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Corewell Health Clinical Pharmacist Specialist Hematology Oncology in Royal Oak, Michigan
Royal Oak - Full time, day shift
Job Summary
Provides leadership for all Pharmacy clinical activities within assigned area. Embraces the goals/objectives encompassing Pharmaceutical activities. Promotes team efforts with pharmacy and non-pharmacy personnel to manage and achieve departmental/corporate objectives. Provides support for staff development so that staff meets/exceeds minimum competency standards and encourages/supports staff to continue professional development. Demonstrates good judgment and decisiveness throughout daily activities. Maintains knowledge of current pharmaceutical practice and demonstrates a personal commitment to professional growth. Serves as role model of clinical excellence to staff pharmacists. Supports management by providing oversight, guidance and support for all assigned areas. Participates in the planning, organization, implementation and follow up of new programs and activities. A key role of the Clinical Pharmacy Specialist is to promote safe, appropriate, and cost effective medication therapy.
Essential Functions
Assists in controlling and maintaining the pharmacy drug budget by assuring appropriate medication formulary use.
Provides quality patient specific pharmaceutical care to patients and documents such interventions with respect to clinical outcomes and financial ramifications.
Develops and oversees the data collection and review of information gathered for drug utilization review and/or research, quality improvement monitors, adverse drug event reporting, restricted drug policies and other processes as established by the department and/or organizational committee.
Participates in direct patient care by providing drug information, interventions, and recommendations according to current evidence-based medication practices.
Assists in coordination, development and assessment of organizational quality improvement activities. Assists in meeting goals for core indicators relating to pharmacy practice.
Assists in decision-making process for formulary additions and deletions assuring processes are in place for safe administration, storage, distribution, preparation and use.
Participate in the development of processes to assure investigational drugs and or drug studies are safely controlled, administered and destroyed when applicable.
Participates the clinical development, training and education of students, pharmacists, residents.
Participates in the development and production of patient education programs, in-service lectures and seminars and continuing education programs for pharmacy, nurses, physicians and other healthcare practitioners related to medication therapy.
Participates in the review, detection and prevention of medication errors and adverse drug events.
Participates in organizational subcommittees or work groups.
Performs operational and clinical duties of a clinical pharmacist when necessary.
Performs other duties as assigned.
See addendums for specific specialty job requirements.
Addendum
William Beaumont University Hospital is a 1100 bed Level 1 Trauma Center and Comprehensive Stroke Center offering a wide variety of medical services to a growing suburban community. This hematology - oncology position will include areas of responsibility for all phases of caring hematology and oncology patients.
Patient Care Responsibilities
Role provides opportunities with advanced pharmacotherapy training in a diverse inpatient oncology patient population, including solid tumor, hematologic malignancies, and cellular therapies
Provide patient care services as a member of an interprofessional team for the medical oncology, hematologic malignancies, and cellular therapy services.
Daily rounding with the interdisciplinary hematology / oncology team team serving as drug information resource and optimizing therapy while decisions are made, , including on-call as needed
Review patient charts ensuring appropriateness of pharmacotherapy (dose adjustments, discontinuing unnecessary therapy, initiating needed drugs, antimicrobial stewardship, identifying opportunities for cheaper alternative agents etc.) and document and follow-up on I vents accordingly for the servic
Assist with implementing treatment plans and ensuring communication/education to pharmacy staff as well as nursing to minimize errors and/or confusion
Transitions of care activities including admission medication reconciliation and discharge medication review
Educate patients on new medication starts
Manages daily patient medication problems and emergency situations as they arise and documents activities in the electronic health record appropriately (interventions, notes, handoffs, etc)
Pharmacokinetic dosing consults (anticoagulants and antibiotics) for patients on service
Drug information resource, specifically in hematology - oncology pharmacotherapy related issues to pharmacists at RYO and other Corewell Health hospitals
Opportunity to interact with patients, nurses and physicians in the initiation, procurement, assessment, management and follow-up of patients on cancer treatment regimens.
Routinely interact with interdisciplinary care team members including Medical, Nursing, Pharmacy staff and other departments such as quality improvement etc.
Clinical pharmacy services will be provided in collaboration with pediatric pharmacists for pediatric oncology. The hematology/oncology pharmacy service will include identifying, solving, and preventing medication related problems in the hematology/oncology population
Collaborates with the pharmacy leadership team regarding chemotherapy workflow issues
Direct and manage supportive care management of patients (anti-emetics, pain control, growth factors, anti-microbial prophylaxis, prevention of tumor lysis syndrome, etc)
Develops and/or maintains an active clinical pharmacy practice on the hematology oncology service line
Formulary and Quality Management
Embraces system approach including development, multisite consensus, submission to corporate committees, implementation including policy software, IT Build, and educational roll out of protocols, guidelines, and policy development e.g., protocol
Expansion of CAR-T and BiTE therapies with additional onboarding and continuing accreditation and REMS requirements
Facilitate compliance with hematology oncology service line directives by evaluating and overseeing the appropriate use of high-cost and highly toxic therapies to assure suitable control and appropriateness of therapy
Actively participate in multidisciplinary hematology service meetings and tumor boards
Quality Management
Serve as a resource for pharmacists for complex Hematology - Oncology pharmacotherapy
Manage medication shortages
Medication Use Evaluations when assigned
Patient Safety reports (QSR) and error reporting
Perform financial analysis of initiatives implemented.
Education and Training
Teaching is also an integral component of the program as WBUH for our PGY1/PGY2 residents and students
PGY-1 and PGY-2 Pharmacy Residency Program
Hematology - Oncology Rotation
Oncology fellowship teaching lectures
IPPE and APPE student rotations
Precept student and resident longitudinal requirements (MUE, Project, CE, T/TH presentations, PRG, patient diabetes lecture
Support PGY1 Residency program through committee engagement
Provide updates in therapeutics to the hematology, oncology programs as needed via emails, presentations and one on one communication
Provide disease state and drug therapy education for UPMC Facilities’ physicians and staff. This may include written reviews, maintenance of pharmacy sharepoint information, teaching didactic lectures, conducting continuing education lectures, and facilitating small group topic discussions
Coordinate and deliver ongoing staff education for clinical staff pharmacists
Pharmacy Grand Rounds at least twice per year
Pharmacy Continuing Education Program and Noon Conference Preceptor
Research Projects when assigned
Medical School and Pharmacy School lectures when applicable
Provide education to the interdisciplinary round team members on relevant medication topics as needed (e.g. neutropenic fever).
Qualifications
Required Bachelor's Degree Pharm.D. or Bachelor degree in pharmacy.
Preferred residency training.
3 years of relevant experience 3 years of experience as a clinical pharmacist or pharmacy residency/fellowship preferred. In absence of residency training, candidates with demonstrated superior knowledge (board certification, considerable practical clinical experience, etc.) in area of focus may be considered. Preferred
LIC-Clinical Pharmacist - STATE_MI State of Michigan or eligible to obtain Upon Hire required
LIC-Pharmacist Controlled Substance - STATE_MI State of Michigan or eligible to obtain Upon Hire required
Primary Location
SITE - Royal Oak Hospital - 3601 W 13 Mile Road - Royal Oak
Department Name
Pharmacy - Royal Oak
Employment Type
Full time
Shift
Day (United States of America)
Weekly Scheduled Hours
40
Hours of Work
7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Days Worked
Monday - Friday
Weekend Frequency
N/A
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