Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

Introduction

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below:Advanced Clinical PharmacistHCA Florida Gulf Coast Hospital

Benefits

HCA Florida Gulf Coast Hospital offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
• Colleague recognition program
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

We are seeking an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply!

Job Summary and Qualifications

Ensures availability and proper handling of formulary medications; oversees accurate dispensing and compounding (when necessary) of daily medicines; responsible for the safe, accurate and rational distribution of pharmaceutical agents to patients of all ages, employees and designated areas of the hospital, as well as the supervision of technical personnel in accordance with all state and federal laws, JCAHO standards, and hospital/departmental policies and procedures. Maintains Pharmacy Module and serves as a liaison between Pharmacy and other departments for eMAR.

• Supports and assists in meeting departmental goals
• Performs assigned department based monitoring duties in a timely manner.
• Directs activities of work area effectively. Established priorities. Initiates changes in assignments based on workload and resources available.
• Gives a thorough, concise report at change of shift, within allotted time. Communicates incomplete assignments, and potential patient concerns to monitor in order to ensure continuity of medication therapy.
• Serves as a role model to others:
• Consistently on time and ready to work at start of shift
• Displays good work habits
• Does not leave work area unattended
• Maintains neat and clean working environment
• Demonstrates knowledge and personal mastery of required job functions, internal communications and operating systems; i.e. Clinical Pharmacology, UP-TO DATE, Meditech, ADM's.
• Accountable for maintaining and improving own job knowledge, skills and competence.
• Completes annual education requirements and competencies/skills assessments as needed. TB test as scheduled.
• Education profile is completed and updated on an on-going basis on the individual attendance program form.
• Attends all staff meetings on scheduled work days and if scheduled off, reads and signs-off the minutes of those meetings.
• Attends all mandatory in-services as scheduled.
• Participates in department or hospital committees, task forces, and/or provide departmental education.
• Assists with the orientation of new employee(s) and/or orients current employee(s) to improve in a specific area.
• Demonstrates knowledge and use of department QI by identifying problems and offering solutions.
• Identifies QI activities by articulating department and hospital wide quality improvement successes.
• Reviews all orders to assure appropriateness and intervenes and makes recommendations as needed. Assures departmental procedures are followed when non-formulary drugs, target drugs, restricted drugs, and investigational drugs are ordered.
• Assures that medications are properly prepared and dispensed to the unit in a timely manner. Checks all doses prepared by technicians
• Demonstrates necessary skills and knowledge to prepare medications. Pharmacist does not have an unrealistic amount of medication errors when compared to peers.
• Assures that all I.V. orders are processed and prepared in a timely and accurate manner.
• Uses proper technique when working in I.V. hoods according to procedure.
• Reviews medication administration records to identify problems with administration or compliance with prescribed therapy.
• Investigates inconsistencies in drug therapy including recognition and documentation of possible adverse drug reactions.
• Participates and documents information as requested for Medication Use Evaluations or Drug Studies.
• Issues controlled substances to patient care areas and maintains records as required by law.
• Answers the telephone, identifying self and department.
• Performs essential duties of the pharmacy director in his/her absence.
• Maintains safe, appropriate, cost effective medication therapies for patients according to established policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Reviews and interprets all physician orders received, using the patient profile. Screens all medication for clinical appropriateness and intervenes when appropriate:
• Monitors drug therapy regiments for contraindications, drug-drug interactions, drug-food interactions, allergies, and appropriateness of drug and dose.
• Renal dosing on specified drugs-checks initial dose.
• Duplicate orders discontinued.
• Changes IV orders to PO when appropriate.
• Monitors for incompatibilities, concentration and rate.
• Pharmacokinetic monitoring for appropriateness.
• Anticoagulation monitoring for dosing and lab appropriateness
• Evaluates subjective and objective responses to drug therapy to determine effectiveness. Checks drug levels when appropriate.
• Documents clinical interventions.
• Reviews/interprets culture and susceptibility data for antibiotic appropriateness and recommends changes as needed.
• Sustains the formulary by minimizing non-formulary procurements, utilizing therapeutic substitution protocols, and prompting rational drug therapy selections
• Provides clinical consultation and clarification to practitioners including accurate and timely drug information. Suggests appropriate, cost effective therapeutic alternatives to medical staff.
• Participates in department or hospital committees, task forces, and/or provides departmental education
• Assists with orientation of new employees and /or orients current employees to improve in a specific area
• Assists with the development and implementation of an effective medication quality plan. May include determining usage patterns for drugs and setting drug use criteria.
• Investigates inconsistencies in drug therapy including recognition and documentation of possible adverse drug reactions.
• Participates and documents information as requested for Medication Use Evaluations or Drug Studies.
• Orients, trains, and mentors pharmacists to carry out their job responsibilities as it relates to clinical pharmacy.
• Coordinates and serves as an information source for medical and hospital staff regarding the effects and use of medication.
• Promotes and recommends appropriate, cost-effective alternatives to drug therapy. Performs cost benefit, cost effectiveness analysis on alternative drug therapies and drug delivery systems making specific recommendations through hospital committees.
• Promotes the utility of clinical pharmacy services toward patient outcomes and cost savings through the management of the clinical program.
• Designs, implements, monitor and evaluate drug cost management programs in collaboration with the medical staff, administration, and pharmacists.
• Acts as a pharmacy preceptor.
• Performs other duties as deemed necessary by the Director in accordance with established policies and accrediting agencies.
• Interfaces with physicians and nurses to develop quality, cost effective therapeutics through clinical pathways.
• Works with Education Specialist to design and develop base education/training materials in pharmacy to support staff training and continue education
• Actively supports and promotes system standardization, utilization and best practices
• Participates with peers in the other Divisions identifying and evaluating best practices, packaging and promoting best practice efforts
• Promotes system security and patient confidentiality and helps ensure compliance
• Participates in special projects as needed and performs other duties as assigned.
• Provides monitoring and intervention in therapeutics to provide cost effective care with optimum outcomes
• Reviews all orders to assure appropriateness and intervenes and makes recommendations as needed.
• Screens all medication for clinical appropriateness and intervenes when appropriate; allergies-appropriately documented in computer
• Exhibits expertise in dosing geriatric, pediatric or renally comprised patients, as well as the common population.
• Makes timely and appropriate recommendations of antibiotics based on C&S information, recommendations to adjust dose if renal function comprised, and recommendations to switch IV medications to oral when criteria are met.

What qualifications you will need:

• Pharmacist
• Doctorate Degree, or Masters Degree
• Minimum of 5 years of hospital clinical pharmacy experience or completion of hospital PGY1 (Pharmacy General Practice Residency), PGY2 (Pharmacy Specialty Residency) or fellowship.
• BCPS (Board Certified Pharmaceutical Specialty) certification or Fellow (FCCP or FASHP)

HCA Florida Gulf Coast Hospital is a 238-bed acute care hospital. For 40 years, we have served Bay County and the surrounding communities. We are an accredited facility offering comprehensive care. This includes advanced cardiac assessment and treatment. We offer certified women's services. Our hospital has dedicated spaces for adult and pediatric emergency services. We are certified in Advanced Primary Stroke Care. Our hospital is accredited as a Comprehensive Breast Care Center. We are the area's only Accredited Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI and Resuscitation. Other services that we offer include orthopedic care and joint replacement, robotic surgery, cardiac, vascular, and interventional services. We are home to the only Pediatric ER in the community. We have the only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in the region. Together, we continue to raise the bar in healthcare.


HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder


If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Advanced Clinical Pharmacist opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today!

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