Description du poste
The Clinical Pharmacy Specialist (CPS) is a licensed pharmacist who functions at the highest level of clinical practice and works independently as a Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner (CPP) under their scope of practice to directly care for patients. The CPP serves as an advanced practice provider who functions to initiate, modify or discontinue medication therapy and as a consultant for intensive medication therapy management services.
PRINCIPALES MISSIONS :
The CPP will be assigned to the PACT team in the primary care clinics. Teams are located in the main facility and associated community-based outpatient clinics. The CPP will be consulted by their team(s) for comprehensive medication management of complex patients with chronic diseases commonly seen in the primary care setting. Clinical 1) Core functions include face-to-face, telephone, and VA video connect (VVC) encounters with referred patients, for comprehensive medication management in practice areas identified in their individual scope of practice. 2) Functions as an advanced practice provider to design, implement, and monitor therapeutic drug plans with an independent scope of practice. i. Initiates, modifies or discontinues patient's medication therapy for intensive medication therapy management services. Provides patient-specific drug therapy modifications to maximize patient response and minimizing drug interactions, adverse drug effects, and polypharmacy while providing cost-effective treatment. The assessments are based on clinical reviews and objective measures. ii. Orders, performs, reviews and analyzes appropriate laboratory tests and other diagnostic studies necessary to monitor and support the patient's drug therapy. Provides follow-up with patients on lab or test results to discuss the plan of therapy (i.e. changes in medication therapy, monitoring and evaluation, additional testing requirements, referral to primary care or specialty care physician). iii. Ensures therapeutic appropriateness of a patient's drug regimen, reviewing for potential therapeutic duplications, drug-drug, drug-food, drug-laboratory, or drug-disease interactions. iv. Evaluates and orders supply items as appropriate for patient care. v. Determines if a referral to the physician is necessary when disease progression occurs or adverse drug events require treatment interventions outside of the CPP scope of practice. 3) Serves as an independent anticoagulation provider in the anticoagulation clinic as needed/scheduled. 4) Supervises the activities of clinical pharmacy technician(s). i. Monitors and directs the clinical pharmacy technician(s) in patient care responsibilities. Reports any serious problems to supervisor. ii. Assigns tasks and sets priorities for clinical pharmacy technician(s) when in the practice area. Provides guidance and direction as needed for efficient accomplishment of tasks assigned. iii. Reviews the work of the clinical pharmacy technician(s) and takes corrective action if needed. Drug Information 1) Serves as an authority on drug usage, interactions, over-dosages, and adherence to medical staff, nursing staff, technicians, and students. 2) Has good working knowledge of information resources, both written and electronic. 3) Recommends formulary alternatives and completes non-formulary consults as assigned. 4) Provides timely and accurate responses to drug information inquiries from all customers. Education 1) Assumes an active role in staff development of peers and provides pharmacy-related educational opportunities to nursing, medical staff or to other ancillary services. 2) Maintains his/her professional competency by keeping abreast of current medical and pharmaceutical literature, new drugs and therapies, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacotherapeutics in the area of practice. 3) Participates in the training and in-servicing of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy students, pharmacy residents, and other staff on assigned teams. 4) Serves as pr
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