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Christus Health

Clinical Pharmacist I - Pharm General - PRN (Hiring Immediately)

Christus Health, San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78207


**Description**

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_**Summary:**_

All pharmacists fill orders for drugs, monitor patient drug therapies andprovide drug information. Pharmacists provide pharmacy services withcompassion, excellence, and efficiency.

The CHRISTUS Children’s Hospital, established in 1959, was the firstchildren’s hospital in South-Central Texas. Located downtown, this 190-plus-bed hospital serves more than 70,000 children annually from San Antonio, SouthTexas and around the world. The hospital (in partnership with Baylor Collegeof Medicine) is the only academic children’s hospital in San Antonio. Ourhighly specialized services meet the unique medical needs of children, fromPediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care to Children’s Emergency Services, thelatest treatments for deformities of the spine including titanium rib implantsand halo traction, a Heart Center, a specialized asthma program, a highlyregarded Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, and growing maternal services toinclude consultation, delivery, and maternal fetal medicine.

_**Responsibilities:**_

• Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader ofSelf, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.

Operational Duties and Responsibilities• Prepares and dispenses drug orders per physician request according toestablished policies, procedures, and protocols.• Interprets drug orders (verbal and written) and transcribesverifies intocomputerized patient medication record accurately. Maintains, accurate,complete patient drug record.• Compounds and dispenses pharmaceuticals including non-sterile and sterileproducts, chemotherapy and parenteral nutrition products accurately.• Issues controlled substances to patient care areas and maintains records asrequired by law and institutional policies.• Provides services efficiently and in a timely fashion.• Maintains current pharmacist license. Ensures applicable CE records andlicensure are maintained in department files. Attends staff meetings.• Completes all competencyskills assessment requirements.• Supervises and directs pharmacy support personnel. Verifies the dailyactivities of pharmacy technicians• Ambulatory care Pharmacist: Provides ambulatory pharmaceutical care servicesutilizing approved protocols andor collaborative agreement with otherproviders, including managing patient drug therapy, anticoagulationmanagement, providing patient education, and preparing andor overseeing thepreparation and dispensing of medications. Performs duties in the clinicalareas assigned such as but not limited to anticoagulation clinics, intensivemedical home, transition of care, Discharge Medication reconciliation, etc.

Clinical Duties and Responsibilities• Ensures safe, appropriate, cost-effective drug therapies for patientsaccording to established policies, procedures, and protocols.• Monitors drug therapy regimens for contraindications, drug-druginteractions, drug-food interactions, allergies and appropriateness of drugand dose.• Assists with pharmacokinetics consult service and renal drug dosing perhospital protocol.• Reads, extracts, and interprets information in patient medical recordsaccurately.• Detects and reports suspected adverse drug reactions accurately and in atimely manner.• Sustains the hospital drug formulary, minimizing non-formulary procurements,utilizing therapeutic substitution protocols, and promoting rational drugtherapy selection.• Provides clinical consultation and clarification to practitioners asappropriate.• Provides accurate, adequate, and timely drug information to the hospital’sprofessional staff.• Provides drug education to patients and their families per institutionalprotocol.• Participates in the quality improvement and medication use review activitiesof the department. Collects data, conducts monitors and inspections, andmaintains logs, records and other documentation as assigned.• Conducts designated interventions as defined in department ClinicalIntervention activities (IV to PO, Renal Dosing, Pharmacokinetic dosingsupport, Anticoagulation). Baseline departmental standards for reportinginterventions for clinical productivity as defined by departmental goals.• Participates in antibiotic stewardship, opioid stewardship, and shortagemanagement activities as assigned.• Attends interdisciplinary rounds when assigned.• Provides services efficiently and in a timely fashion.

Occupational Hazards• Potential for exposure to hazardous and toxic substances (includingchemotherapeutic, cytotoxic drugs and cleaning solutions), sticks or cuts byneedles and other sharp items.• Risk 0 exposure category.• Potential for musculoskeletal injuries if proper lifting and carryingtechniques are not used.• Potential exposure to biologic material when participating in direct patientcare activities (e. g., patient education, code attendance).

_**Requirements:**_

**A. EducationSkills**

* Doctor of Pharmacy or BS Pharmacy degree required.

**B. Experience**

* Hospital experience preferred.

**C. Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications**

* Pharmacy registration in the State of practice.* Must have pharmacy State licensure within 60 days of start date.* BLS or ACLS and PALS (pediatric practice) within 180 days of start date.

**_Work Schedule:_**

Varies

**_Work Type:_**

Per Diem As Needed

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