Clinical Pharmacist - Outpatient

Outpatient Clinical Pharmacist

The Outpatient Clinical Pharmacist primary functions include the interpretation and professional evaluation of provider prescriptions, dispensing of appropriate medications, supervision of pharmacy technicians, students, and volunteers, plus the counseling of patients on proper medication use, medication storage, and adverse effects. Major duties include but are not limited to the following:

Clinical: Pharmacists engage in a systematic and comprehensive process to accomplish three primary functions: (1) identify patient's actual and potential drug-related problems, (2) resolve the patient's actual drug-related problems, and (3) prevent the patient's potential drug-related problems. Activities for this position include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Applies basic knowledge of pharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and pharmacotherapeutics to monitor and assess patient's therapies, progress, labs, and drug-related problems
2. Consults with other health care professionals to ensure appropriate drug therapy such as when clarifying questionable or incomplete outpatient prescriptions.
3. Provides written and/or verbal drug information to health care professionals.
4. Counsels patients.

Distributive:

1. Medication orders and dispenses medications, including controlled substances, investigational drugs, chemotherapeutic, intravenous additives, and new biotechnology drugs based on the knowledge of current pharmacy practice and standards.
2. Supervises, coordinates, and checks all work performed by pharmacy technicians, students, and volunteers, and provides back-up for technical staff when necessary.
3. Utilizes a broad base of computer knowledge for prescription entry, checking laboratory results, and finding other patient-related data in VISTA and CPRS computer systems.
4. Ensures professional standards, regulations, laws and applicable guidelines are met when dispensing medications.
5. Operates and maintains, when assigned, the automated dispensing 4 packaging and labeling equipment utilized in each pharmacy.
6. Provides verbal medication education to patients at the time of dispensing. This may include demonstration of techniques for patients using oral inhalers

Educational:

1. Participates and supports precepting and orientation of pharmacy residents, students, and other trainees as part of pharmacy educational programs.
2. Contributes information for written publication in newsletters and bulletins.
3. Participates in VA Pharmacy staff development presentations or in-services.

Administrative:

1. Assists in gathering data and preparing studies of cost, efficiency, quality improvement, workload, and drug evaluations, as requested by supervisory pharmacists.
2. Performs as pharmacist-in-charge when no supervisory pharmacist is present.
3. Keeps supervisor apprised of changes in workload, manpower requirements, resource availability, patient requirements, and developments impacting these areas.
4. Other duties as assigned by supervisor

Work Schedule: Mon-Fri, 8:00am to 4:30pm

Telework: Not eligible for Telework

Virtual: This is not a virtual position

Functional Statement #: 04483-F

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