Inpatient Hospital Pharmacist -Weekday

Clinical Pharmacist

With five decades of experience, Shepherd Center provides world-class clinical care, research, and family support for people experiencing the most complex conditions, including spinal cord and brain injuries, multi-trauma, traumatic amputations, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and pain. An elite center ranked by U.S. News as one of the nation's top hospitals for rehabilitation, Shepherd Center is also recognized as both Spinal Cord Injury and Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems. Shepherd is the only rehabilitation facility in the nation with an intensive care unit on-site, allowing us to care for the most complex patients and begin the rehabilitation process sooner. Shepherd Center treats thousands of patients annually with unmatched expertise and unwavering compassion to help them begin again.

Shepherd Center's culture is one of hope, humor, and hard work. You will enjoy career growth, strong relationships with co-workers, strong support from leadership, and fun activities that have kept over 12% of staff members working at Shepherd for more than 20 years.

Position will be 6:30a to 3p Monday thru Friday, with participation in the remote rotation (1 week every 6-8 weeks) and weekend and holiday rotation. Validation of drug orders, reviewing and approval of IV admixtures, reviewing and validating all Pyxis refill activity, narcotic distribution. Epic experience a plus as well as hospital experience preferred. The Clinical Pharmacist is responsible for the overall review, maintenance, revision, and implementation of the Siemens Pharmacy System and Soarian Clinicals CPOE (medications), as well as assisting in the pharmacy as needed. The Clinical Pharmacist collaborates with all hospital staff in order to meet patient's needs. This role helps to improve the health of patients and ensure a high quality of care.

Job Responsibilities

• Analyze and validate physician orders, review drug-drug interactions and adverse drug events, making suggestions for alternatives as needed.
• Reviews reports on key labs and markers to check for adverse reactions and consults providers with findings and suggestions to improve therapy effectiveness.
• Actively participates on hospital committees to share input from pharmacy role in patient care.
• Ensures clinical effectiveness and safety of all therapies by processing all orders as needed.
• Acts as a resource for all medication related information as required by other clinical staff.
• Assists in developing and implementing updates to the Pharmacy systems.
• Assists in the review, and testing of new orders, protocols, and procedures before activation to ensure accuracy and reliability of the order process.
• Practices proper safety techniques in accordance with Center and departmental policies and procedures. Responsible for the reporting of employee/patient/visitor injuries or accidents, or other safety issues to the supervisor and in the occurrence notification system.
• Monitors and ensures compliance with all regulatory requirements, organizational standards, and policies and procedures related to area of responsibility. Identifies potential risk areas within area of responsibility and supports problem resolution process.

Preceptor Responsibilities

• Act as a preceptor for pharmacy residents per ASHP guidelines ensuring the training, development of skills, presentation of research and papers, exposing residents to actual scenarios to develop critical thinking and knowledge so the resident can practice as a clinical pharmacist upon graduation from the residency program.
• Attends meetings and outside training as needed to support residents in presentations, poster sessions, and discussions.
• Performs evaluations of residents noting strengths, skill development, and areas for improvement. Documents same in PHORCAS to support the residency program.
• Keeps current in training and self-development to maintain preceptor status and meet ASHP requirements.

Required Minimum Education

• Graduate of an accredited school of pharmacy, PharmD preferred.

Required Minimum Certification

• Current Georgia Pharmacy License
• Board Certification or completed PGY1 Residency

Required Minimum Experience

• Five to Ten years of hospital experience.

Required Minimum Skills

• Proficient with the use of a computer and software systems
• Ability to communicate with all staff members, make presentations before a group.

Preferred Qualifications

• N/A

Physical Demands

• Involves standing for periods of time or exerting up to 15 pounds of force occasionally or a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body.

Working Conditions

• Some potential for exposure to blood and body fluids.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by the personnel so classified.