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All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:

• Benefits from Day One for FT/PT positions
• Paid Days Off from Day One for FT/PT positions
• Student Loan Repayment Program for FT/PT positions
• Career Development
• Whole Person Wellbeing Resources
• Mental Health Resources and Support
• Debt-free Education (Certifications and Degrees without out-of-pocket tuition expense)

Our promise to you:

Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. It’s about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit. AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose-minded team. All while understanding that together we are even better.

Schedule: Full-time

Shift:   12p-8:30 pm primarily but will rotate to other shifts as needed, weekends, and holidays

Location: AdventHealth Bolingbrook

The role you’ll contribute:

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist to develop and establish pharmacy services in the Emergency Department.  The candidate will work closely with the pharmacy management, ER physician and nursing staff, and ER medical residency program to provide comprehensive clinical pharmacy services for the ED and all associated areas (Pediatrics, Trauma, Urgent Care, etc.) including pharmacokinetic and therapeutic consultation.

The value you’ll bring to the team:

CLINICAL ACTIVITIES:

• Assumes responsibility for the delivery of pharmaceutical care to patients in the Emergency Department. Coordinates the use of human, material, and informational resources such that timely, efficient, cost effective and appropriate care is consistently rendered.
   
• Demonstrates proficiency in order processing. Reviews physicians' medication orders and clarifies or corrects orders with the physician. Reviews patient medication profiles to guard against drug sensitivities, contraindications, duplications, and major drug interactions.
• Reviews all medication orders for prescribing, formulary, and therapeutic issues. Suggests appropriate formulary alternative(s) based on the patient's clinical parameters.
• Consults and advises members of the emergency department staff on matters relating to specific drug therapy problems and monitors and acts on patient laboratory results. Provides in-depth drug information and other informational materials to members of the medical, nursing and other healthcare professionals. Provides patient discharge medication consultations based on department standards. Calculates drug dosages based on pharmacokinetic parameters.
• Works collaboratively with other clinicians and health-care providers to implement and maintain innovative disease management programs and clinical pharmacy services.
• Participates in the development of medication use management programs within the system including clinical guidelines, critical pathways, disease management and drug use programs.
• Keeps informed of the action, adverse effects and proper usage of all new drugs as they are made commercially available as well as of all investigational drugs being studied by the institution.
• Facilitates proper information transfer with regard to medication use for patients converted to inpatient status from the ED.
• Focuses cost avoidance and cost savings due to medication use in the Emergency Department.

ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES:

• Demonstrates ability in operational area with respect to time management, supervision of staff, problem identification and resolution, and decision-making.
• Coordinates and supervises work-place activities and resources; promotes professional competence; assures that services rendered and work performed is in accordance with departmental standards. Advises, assists, and supervises the work of pharmacy technicians; assumes final responsibility for accuracy of their work.
• Works with medical and/or nursing personnel to resolve problems involving pharmacy services.

• Assists with the review and revision of departmental policies and procedures, as requested. Applies departmental policies and procedures to complex situations and identifies areas for which policies and procedures need to be developed, improved or revised

The expertise and experiences you’ll need to succeed:

• Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy or Doctorate of Pharmacy required
• Pharmacist credentialed from the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.
• PGY1 clinical pharmacy residency completion and significant direct patient care experience in the areas of critical care/ER/toxicology preferred
• Completion PGY2 Emergency Medicine residency/fellowship training preferred. 
• Board certification and ACLS/PALS certification preferred
• ICU/ER experience preferred

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About AdventHealth

At AdventHealth, Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ is our mission. It calls us to be His hands and feet in helping people feel whole. Our story is one of hope — one that strives to heal and restore the body, mind and spirit. Our more than 80,000 skilled and compassionate caregivers in hospitals, physician practices, outpatient clinics, urgent care centers, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies and hospice centers are committed to providing individualized, wholistic care.

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