Description
PGY-2 - Pharmacy Resident - Critical Care
Purpose:
Acts as a pharmacist in training in a specialty area of pharmacy practice. Develops advanced practice skills by providing comprehensive pharmaceutical care through integrated drug distribution, clinical services and teaching.
Key Responsibilities:
* Provides pharmaceutical care by assisting physicians, medical residents, and mid-level practitioners in various tasks, including, but not limited to, prospective and retrospective medication review, medication reconciliation, patient counseling, documentation of activities in the medical record, etc.
* Actively participates in multidisciplinary patient care rounds.
* Evaluates the appropriateness of indication, dose, dosage form, route of administration, allergy considerations, formulary status, medication interactions, therapeutic duplications, etc.
* Provides medication recommendations to the team to optimize patients' medication therapies.
* Provides pharmacy managed consult services for vancomycin, aminoglycosides, and warfarin.
* Provides additional pharmacist driven services including therapeutic interchange, IV to PO conversion, renal dosing adjustment, etc.
* Detects, monitors, documents, and reports adverse drug reactions and medication errors.
* Identifies and promotes cost containment strategies throughout the institution.
* Ensures compliance with controlled substance distribution.
* Serves as a medication information resource to health care professionals and patients.
* Precepts Doctor of Pharmacy Advanced Pharmacy Practice students, as well as Post-Graduate Year 1 pharmacy residents in conjunction with the resident's clinical rotation duties.
* Participates in the quality improvement activities of the department by conducting a medication usage evaluation and a clinical research project. Results are reported to the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, as well as at local and national conferences as appropriate.
* Provides continuing education sessions on medication-related topics to the medical and pharmacy staff at Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
* Participate in clinical rotations aligned with various sub-specialties in the area of focus of the PGY2 residency program.
* Performs other duties as required or assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
* Previous health system experience required.
* Must be able to work independently with minimal direct supervision, to set priorities, make critical decisions, respond quickly to emergency requests, handle frequent interruptions, and adapt to changes in workload.
* Good written and verbal communication skills are essential.
Required Licensure/Certification Skills:
* Graduate of an Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) accredited degree program (or one in process of pursuing accreditation) or have a Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Committee (FPGEC) certificate from the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP).
* Must be licensed or eligible for licensure as a pharmacist in the state of NH.
* The applicant must be participating in, or have completed, an ASHP-accredited PGY1 pharmacy residency program or one in the ASHP accreditation process.
