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Clinical Pharmacist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
This position is an in patient focused, intermittent (PRN) position that serves at the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado VISN 4.2. The clinical pharmacist will be responsible for veterans receiving care on an inpatient unit, interventional platform, dialysis, imaging, emergency department, residential rehabilitation programs, community living center, and outpatient clinics.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties and Responsibilities: Customer Service: Demonstrates appropriate and proactive interpersonal skills to achieve the goals of the service.
- →Acts as a team member and is supportive of the group's efforts at all times.
- →Demonstrates an ability to work under a variety of circumstances to maximize group productivity and quality.
- →Clinical: The clinical pharmacist provides appropriate recommendations for the selection of drug therapy based upon the pharmaceutical principles of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics; monitoring for efficacy, side effects, toxicity, adverse effects, and clinical outcomes; and advises prescribers as appropriate.
- →Provides consultation for patient-specific therapeutic drug monitoring.
- →Communicates relevant findings and/or recommendations, both orally and in writing, to other pharmacists and health care providers in charge of the patient.
- →Participates in patient care rounds, reviews charts, evaluates pertinent laboratory data, drug-drug and drug-nutrient interactions, monitors for adverse drug effects, and screens for allergies.
- →Performs medication reconciliation at all transitions of care, including updating the medication profile to reflect an accurate, active list of VA and non-VA medications.
- →Assesses drug safety and efficacy, including evaluation of physical symptoms.
- →Reports adverse drug events (ADE), near misses, and medication errors in alignment with VA ADERS reporting program.
- →Participates in medical emergencies including code teams (if BLS or ACLS certified) and emergency preparedness activities.
- →Facilitates pharmacy service policies and procedures to manage recalls and medication shortage situations, including substituting alternate dosage strengths and instructions of the same medication to equal the prescribed dose and schedule.
- →Dispensing: Reviews all medication orders for appropriateness, drug selection, dosage, route of administration and the amount, prior to dispensing.
- →Ensures all medication orders are entered into the electronic patient medical record.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical evaluation/examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 3f989758-c061-4e99-897d-805a1b180c45
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