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Clinical Pharmacist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 41 days ago
About the Role
The VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System (VASNHCS) is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Clinical Pharmacist to provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care in the outpatient settings. This position plays a vital role in ensuring safe, effective, and evidence-based medication use for our Veteran population across Northern Nevada and Northeastern California.
What You'll Do
- →Provides patient-specific therapeutic drug monitoring and communicates relevant findings and/or recommendations to other health care providers in charge of the patient both orally and in writing.
- →Performs continuous evaluation of prescribed medications to assure optimal drug therapy.
- →Provides and documents in the medical record medication counseling to patients.
- →Completes medication histories including patient interviews.
- →Serves as a drug information resource by providing up-to-date drug information to prescribers, other health care professionals, patients and caregivers.
- →Participates in patient care rounds, review 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.
- →Performs discharge medication reconciliation prior to patient's discharge and summarizes the significant findings, both documented in the medical record and appropriately reports to the responsible physician.
- →Shares responsibility in providing education to patients regarding anticoagulation therapies and help facilitate patient enrollment into the outpatient anticoagulation clinics and communicate appropriate follow-up as necessary with the patient.
- →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.
- →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.
- →Fills all orders in a timely fashion; review of the patient's allergy history, drug-drug, drug-nutrient, drug-laboratory and drug-disease state interactions and assessment for clinical relevance should be performed and dealt with appropriately.
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 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
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