Pharmacy Resident |
| Location: | Lafayette, IN |
| Exempt/Non-Exempt: | Non-Exempt |
| Type: | Full-Time |
| Facility: | St. Elizabeth Regional Health |
| Description: | There are two Resident positions available:
The Pharmacy Resident will work with clinical specialists and pharmacist II by interacting with nursing, physicians, and any other healthcare professionals and patients to learn and to teach about medications and their role in disease management. The Pharmacy Practice Resident is responsible for all duties required of the clinical pharmacist including proper monitoring, dosing, and safe delivery of medications throughout the facility. The resident will also be responsible for completing evaluations, assignments, projects and demonstrating learning to effectively function as a clinical pharmacist, adjunct faculty member, or continue on to a PGY2 training year in a specialty of their choice. |
| Duties: | General Daily Operations
Reviews physician orders and checks for appropriateness, and provides all information needed to properly and safely administer the medication
Recognizes orders that are inappropriate and takes responsibility to assure that the order is modified promptly and correctly; documents interventions
Performs final check of all medications ready for distribution
Provides verbal and written information about drugs and drug therapy to other healthcare professionals and patients
Takes responsibility for recognizing and solving problems related to drug therapy, adverse drug reactions, drug-drug or drug-food interactions and pain management needs.
Performs patient counseling/medication reconciliation as requested
Provides controlled substances following the procedures established by law and this organization
Recommends initial dosing and timing of drug levels for a variety of medications
Compounds IV admixtures and chemotherapy if required
As appropriate to practice setting:
- Provides written pharmacokinetic consults
- Monitors and manages orders for parenteral nutrition
- Monitors neonatal and pediatric dosing
- Performs complex renal dosing
- Addresses complex infectious disease issues
- Manages or monitors pain therapy
- Manages and monitors tight glucose therapy
Medication Use Evaluation/Protocol Development
Monitor and evaluate specific medication use within practice setting for appropriateness and adherence to recent evidence supported by the literature
Propose any new medication use or practice changes in medication use based on new literature or revised national guidelines in the form of policy or order-set changes
Convert current literature and national guidelines into institutional guidelines
Perform any research associated with medication use evaluation and reduce it to presentable data for other healthcare professionals.
Educational Development
Prepare and present pharmacotherapeutic lectures to other healthcare professionals
Participate in development of clinical competencies for staff
Prepare education on informatics topics for healthcare professionals
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| Qualifications: | Working knowledge of pathophysiology, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, infectious disease, nutritional monitoring, and anticoagulation
Possesses problem solving skills
Ability to evaluate current literature using appropriate drug information resources
Ability to apply pharmacoeconomic principles to evaluation of medication use
Ability to learn new databases in the field of informatics
Minimum Position Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy or Pharm D
Prior hospital experience preferred
Current State of Indiana Pharmacist license or eligibility for an Indiana license required
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