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Pharmacist - Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 57 days ago
About the Role
The Clinical Pharmacy Specialist (Long Term Care) serves as a mid-level provider with prescribing privileges as outlined in the individual's Scope of Practice. The Community Living Center Clinical Pharmacy Specialist functions at the highest level of clinical pharmacy practice to provide comprehensive medication management in the community living center practice setting.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include, but are not limited to: Utilizes a patient-centered approach to improve patient health outcomes through optimizing medication use in collaboration with the patient and other healthcare providers.
- →Collaborates prospectively with providers to develop, implement, and maintain systems that promote desirable clinical outcomes of acute and chronic disease states through use of safe, evidence-based, and cost-effective drug therapies.
- →Provides prospective consultation to physicians, nurses, and other health care providers on appropriate drug therapy.
- →Actively participates in multidisciplinary team rounds.
- →Assess and prioritizes the patients active medical conditions, taking into account clinical and patient goals of therapy.
- →Assesses the indication, effectiveness, safety, and adherence of each mediation the patient is taking.
- →Makes appropriate adjustments to medication therapy.
- →Utilizes motivational interview skills with patient, family, caregiver and other healthcare professionals to collect patient-specific data, conduct medication history, and identify additional data needed for medication review assessment and medication reconciliation.
- →Documents pharmaceutical care plan and interventions performed in electronic health record and/or facility specific programs.
- →Orders, reviews, and analyzes appropriate laboratory tests and other diagnostic studies necessary to monitor and support the patient's drug therapy.
- →Follows-up with patients on lab or test results to monitor, evaluate, and adjust medication therapy.
- →Monitors serum levels for patients receiving drugs with narrow therapeutic indices and evaluates and adjusts medication therapy using pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles.
- →Ensures appropriate care coordination during transitions of care within the healthcare system (changes in levels of care, shift changes, etc.) as well as throughout the discharge process, as indicated.
- →Ensures appropriate selection of medications, dosages, and administration, and provides recommendation on routes and dosages for alternatives medications if warranted.
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: 02cce571-e6a5-4934-a5d2-6ba990b77bdf
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