Home Infusion Pharmacy Pharmacist Job at Oregon Health & Science University
Department Overview:
This position is to function at higher decision making and accountability levels regarding medication therapy, proactively affecting medication use by making recommendations and making independent decisions about home infusion medication therapy in cooperation with other healthcare team members. Additional services provided to home infusion patients include facilitation of medication delivery of medications through coordination of care with all health care team members.
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 home infusion drug therapy. Consults with provider when questions or problems are identified. Appropriately reports all adverse drug reactions, drug defects, and medication errors.
Interprets and evaluates physician's orders and prescriptions for accuracy, completeness and appropriateness. Verify the accuracy and appropriateness of medications prepared and dispensed from the home infusion pharmacy. Supervise the activities and assume responsibility for all duties being performed by pharmacy technicians in your work areas.
Directs the work of students/residents and monitors and evaluates their performance.
Influences standards of therapy by forming peer level relationships with patient's physicians and all other care teams.
Assists in the development of treatment guidelines to be used in patients with specific diagnosis. Documents activities in the patient medical record, pharmacy monitoring profile, drug use evaluation data collection or adverse drug reaction reporting program. Required Qualifications:
This position comes with fabulous benefits! Highlights include:
As an organization devoted to the health and well-being of people in Oregon and beyond, OHSU requires its employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
The purpose of this position is to provide the services of a licensed pharmacist which includes the responsibility for the safe and proper distribution and use of medications in outpatient settings who range in age from infants, children, adolescents, adults and elderly.
This position is to function at higher decision making and accountability levels regarding medication therapy, proactively affecting medication use by making recommendations and making independent decisions about home infusion medication therapy in cooperation with other healthcare team members. Additional services provided to home infusion patients include facilitation of medication delivery of medications through coordination of care with all health care team members.
The pharmacist must possess strong communication skills for patient education and work collaboratively with inpatient and outpatient interdisciplinary teams including but not limited to providers, nurses, case workers, pharmacists, and technicians, as well as, the teaching and precepting component of students, interns and/or residents.
Function/Duties of Position:
Identifies, resolves and documents complex therapeutic problems, demonstrating advanced knowledge and application of this knowledge to a home infusion patient population.
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 home infusion drug therapy. Consults with provider when questions or problems are identified. Appropriately reports all adverse drug reactions, drug defects, and medication errors.
Interprets and evaluates physician's orders and prescriptions for accuracy, completeness and appropriateness. Verify the accuracy and appropriateness of medications prepared and dispensed from the home infusion pharmacy. Supervise the activities and assume responsibility for all duties being performed by pharmacy technicians in your work areas.
Directs the work of students/residents and monitors and evaluates their performance.
Influences standards of therapy by forming peer level relationships with patient's physicians and all other care teams.
Assists in the development of treatment guidelines to be used in patients with specific diagnosis. Documents activities in the patient medical record, pharmacy monitoring profile, drug use evaluation data collection or adverse drug reaction reporting program.
- BS in Pharmacy or Pharm.D.
- Licensure in the State of Oregon
- Ambulatory or outpatient infusion pharmacy practice
- 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 informally, 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
- Communicate effectively and professionally (orally and in writing)
- 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 computer related skills including use of the EMR, common word processing, spreadsheet, medical literature and medication databases
Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without accommodation.
Preferred Qualifications:
- BS in Pharmacy or Pharm.D. PLUS Practice Residency or 2 years of working at an infusion pharmacy location
- Specialist Certifications (BCPS, BCOPS, etc.)
Environment, Physical Requirements & Equipment Usage
- Ability to handle competing demands from nurses, physicians, pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals, as they attempt to influence clinical decision-making, clinical policies and practices and work flow
- Must deal with intense situations on a daily basis
- Ability to deal with frequent interruptions (work is often dictated by external factors) that may lead to mental fatigue or stress
- Standing, walking, stooping, reaching, talking and hearing
- Clarity of vision at 20 feet and 20 inches or less; adjustment of eye to bring object into sharp focus
- Ability to handle 1 – 5 pounds by hand frequently
- Telephone, pager, copier, fax, scanner, personal computer/terminal, common application software.
This position comes with fabulous benefits! Highlights include:
- Vacation - up to 208 hours per year pending length of service for full-time employees
- Sick Leave - 64 hours per year for full-time employees
- 10 paid holidays per year
- Comprehensive medical, dental & vision care plans. Covered 100% for full-time employees and 88% for dependents
- $25K of term life insurance provided at no cost to the employee
- Retirement: Choose between pension plan or employee matching voluntary savings plan
- Substantial Tri-met and C-Tran discounts
- Tuition Reimbursement
- OHSU is a non-profit organization, so we qualify for the Public Loan Forgiveness Program
- Innovative Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee Discounts
As an organization devoted to the health and well-being of people in Oregon and beyond, OHSU requires its employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
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