Advanced Patient Care Pharmacist - Co-Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship - Columbus Ohio

Company: Nationwide Children's Hospital
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Posted On: 04/15/2024

Overview

Advanced Patient Care Pharmacist - Co-Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship

The Advanced Patient Care Pharmacist is responsible for working with the multidisciplinary patient care team which may include prescribers, nurses, pharmacists, dieticians, and other members of the patient care team (i.e., laboratory technicians, respiratory therapy) to provide optimal pharmaceutical care to Nationwide Children's Hospital patients in a focused practice area. The Advanced Patient Care Pharmacist demonstrates competency across all areas of pediatric clinical pharmacy practice, and provides age-appropriate care to patients from the age of birth through 21 years, and select adult patient populations. In addition, the Advanced Patient Care Pharmacist routinely participates in teaching, research, quality improvement endeavors, and scholarly activities.

Schedule: (Full-Time, Benefits Eligible)

Location:

Central Campus700 Children's DrColumbus, Ohio 43205

Why Nationwide Children's Hospital?

The moment you walk through our doors, you feel it. When you meet our patient families, you believe it. And when you talk with anyone who works here, you want to be part of it. Welcome to Nationwide Children's Hospital, Where Passion Meets Purpose.

Here, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are integrated into our core values and practices. We are passionate about building, sustaining and evolving an inclusive and equitable environment. We are seeking individuals who live these values and want to share their experiences and efforts in support of our collective mission.

We're 14,000 strong. And it takes every one of us to improve the lives of the kids we care for, and the kids around the world we'll never meet. Kids who live healthier, fuller lives because of the knowledge we share. We know it takes a Collaborative Culture to deliver on our promise to provide the very best, innovative care and to foster new discoveries, made possible by the most groundbreaking research. Anywhere.

Ask anyone with a Nationwide Children's badge what they do for a living. They'll tell you it's More Than a Job. It's a calling. It's a chance to use and grow your talent to make an impact that truly matters. Because here, we exist simply to help children everywhere.

Nationwide Children's Hospital. A Place to Be Proud.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a member of the patient care team as the pharmacotherapy expert, such as: rounds with the medical team to prospectively recommend and evaluate individualized drug therapy, makes recommendations to achieve best outcomes in an evidence-based and patient-specific manner while considering pharmacoeconomic principles, and prospectively identifies potential adverse drug reactions, drug-drug, drug-disease and drug-food interactions, and incompatibilities affecting patient outcomes.
• Coordinates and maintains the antimicrobial stewardship program, including:
• Overseeing daily stewardship operations
• Create agile and innovative programs to improve antimicrobial utilization throughout the organization
• Maintain antimicrobial formulary and work with infectious diseases service line to evaluate appropriate use of restricted antimicrobials
• Develop pathways for appropriate antimicrobial use in collaboration with the infectious disease team
• Monitor and trend antimicrobial usage throughout the Nationwide Children's Hospital organization, including inpatient, ambulatory and accountable care areas
• Documents direct patient care, clinical, operational, and financial outcomes and activities appropriately in the medical record.
• Provides appropriate handoff for pharmacists and other healthcare providers to follow up on anticipated pharmacotherapy needs, including medication changes. Collaborates with other members of the pharmacy team to assure continuity of care and consistency of practice
• Participates in the clinical pharmacy on-call program, including weekend coverage.
• Engagement in annual Professional Development Index expectations, including:
• Precepts PGY2 Pediatric Pharmacy Residents, PGY1 Pharmacy Residents, Doctor of Pharmacy students and Pediatric Pharmacy Fellows
• Provides team-based education and training to medical staff, fellows, residents and students. Develops, provides and participates in Pharmacy Department staff development activities
• Participates in research and scholarly activities as an investigator or consultant to the pharmacy, medical, and nursing staff. Routine contribution and external scholarship is expected through publication of articles in peer-reviewed journals or conference abstracts
• Participates on departmental and/or hospital committees as related to medication safety and/or quality improvement initiatives while demonstrating pharmacy practice leadership. Minimum involvement in one or more committee is expected in addition to routine medication safety contributions.
  Qualifications
  
  KNOWLEDGE , SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED
  
  Education:
  
  * Doctor of Pharmacy (preferred) or Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college of pharmacy.
  
  Licensure:
  
  * Licensure, or licensure-eligibility, to practice pharmacy in the state of Ohio
  
  Certification:
  
  * BPS Board Certification (or eligible for testing, with certification to be obtained within 24 months of hire)
  
  Experience:
  
  * Minimum qualifications: PGY1 and PGY2 pharmacy residencies (or PGY1 residency and PGY2 fellowship) OR PGY1 residency with 3 years of hospital pharmacist practice experience (pediatrics preferred) with responsibility for direct clinical patient care similar to that provided through a PGY2 residency, OR 5 years of hospital pharmacist practice experience (pediatrics preferred) with responsibility for direct clinical patient care similar to that provided through a PGY2 residency
  
  The above list of duties is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this classification. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties performed by the individual so classified, nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under his/her supervision.
  
  EOE M/F/Disability/Vet
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