Pharmacist - AdventHealth Shawnee Mission

Location Address: 9100 W. 74^th Street, Mission, KS 66204

Top Reasons To Work At AdventHealth Shawnee Mission

• Received Magnet® recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center in January 2019
• Providing faith-based, whole person care to Kansas City since 1962
• Excellent health benefits, an onsite child care center and fitness facility  
• Tuition reimbursement to support continuing education
• Employee Referral Program
• Largest health care provider in Johnson County with three campuses

Work Hours/Shift:

PRN

You Will Be Responsible For:

Pharmacy Operations

Actively performs all pharmacy functions and maintains active proficiency in:

· Standard work parameters

· Operational programs

· Dispensing and compounding systems

· Hospital computer systems

· Medication ordering systems

Maintains operational proficiency to provide coverage of (at least two areas):

· Central Pharmacy

· IV Room

· Oncology Pharmacy Satellite

· Operating Room Satellite

· CVICU Pharmacy Satellite

Oversees appropriate utilization of medication automation, technology, and computer systems

· Accurately interprets electronic records

· Maintains expertise in Cerner processes

· Manages proper and complete patient profile record

Accurately oversees the management of medication inventories and the preparation and dispensing of patientâspecific medication doses

· Manages medication dispensing activities

· Ensures accuracy of all medication products prepared for dispensing

· Oversees oral and injectable product compounding

· Prevents improper drug, dose, dosage form selection, expiration dating, and barcode scanning issues when checking products

Pharmacy Practice

• Completes critical medication order scrutiny, drug profile review, and patient monitoring to identify, prevent, or mitigate medication-related problems
• Improper drug, dose, or dosage form selection
• Dose frequency or timing
• Subtherapeutic dosage
• Over dosage
• Adverse drug reactions or drug allergy
• Drug interactions
• Therapeutic duplication
• Failure to receive drugs
• Untreated indications
• Medication use without an indication
• Treatment failures

• Proficiently verifies/enters medication orders and proactively communicates with medical staff to resolve problem medication orders
• Incorrect medication orders
• Ambiguous medication orders
• Non-formulary medication orders
• Home medication use requests
• Inappropriate therapy

• Provides patientâcentered care services
• Provides accurate, safe and timely medication therapy
• Initiates and facilitates appropriate therapy based on age, disease, and drug considerations
• Promotes cost-effective drug therapy and actively participates in stewardship activities and restricted medication/surveillance programs

• Initiates and facilitates appropriate drug dosing and manages medication-related pharmacist consults (as appropriate for assignments):
• Pharmacokinetic monitoring
• Renal dosing
• Nutritional support & TPN management
• Anticoagulation therapy
• Antimicrobial therapy
• Blood product therapy
• Hematopoietic growth factor therapy
• Glycemic management
• Pain management
• Patient education and counseling
• Medication histories
• Sedation/delirium management

• Facilitates medication safety practices
• Identifies, mitigates, and reports potential and actual adverse drug events, adverse drug reactions, and medication errors
• Documents pharmacist interventions and appropriately documents in the patient medical record

• Maintains continuous learning and pharmacy practice development
• Maintains personal continuing education plan including documentation of an annual self-evaluation and plan for self-development
• Completes rigorous CE modules as part of state pharmacist licensure renewal (e.g. PSAP)

• Clinical Pharmacy Services

• Provides primary coverage of direct patient care programs and multidisciplinary services
• Provides accurate, safe, timely, and appropriate medication therapy based on patient needs
• Places practice priority on the delivery of patient-centered care
• Identifies high-risk patients and implements interventions to improve quality and safety
• Makes appropriate evidence-based, patient-centered medication recommendations
• Provides effective medication education and counseling to patients and caregivers
• Proficiently maintains patient information and efficiently evaluates patients’ health care needs
• Establishes collaborative pharmacist -patient relationships
• Formulates patient problem lists and accurate medication histories
• Monitors and tracks patients’ changing health care needs and implements, evaluates, and redesigns pharmaceutical care plans based on patient progress and evolving goals

• Works as an active member of pharmacy clinical programs
• Collaborates with other pharmacy staff
• Collaborates with care providers and Pharmacists to optimize care and improve services

• Provides general coverage of decentralized pharmacy practice areas
• Provides medication order verification in decentralized areas as assigned and supports other areas as needed
• Actively participates in clinical pharmacy programs and pharmacist consult programs (as defined in Pharmacy Practice Expectations)

• Maintains proficiency to practice in decentralized areas of (at least one division):
• Cardiology Pharmacy Division
• Critical Care Pharmacy Division
• Internal Medicine Pharmacy Division
• Neuroscience Pharmacy Division
• Oncology Pharmacy Division
• Surgery Pharmacy Division

• Maintains proficiency to practice in (at least two areas, different than Division above):
• Cardiology decentralized units
• Critical Care decentralized units
• Internal Medicine decentralized units
• Neuroscience decentralized units
• Oncology decentralized units
• Surgery decentralized units

• Facilitates assigned patient service lines and therapeutic areas and assumes responsibility for the outcomes of the pharmacy care programs in assigned practice areas
• Oversees and facilitates the pharmaceutical care programs and activities within assigned services
• Assures pharmacy care programs are meeting the needs of patients
• Assures pharmacy is an integral part of the health-care delivery system
• Enhances pharmacy services
• Identifies opportunities to improve the medication use system and benchmarks service lines against best practice
• Designs and implements new stewardship activities and restriction/surveillance programs
• Implements new pharmacy programs to promote optimal med usage and outcomes
• Tracks and benchmarks assigned pharmacy programs for operational, quality, and financial efficiency

• Teamwork and Inter-Professional Collaboration

• Presents to assigned areas on time, ready to work and does not exhibit unscheduled absenteeism
• Adheres to lunch and break schedule

• Assures continuity of care between shifts, among pharmacy staff assignments, and across pharmacy practice areas
• Assures appropriate handoff between shifts and participates in Energizers/Meetings
• Accepts any necessary work from preceding and does not leave excessive work for following shift
• Reviews and catches up the rejected order queue as well as medication-related products to be checked (patient-specific doses, Pyxis fills, med batches, trays, etc.) prior to departing from shift

• Supports other pharmacy operations and areas outside of current assignment
• Collaborates regarding medication order verification and medication availability
• Communicates with appropriate pharmacist regarding problem orders or patient care requests
• Provides coverage of medication order verification when areas are uncovered, or team needs support

• Works effectively with all members of the healthcare team to ensure the best outcome for the patient
• Demonstrates sensitivity to the perspective of the patient, caregiver, or health care colleague in all communications
• Actively supports teammates (pharmacists, technicians, managers)
• Uses effective negotiation skills to resolve conflicts

What You Will Need:

· Bachelor of Pharmacy, Doctor of Pharmacy, or other advanced pharmacy degree

· PGY1 Pharmacy Residency or three years of clinical pharmacy experience

• Advance Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
• Applicable State Pharmacy License