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General Summary
At UMMC, the Clinical Pharmacist interprets and evaluates physicians’ medication orders, ensures appropriate preparation, packaging, delivery, storage, and monitoring of prescribed medications, manages pharmacy support personnel and pharmacy work areas, ensures compliance with established policies, standards, practices, and values of the department, institution and profession, educates, advises, consults and trains UMMC patients, patient families, and health care professionals and staff
Principal Responsibilities and Tasks
The following statements describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals within this classification. Specific clinical situations may dictate that additional duties be performed by personnel so classified in order to effectively meet patient needs.
Provides pharmaceutical care to individual patients. Promotes optimal drug therapy and safe use of medications by applying medication use guidelines, standards and regulations to individual patients. Specific processes include: assessment of patient-specific data to evaluate the patient’s status and medication needs; medication preparation, dispensing and distribution; medication administration; monitoring; patient/family education; the prevention, detection and resolution of drug-related problems. (May include patients seen in any patient care setting of the medical center as described in the Department of Pharmacy Scope of Services Statement.)
Manages the pharmacy. Acts in accordance with the mission, vision, values of the pharmacy department and medical center. Maintains established department policies, procedures, objectives, and quality assurance program, safety, environmental and infection control, and generally accepted pharmacy practices and, state and federal laws.
Provides timely drug information in a professional manner to the public and health care professionals through accurate interpretation of appropriate medical and pharmaceutical references. May include provision of services in a formalized drug or poison information center.
Provides educational services, including professional development and training of pharmacists, pharmacy students, pharmacy technicians, nurses, physicians, other health care professionals. Evaluates the depth and comprehensiveness of the education required for the specific situation at hand.
Maintains medication distribution and control systems. Includes appropriate management of inventory control systems. Involves development and ongoing maintenance of medication use systems designed for the storage, preparation, dispensing, distribution and administration of medications. Participates in performance improvement activities. Possesses knowledge and can apply and suggest improvements to established policies and procedures and operational processes.
Manages care, quality, and costs. Involves the systematic and continuous process of evaluating and improving the utilization of medications in a patient population in order to enhance the quality, safety, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the medication use process.
Participates in the Medication Error/Adverse Drug Event Process including Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) surveillance and reporting. The Clinical Pharmacist participates in this program by collecting appropriate event information and ensuring that reports are appropriately completed and forwarded to the UMMC Medication Safety Officer.
Participates in the ongoing system of formulary management by screening new drug orders against guidelines for use and following procedures for the handling of non-formulary requests.
Engages in performance improvement and professional development initiatives. Demonstrates a commitment to expanding knowledge base and skills in the areas of pharmaceutical sciences, practice management and/or pharmaceutical care services for the purpose of improving patient safety, ensuring effective medication use and enhancing job satisfaction.
Enhances customer relations and adheres to the values of the department and institution. Interacts with internal and external customers of the Medical Center in a respectful, courteous, and tactful manner to foster the delivery of quality patient care and employee services. Respectfully responds to the needs and concerns of patients, visitors, and fellow employees.
Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the patient populations(s) served. Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possesses the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's requirements relative to his or her population-specific and age specific needs. Provides the care needed as described in the unit/area/department policies and procedures.
Other related professional duties as required including participation in routine staff meetings.
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