Pharmacist - Emergency

Emergency Pharmacist

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About the Facility Brooke Army Medical Center

The Brooke Army Medical Center is the United States Army's premier medical institution. This 425-bed Academic Medical Center is the Department of Defense's largest facility and only Level 1 Trauma Center. The BAMC Laboratory is the premier military lab and one of the largest in the U.S. The lab has received recognition during the major pandemics and wars. Facility Address: 3551 Roger Brooke Dr., San Antonio, TX 78219

Responsibilities

• The pharmacist is responsible for educating, assisting, and interacting with patients in an outpatient clinic setting with regard to health promotion and wellness.
• Works collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams to optimize drug therapy.
• Provide direct patient care, including treatment assessment and medication management activities.
• Clinically evaluate all patients in a specified area daily.
• Ensure documentation is placed in the medical record regarding pharmacy recommendations, plans, intervention, and medication reconciliation in medical records.
• Review patient's drug regimen for an appropriate indication, dosing, allergy verification, potential drug interactions, lab monitoring, duplication of therapy, and medical documentation.
• Provide accurate and timely drug information to physicians, nurses and other health professionals.
• Respond to level 1 trauma, code blue massive blood transfusion emergencies.
• Provide direct patient care and medication therapy monitoring, including antibiotic stewardship, pharmacokinetic drug dosing, renal and hepatic dosing and patient education.
• Develop, implement, and monitor clinical protocols.
• Provide consultative services and clinical expertise to evaluate and improve medication usage and therapeutic outcomes.
• Process orders and prescriptions to provide medication and pharmaceutical supplies ordered by physicians and authorized medical practitioners.
• Facilitate discharge planning and smooth transition to alternate sites for care from a pharmacy perspective.
• Provide cost-effective management of drug utilization within the clinic.
• Monitor polypharmacy and high-dose pharmaceutical dosing to prevent adverse effects.
• Provide drug information to patients and their families.
• Demonstrate professional communication with patients, family members, professional and support personnel involved in the delivery of patient care.

Qualifications

• Completion of ASHP-accredited PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency AND completion of ASHP-accredited PGY2 in Emergency Medicine Pharmacy or Critical Care Pharmacy, -OR-
• Completion of ASHP-accredited PHY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency AND three years of practical clinical practice experience in Emergency Medicine with BPS board certification.
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification.
• Meets standards of an ASHP-Qualified Residency Preceptor within one year of employment.
• Bachelor's degree in pharmacy.
• Minimum of one year of pharmacy experience within the last three years.

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