Clinical Pharmacist

Pharmacy Technician

Major duties:

• Verifies accuracy and appropriateness of medication orders and prescriptions during order finishing.
• Consults with medical center staff when there are questions concerning therapeutic or policy matters regarding outpatient prescriptions or inpatient physician orders.
• Ensures formulary guidelines are followed in accordance with all applicable rules, regulations, and guidelines.
• Enures the accuracy of drug dispensing based on patient history and medication profile review, good clinical practice, and other pertinent factors.
• Provides drug information to physicians, nurses, and other associated health care professionals. Provides oral and written drug information to inpatient and outpatient veterans, as appropriate.
• Conducts clinical screening procedures such as the calculation of creatinine clearances for "at risk" patients.
• Provides discharge medication counseling to veterans and family discharging to home from medicine service and short-stay rehabilitation.
• Assists the Chief of Pharmacy in maintenance of the formulary. Gathers information supporting the inclusion of drugs into (or removal of drug from) the formulary at the national, Veterans Integrated Service Network, or local level.
• Participates in interdisciplinary rounds (eg: Discharge planning, falls assessments, etc.) with the interdisciplinary team and makes suggestions to improve therapy and/or ease transition to home, as appropriate.
• Assists with instruction of professional or technical level pharmacy students and assists in the training of new technicians and pharmacists.
• Participates in quality improvement activities involving drug therapy and clinical pharmacy functions.
• Provides a monitoring program for all adverse drug reactions (as required by The Joint Commission).

Work Schedule: Full time, Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm. In addition, Clinical Pharmacists will be part of regular rotation staffing Inpatient Pharmacy on Sundays (7:00am-11:00am) and holidays (7:00am-3:30pm). Typical frequency for each is 1 Sunday shift every 2 months on average and 1 holiday shift per calendar year.

Functional Statement #: 02160F

US Department of Veterans Affairs