Clinical Pharmacist jobs in Grand Rapids, MI

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.

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 Solid Organ Transplant position will include areas of responsibility for all phases of caring for organ solid transplant patients (liver and kidney).

Patient Care Responsibilities * Daily rounding with the interdisciplinary transplant team serving as drug information resource and optimizing therapy while decisions are made

o 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 service.

o Assist with implementing treatment plans and ensuring communication/education to pharmacy staff as well as nursing to minimize errors and/or confusion

o Transitions of care activities including: * Admission medication reconciliation * Discharge medication review * Design discharge anticoagulation regimens and facilitate scheduling with Beaumont affiliated outpatient anticoagulation clinics to ensure safe transition

o Promote and facilitate meds-to-beds program as much as possible

o Educate patients on new medications

o Pharmacokinetic dosing consults (anticoagulants and antibiotics) for patients on service

o Drug information resource, specifically in solid organ transplant pharmacotherapy related issues to pharmacists at RYO and other Beaumont hospitals * Routinely interact with interdisciplinary care team members including Medical, Nursing, Pharmacy staff and other departments such as quality improvement etc. * Expansion into the ambulatory care for patients in clinic 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 * Quality Management

o Serve as a resource for pharmacists for complex solid organ transplant pharmacotherapy

o Manage medication shortages o Medication Use Evaluations when assigned

o Patient Safety reports (QSR)

o Perform financial analysis of initiatives implemented.

Education and Training

o Residency and Students * PGY-1 and PGY-2 Pharmacy Residency Program * Solid Organ Transplant Rotation * Resident's longitudinal diabetes education lecture * 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

o Pharmacy Grand Rounds at least twice per year

o Pharmacy Continuing Education Program and Noon Conference Preceptor

o Research Projects when assigned

o Medical School and Pharmacy School lectures when applicable Committee Involvement * Corporate/System wide * Hospital * Other committees when applicable

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