Clinical Pharmacist - NICU

Job description

Schedule: - Monday to Friday - 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM with some variance - Call, Holiday and Weekend Rotations required - This position will cover Main Campus and Offsite NICU locations Job Description Summary: Works with multidisciplinary patient care team and patient/caregivers to provide optimal pharmaceutical care. Provides age-appropriate care to patients from the age of birth through 21 years and select adult patient populations. Job Description: Essential Functions: - Serves as a pharmacotherapy expert to prospectively recommend and evaluate individualized drug therapy. Provides therapeutic drug monitoring and recommends evidence-based patient-specific actions to achieve best outcomes, while considering pharmacoeconomic principles. Prospectively identifies potential adverse drug reactions, drug-drug, drug-disease, and drug-food interactions, and incompatibilities affecting patient outcomes. - Verifies medication orders to assure timely and accurate delivery in a form appropriate for the patient. Helps to operationalize recommendations through order verification as needed. Documents direct patient care, clinical, operational, financial outcomes, and activities appropriately in th...