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Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Acute Care
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 39 days ago
About the Role
The clinical pharmacist specialist works within the inpatient practice setting to promote the optimal use of medications in view of patient disease state(s) and clinical response.
What You'll Do
- →Major duties include, but are not limited to: Provide pharmaceutical care.
- →Ensure the safe and appropriate use of medications and medical items.
- →Promote the optimal use of medications (including prevention of improper or uncontrolled use of medications).
- →Educate healthcare professionals, the patients and the public in pharmacotherapy.
- →Filling and/or compounding prescriptions.
- →Bulk compounding.
- →Prepare I.V. admixtures.
- →Ward inspections.
- →Participate in medication management to include designing, implementing, assessing, monitoring and documenting therapeutic plans utilizing the most effective, least toxic and most economical medication treatments.
- →Additionally, ordering laboratory and other tests to help determine efficacy and toxicity of medication therapy; and therapeutic substitution as per protocol or provider consultation and medication reconciliation.
- →Medication reconciliation process: Interviews and evaluates patients upon admission to the hospital, daily during hospitalization and upon discharge for appropriateness of pharmacologic therapy; designs a pharmaceutical care plan as appropriate and documents the pharmaceutical care plan in the patient's electronic medical record.
- →Process and/or ensure the processing of all discharge medications for the assigned patient care area.
- →Providing appropriate recommendations to providers regarding anti-thrombolytic therapy for inpatients and coordinating transfer of patients to the Outpatient Anticoagulation Clinic.
- →Support the Allergy/ Adverse Drug Reaction Program.
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
Job ID: 3eba0a1c-02fc-4708-be65-1da814b68af2
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