Pediatric Critical Care Clinical Pharmacist at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon

Pediatric Critical Care Clinical Pharmacist

The purpose of this position is to provide the services of a licensed pharmacist which includes the responsibility for the safe and proper distribution and use of medications in inpatients and outpatients who range in age from neonates, infants less than one year of age, children and adolescents ages 10-18, adults ages 19-65 and the elderly over age 65.

This position is to function at higher decision making and accountability levels regarding medication therapy, proactively affecting medication use by making recommendations at the time prescribing decisions are being made or, in some cases, making independent decisions about medication therapy in cooperation with other healthcare team members. Additional services provided include facilitation of medication reconciliation, discharge counseling, and medication delivery through coordination of care from admission to discharge. The pharmacist must possess strong communication skills for patient education and work collaboratively with inpatient and outpatient interdisciplinary teams including but not limited to providers, nurses, case workers, pharmacists, and technicians, as well as, the teaching and precepting component of students, interns and/or residents.

This is a flexible model where the coordination during transitions of care and medication use system for patients are integrated with traditionally centralized functions, such as order entry/verifications and will continue to evolve as part of integrated decentralized patient care practice.

Function/Duties of Position

• Identifies, resolves and documents complex therapeutic problems, demonstrating advanced knowledge and application of this knowledge to a specific patient population.
• Responds accurately to requests for drug information from physicians, nurses, patients and patient's families; independently reviews and interprets the literature and applies this information to specific patient care situations.
• Monitors therapeutic response and adverse effects of medications to guide drug therapy. Consults with provider when questions or problems are identified. Appropriately reports all adverse drug reactions, drug defects, and medication errors.
• Directs the work of students/residents and monitors and evaluates their performance. Influences standards of therapy by forming peer level relationships with attending medical staff members; is recognized as a drug authority in a specialized practice area by physicians, nurses and pharmacists.
• Assists in the development of treatment guidelines to be used in patients with specific diagnosis. Documents activities in the patient medical record, pharmacy monitoring profile, drug use evaluation data collection or adverse drug reaction reporting program.
• Interprets and evaluates physician's orders and prescriptions for accuracy, completeness and appropriateness.
• Participates in both intra and interdepartmental education programs; participates in the development of peers.

Required Qualifications

• A current Pharmacist's license issued by the Oregon State Board of Pharmacy.
• OHSU may require training or experience in a specialized area at time of recruitment.

Job Related Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (Competencies):

• Demonstrates the ability to: Enforce pharmaceutical care principles safely and accurately
• Make age-related modification of drug therapy
• Make disease-related modification of drug therapy
• Evaluate medical literature
• Work independently without minimal direct supervision
• Handle multiple tasks and frequent interruptions
• Communicate effectively both formally and informally, including presentations
• Project manage Work with a team professionally and collaboratively Set priorities to respond quickly to emergent situations/requests
• Work cooperatively with health-system and pharmacy staff
• Communicate effectively and professionally (orally and in writing)
• Perform work accurately with attention to detail
• Exercise sound professional judgement
• Perform systematic problem solving
• Enforce practice guidelines, standards, and medication related policies
• Make critical decisions Perform key computer related skills including use of the EMR, common word processing, spreadsheet, medical literature and medication databases

Preferred Qualifications

• BS in Pharmacy or Pharm.D.
• Practice Residency or Specialist Certification (BCPS, BCOPS, etc) or 5 years minimum appropriate experience
• PGY-2 Specialty Residency BLS/PALS certification Vaccination certification Teaching Certificate.
• Pediatric clinical pharmacist experience
• Inpatient hospital pharmacy practice: Ability to meet the pharmaceutical care needs of the following patient care types: Acute care, psychiatric, rehabilitation, skilled nursing, long-term care, obstetric, oncology, chemically dependent, HIV, home care, hospice.
• Experience establishing a new clinical service line Background and understanding of pregnancy impact on drug delivery for both the mother and fetus/newborn)

Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.