Pharmacist(Clinical Spec)

Pharmacist(Clinical Spec)

Major duties include but not limited to:

• Provide appropriate selection of drug therapy based upon the pharmaceutical principles of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics; monitoring for efficacy, side effects and clinical outcome; and advises prescribers as appropriate.
• Recognize physical signs and clinical symptoms relevant to the patient's drug therapy.
• 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. Monitoring will include prospective review and intervention in:
• Therapeutic appropriateness of a patient's drug regimen
• Therapeutic duplication in the patient's drug regimen
• Appropriateness of the route and method of administration
• Degree of patient compliance with the prescribing regimen
• Drug-drug, drug-food, drug-laboratory, or drug disease interactions
• Clinical and pharmacokinetic laboratory data to evaluate the efficacy of drug therapy and to anticipate side effects, toxicity, or adverse effects
• Oversee pharmacotherapy to ensure that national treatment guidelines are being followed in addition to adherence to national formulary and local policies.
• Interfaces with providers, including physicians, PAs, ARNPs in the design and continued evaluation of the Veteran's treatment regimen to achieve optimization of rational and cost-effective drug therapy.
• Serves as an authoritative information source on medications and their utilization in therapy.
• Evaluates drug literature by analysis of experimental design and methodology, in order to compare and contrast therapeutic regimens and roles for new drugs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Variable Shifts including days, evening and nights as needed

Telework: Not Authorized

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Title/Functional Statement #: Pharmacist(Clinical Spec)/PD02623A

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

US Department of Veterans Affairs