Pharmacist - Acute Care - Military veterans preferred

Oregon Health & Science University

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Pharmacist - Acute Care

US-OR-Portland

Job ID: 2025-33861
Type: Regular Part-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Pharmacy
Portland, OR (Marquam Hill)

Overview

• Identifies, resolves and documents complex therapeutic problems, demonstrating advanced knowledge and application of this knowledge to a specific patient population.

• Interprets and evaluates physician's orders and prescriptions for accuracy, completeness and appropriateness. Documents activities of clinical decision or medication distribution issues that are not in line with the standard of

  practice, require follow-up, or continued monitoring/evaluation. Verify the accuracy and appropriateness of medications prepared and dispensed from the central pharmacy.

• Responds accurately to requests for drug information from physicians, nurses, patients and patient's families; independently reviews and interprets the literature and applies this information to specific patient care situations.

• Monitors therapeutic response and adverse effects of medications to guide drug therapy. Consults with provider when questions or problems are identified and documents activies in the patient medical record. Appropriately reports all adverse drug reactions, drug defects, and medication errors

• Assists in the reconciliation of medications, education of patients regarding their home medication regimens, and coordination of the discharge medication plan with the interdisciplinary team. Documents activities in the patient medical record.

• Other Duties as assigned

• A current Pharmacist’s license issued by the Oregon State Board of Pharmacy.
• BS in Pharmacy or Pharm.D.
• Inpatient hospital pharmacy practice: Ability to meet the pharmaceutical care needs of the following patient care types: Acute care, psychiatric, rehabilitiaion, skilled nursing, long-term care, obstetric, oncology, chemically dependent, HIV, home care, hospice.

Job Related Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (Competencies):

• Demonstrates the ability to: Enforce pharmaceutical care principles safely and accurately
• Make age-related modification of drug therapy
• Make disease-related modification of drug therapy
• Evaluate medical literature Work independently without minimal direct supervision
• Handle multiple tasks and frequent interruptions
• Communicate effectively both formally and infomrally, including presentations
• Project manage Work with a team professionally and collaboratively
• Set priorities to respond quickly to emergent situations/requests
• Work cooperatively with health-system and pharmacy staff
• Perform work accurately with attention to detail
• Exercise sound professional judgement
• Perform systematic problem solving
• Enforce practice guidelines,standards, and medication related policies
• Make critical decisions
• Perform key computuer related skills including use of the EMR, common word processing, spreadsheet, medical literature and medicatioin databases

• PGY-2 Specialty Residency BLS/ACLS certification Vaccination certification Teaching Certificate
• Outpatient pharmacy clerical rotation, Transitions of Care, Discharge Medication Education, Surgical or Internal Medicine Services, Pain Management, and Medication Reconciliation.
• Specialist Certifications (BCPS, BCOPS, etc)

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