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Covenant HealthCare US:MI:SAGINAW DAY SHIFT FULL TIME BENEFITED Summary:

Under minimal supervision, the Clinical Pharmacist within our Gastroenterology Office works with the care team optimizing patient care by providing specialized pharmaceutical expertise and support. Working closely with the gastroenterologist and the medical team, the Clinical Pharmacist contributes to the safe, effective, and efficient management of patients' medication regimens. The pharmacist's responsibilities encompass medication therapy management, patient education, and collaborative work in patient care plans.

Responsibilities:

RESPONSIBILITIES The selected individual will: * Assists physicians in disease management within institution approved collaborative practice agreements. * Staffing requirements will include reviewing prescriptions issued by the Physician, or other authorized prescriber to assure accuracy, appropriateness of medication, and determine formulas and ingredients needed. * Educate health care professionals using multiple communication methods, such as presentations, newsletters, emails, the pharmacy intranet, one-on-one sessions, and other means * Provides education and information on pharmaceutical care and drug therapy to patients, pharmacy staff, physicians, nurses, students and other clinicians. * Provides drug therapy management and assessment including identifying and resolving potential and actual drug related problems. * Provide clinical recommendations pertaining to gaps in care, high risk medications, compliance and adherence, drug interactions, therapeutic substitution * Utilize formulary information to guide appropriate medication recommendations * Keep current with new and emerging evidence-based medicine and therapeutic recommendations * Participates in performance improvement initiatives and research as appropriate * Efficiently perform evidence-based scientific evaluation of the medical literature evaluations using information from multiple databases and other sources * Work with electronic medical record pharmacists to optimize the use of clinical decision support tools and order sets to improve medication use process and patient outcomes * Communicates and collaborates with physicians and other clinicians to develop drug therapy policies, protocols, and guidelines. * Participates in departmental, multidisciplinary, hospital and health-system committees as leader, member or consultant. * Performs other related duties as assigned such as quality assurance reports, preparation for regulatory inspections, etc.

Other information:

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS * Current and unrestricted Michigan licensures to practice as a pharmacist * PharmD Preferred * Board Certification preferred. * Prior experience in ambulatory clinic setting or other clinical pharmacy setting providing. * Prior experience presenting clinical information to providers and committees. KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES * Excellent organizational, teamwork, interpersonal, time management, consensus-building, and written and verbal communication skills * Excellent communication skills (fluency in writing, reading and speaking English) * Experience in student and resident education * Proficiency with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other software * Ability to perform a variety of manual dexterity movements (i.e., keyboard data entry) WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS * Work within various settings within the organization including but not limited to- Outpatient Pharmacy, Hospital Floors, Physician Offices. * Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards

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