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Posted: 26-Oct-23

Location: Monroe, North Carolina

Type: Full Time

Salary: competitive

Categories:

Clinical Pharmacist

Pharmacy

Job Setting:

Hospital/Institutional

Specialty Practice Areas:

Emergency Medicine

Preferred Education:

PharmD

Oversees the provision of safe and effective medication therapies through collaboration with the patient’s care team. Reviews physician orders for drug therapy and monitors this therapy for drug choice, dosage, drug interactions, adverse drug reactions, and formulary adherence. Serves as a drug information resource to nurses, physicians, and other healthcare workers.

Essential Functions

• Retrieves and evaluates relevant biomedical literature, formulates an appropriate response, and provides concise and timely response to drug information requests.
• Uses effective patient education techniques to provide counseling to patients and caregivers, including information on medication therapy, adverse effects, compliance, appropriate use, handling, and medication administration.
• Provides accurate shift to shift communication regarding unresolved situations requiring future action.
• Collects information needed to design medication therapy regimens and determine the presence of medication related problems with current therapies.
• Designs, recommends, monitors, and evaluates patient specific pharmacotherapeutic regimens. Implements recommendations effectively and utilizes the existing clinical intervention policies and procedures and documents in the medical record using the appropriate format.
• Participates in the management of medical emergencies.
• Precepts pharmacy students and pharmacy residents.
• Prepares and dispenses medications in accordance with best practice, policies and state and federal regulations. Manages medication therapies using clinical guidelines.
• Checks the accuracy of the work of pharmacy support team members or others in accordance with the organization’s policies and procedures. 

Responsibilities include:

• Responding to and participating in
• Traumas
• Medical resuscitations
• Codes
• Culture call backs
• Toxicology support
• Drug information questions
• Bedside support for procedural sedation
• Assist with transitions of care
• Patient and nursing education
• Medication preparation
• Adjusting discharge medications as needed

Physical Requirements
Works primarily in the pharmacy. Delivers medications to nursing units. Requires considerable walking, standing, pushing mobile cart of 50 pounds maximum and lifting 25 pounds of material. May be required to frequently stretch, bend, squat, or kneel to perform job. Utilizes appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) to minimize exposure to hazardous agents. Takes necessary precautions to avoid inadvertent needle sticks, minor cuts or bruises. Exposed to various conditions throughout the workday such as walking on hard surfaces, climbing stairs and changes in temperature and humidity. Must be able to perform manipulative skills such as writing, typing, and data entry into the computer and automated dispensing machines. Must have use of both hands, be able to see clearly and read small type such as that on unit-dose medication packages and syringes. Must be able to speak and be understood by others to communicate effectively. Must be able to hear normal sounds with moderate background noises. Involves rotating shifts.

Education, Experience and Certifications

Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy or a Pharm D. from an accredited school of pharmacy required. Licensed in the state of North Carolina or eligible for reciprocity required. Previous hospital pharmacy experience is preferred. Highly effective verbal communication and interpersonal skills with patients, visitors, and other healthcare team members to establish working relationships that foster optimal quality of patient care required. Prefer completed Emergency Medicine specialty pharmacy residency.

About Atrium Health - Carolinas Medical Center

Atrium Health includes more than 7,600 licensed beds, employs nearly 60,000 people and accounts for almost 12 million patient interactions each year. Atrium Health’s Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) is the flagship hospital of Atrium Health, which is distinguished throughout the Southeastern United States for its excellent patient care and medical expertise. Also situated on the main campus at CMC are Levine Cancer Institute's academic and research headquarters, Carolinas Rehabilitation, and Levine Children's Hospital. CMC serves as the region’s only Level 1 Trauma center and is an approved transplant center for heart, kidney, pancreas and liver. We also serve as one of North Carolina’s five Academic Medical Center Teaching Hospitals, providing medical residency training for more than 200 physicians in 15 specialties and serve as a satellite for the medical school at University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill. CMC is affiliated with five colleges of pharmacy (University of North Carolina, Wingate University, University of South Carolina, Medical University of South Carolina, and Highpoint University) and offers PGY1 Pharmacy Practice, PGY2 Infectious Diseases and PGY2 Oncology... pharmacy residency programs. Levine Cancer Institute (LCI) is the largest regional cancer and blood and marrow transplant center. With more than 25 cancer care locations, and over 200 cancer physicians, we provide access to top-ranked physician expertise, groundbreaking clinical trials and the latest cancer treatments across the Carolinas to more than 11,000 patients each year. LCI has a FACT-accredited adult blood and marrow transplant unit, staffed by nationally recognized physicians. LCI’s phase 1 clinical trials units provides access to the newest, most innovative therapies and cancer treatment options available. Specialized services include: •Medical, radiation, and surgical oncology services •Infusion therapies •Screening services •Wellness and prevention programs •Hospice and palliative care •Survivorship programs •Research initiatives •Tumor registries •Embedded specialty pharmacy services

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