists.

• Provide lectures and drug reviews to various professional groups and committees.

• Develop system changes, educational programs and interventions that result in the reduction of errors in practice; including prescribing errors, dispensing errors, and administration errors.

Clinical Services

• Take necessary steps to assure appropriate medication use throughout the organization.

• Identify drugs/therapies that should be considered for further evaluation and formulary addition.

• Provide accurate and timely drug information to physicians, nurses, and other health professionals.

• Maintain an active, current clinical practice based on evidence-based medicine.

• Serve as a clinical specialist resource for pharmacists, nurses and physicians; address and follow up on all issues related to systems and patient care.

• Assist the department in the management of drug shortages.

• Represent the Department on key committees.

• Assist pharmacy operations and informatics teams in implementation of new and updating of existing formulary items.

• Become credentialed and help to design, implement, and execute collaborative practice agreements.

Quality Improvement

• Lead cost-savings initiatives within the department.

• Lead and participate in quality improvement initiatives both within the department and externally.

• Contribute to the development of order sets by helping devise, implement, and test electronic order set builds.

• Assist with the growth of clinical pharmacy programs throughout the organization.

• Actively participates in the development and implementation of performance/quality improvement and patient safety activities for service area, Pharmacy Services and the Enterprise (e.g. responds to RLs, participated in RCAs/ACAs).

• Identifies high-cost, high-use agents within defined area of practice and participates in cost management initiatives (revenue generating, cost containment, etc.).

Professional Development

• Participate and/or lead research initiatives with medical unit and/or resident projects.

• Attend, present, and/or moderate at subject area conferences.

• Actively engage in preceptor development by attendings seminars, teaching in the Children's preceptor development series, and/or completing preceptor development CEs.

• Contribute to the primary literature by publication and/or poster presentations.

Organizational Accountabilities
Organizational Accountabilities (Staff)
Organizational Commitment/Identification

• Anticipate and responds to customer needs; follows up until needs are met

Teamwork/Communication

• Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior

• Partner with all team members to achieve goals

• Receptive to others' ideas and opinions

Performance Improvement/Problem-solving

• Contribute to a positive work environment

• Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change

• Identify opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes

• Make appropriate decisions, using sound judgment

Cost Management/Financial Responsibility

• Use resources efficiently

• Search for less costly ways of doing things

Safety

• Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance

• Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation

• Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation

• Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication

• Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers

• Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance