Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Oncology II
- Honolulu, HI
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provides pharmaceutical care services for defined high risk patient populations.
- Ensures continuity of pharmaceutical care and optimal utilization of resources to and from acute and ambulatory patient-care settings.
- Recommends and/or reviews laboratory tests to assess patient response to drug therapy.
- Identifies medication therapy problems as appropriate.
- Analyzes requestors drug information need.
- Employs systematic, efficient, and thorough procedure for retrieving drug information.
- Follows up consistently on drug information recommendations and assesses effectiveness.
- Performs drug regimen reviews for members as warranted.
- Assesses patients where necessary and communicates information to physician.
- Provides direct oversight for functions and activities of support personnel to assure responsibilities are performed in accordance with scope of practice and applicable procedures.
- Adapts effective strategies for communicating with non-English speaking patients or those who are otherwise impaired (e.g., blind, deaf, cognitively impaired, illiterate).
- Designs and recommends pharmacotherapeutic regimens and corresponding monitoring plans to prescribers in way that is systematic, logical, and secures consensus from prescriber and patient.
- Monitors data and modifies pharmacotherapeutic plans as necessary.
- Documents pharmaceutical care activities in patients' medical records or clinical information system.
- Participates, as appropriate, in development and/or implementation of regional drug initiatives or other formulary management activities.
- Participates in establishing disease state management protocols in coordination with HPMG physicians, Clinic Nursing, and the Pharmacy and Therapeutics committee.
- Collaborates with inpatient/outpatient pharmacist or established Regional disease management program(s) for follow-up with high-risk discharges.
- As needed, participates in designing, reviewing, monitoring, or researching clinical drug trials.
- Designs effective medication-use education for patients and caregivers.
- Provides one-on-one counseling to patients and caregivers, including information on drug therapy, adverse effects, compliance, appropriate use, and handling.
- Provides patient-specific verbal or written consultations, including pharmacotherapy and pharmacokinetic, to healthcare practitioners.
- May perform limited physical examinations, such as blood pressure and glucose measurement, for the purpose of providing medication management services.
- Participates in monitoring and improving relevant outcome measures and/or quality improvement (QI) indicators.
- Defines QI processes.
- Develops measures to monitor, assures safety and appropriateness.
- Participates in Regional medication management and formulary education programs to promote appropriate, cost-effective prescribing.
- Participates in task forces, lecture programs and skills certification for patients, providers, pharmacy staff, and support staff at departmental, Regional, national, and international levels as warranted.
- Establishes relationships with physicians and facility leaders to successfully partner on drug therapy issues.
- Balances cost and quality issues.
- Participates in didactic or clerkship education of pharmacy students, and/or serves as preceptor of residents as warranted.