Division:Eskenazi Health
Sub-Division:
Req ID: 26107
Schedule: Full Time
Shift: Nights
Eskenazi Health serves as the public hospital division of the Health & Hospital
Corporation of Marion County. Physicians provide a comprehensive range of
primary and specialty care services at the 333-bed hospital and outpatient
facilities both on and off of the Eskenazi Health downtown campus including at a
network of Eskenazi Health Center sites located throughout Indianapolis.
JOB SUMMARY:
The Clinical Pharmacist Nocturnist serves as an essential member of the
healthcare team providing expertise in the medication use process and optimizing
medication regimens for hospitalized patients. Services provided include :
interdisciplinary patient care rounds, medication reconciliation, medication
therapy monitoring, medication orders management, patient education, drug
information, drug dosing, and various scholarly activities. The Clinical
Pharmacist Nocturnist performs both clinical and distributive tasks necessary to
ensure that patients’ medication therapy is safe, effective, timely, and
efficient. The Clinical Pharmacist Nocturnist will provide training and
education through practical and didactic experiences. The pharmacist ensures
that medication use is compliant with the department's policies, rules and
regulations promulgated by the Board of Pharmacy, and other applicable
regulatory bodies. This position will support Critical Care/Emergency Medicine
patients. Prior experience in these areas is preferred.
The Clinical Pharmacist Nocturnist is a 7 day on, 7 day off, 70 hour per
two-week pay period position.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
* Optimizes medication regimens for assigned patients by collecting necessary
information needed to evaluate medication therapy and develop
patient-specific pharmacotherapy plans, considerate of therapeutic
duplication, potential drug interactions or contraindications, therapeutic
goals, safety, efficacy, and financial stewardship
* Develops and helps implement appropriate therapeutic regimens and monitoring
plans for patients; carries out therapeutic drug monitoring, drug therapy
protocols, and required chart documentation according to departmental or
health-system standards
* Performs and/or supervises transitions of care activities including
medication history, medication reconciliation, medication education,
coordinating follow-up care, and ensuring access to medications at admission
and discharge
* Assists with formulary management and medication use processes in any of the
following capacities: critically evaluates non-formulary requests; adheres to
drug use criteria and recommends therapeutic alternatives to prescribers; or
assists with development of alternative strategies during drug shortages
* Consistently and accurately enters/verifies orders into the electronic health
record and ensures medications are accurately prepared and labeled prior to
dispensing; prepares/oversees preparation of IV admixtures, including
parenteral nutrition and chemotherapy; understands departmental workflows;
offers and implements suggestions to improve quality and efficiency;
understands and consistently utilizes all information systems
* Promotes a culture of safety by identifying, mitigating, preventing, and
reporting potential or actual medication incidents and adverse drug reactions
* Performs the following supervisory skills: supervises and directs pharmacy
technicians, students, and residents; provides feedback on performance to
area manager; analyzes and adapts to changes in volume and staffing;
organizes, deploys, and redeploys staff to maintain workflow; ensures
efficient use of downtime; works with a sense of urgency to assist customers
and encourages the same sense of urgency in others; resolves crisis
situations in a calm, constructive, and professional manner
* Engages in teaching which may include new employee onboarding, precepting,
shadowing experiences; additional opportunities may include direct
instruction, mentorship, in-services, assistance with research projects, and
Grand Rounds
* Maintains responsibility for regulatory compliance, to include the following:
performs controlled substance accountability duties in assigned work area;
ensures 100% timely completion of unit inspections; ensures constant state of
readiness for all regulatory bodies
* Consistently maintains compliance with all hospital and departmental policies
and procedures; completes all required educational activities and
competencies in a timely manner; remains up to date on departmental processes
by attending staff meetings, reviewing meeting minutes, and reading email
communications
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
* Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree required, or Bachelor of Science (BS) in
Pharmacy with equivalent experience
* Licensure in the State of Indiana or licensure eligible (if licensure
eligible, attainment of license within 90 days of hire)
* Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY1 Pharmacy Residency or a minimum of
three years full-time experience in hospital/clinical pharmacy required
* Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY2 Pharmacy Residency preferred
* Certification through the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (e.g., BCPS, BCCCP,
BCSCP) and/or specialty credential preferred
* Basic Life Support (BLS) and/or Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
certification as required by job assignment
* Participation in continuing education activities to meet licensure and
certification requirements
If you have any questions about this role, please reach out to
chalise.achille@eskenazihealth.edu
Accredited by The Joint Commission and named as one of Indiana’s best employers
by Forbes magazine for two consecutive years and the top hospital in the state
for community benefit by the Lown Institute, Eskenazi Health’s programs have
received national recognition while also offering new health care opportunities
to the local community. As the sponsoring hospital for Indianapolis Emergency
Medical Services, the city’s primary EMS provider, Eskenazi Health is also home
to the first adult Level I trauma center in Indiana, the only verified adult
burn center in Indiana and Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center, the first
community mental health center in Indiana, just to name a few.