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Texas Children's Hospital

Clinical Staff Pharmacist - Neurology (Days)

Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States, 77246

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Overview

Clinical Staff Pharmacist for Neurology — Days. Responsible for managing and promoting safe and effective medication use, and assisting in direct patient care activities to promote optimal drug therapy for patients from 0 to adult. Job Duties & Responsibilities

Actively participates in multi-disciplinary rounds with medical specialty service. Ensures the appropriateness of all medication doses in reference to the patient’s diagnosis, clinical status, weight/body surface area, allergies, and drug interactions. Identifies patients with special needs and oversees coordination of activities to ensure proper delivery of drug therapy. Performs outcome-directed therapeutic drug monitoring for patients according to guidelines. Monitors therapy for drug, drug-nutrient, drug-laboratory interactions and discusses interactions with appropriate health care professionals to help ensure patient safety. Performs outcome-directed pharmacokinetic monitoring for patients according to guidelines and discusses recommendations with appropriate medical professionals to help provide the best care for the patient. Accurately verifies medication orders in the electronic medical record. Ensures a safe medication use process. Participates in the education of patients, care givers, and the community. Supports patient safety systems. Completes intervention documentation in the electronic medical record according to guidelines. Performs and documents patient profile review according to guidelines. Performs and documents discharge prescription review according to guidelines. Enforces the non-formulary medication guidelines. Checks all available means of communication including e-mail, mailbox, and voice mail every shift. Ensures a work environment that is clean, neat, and organized according to departmental standards. As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards. Qualifications

Required bachelor\'s degree in Pharmacy and PharmD degree Required RPH - Pharmacist by the State of Texas Preferred 1-year PGY1 ASHP-accredited Pharmacy Residency or 3 years clinical experience as pharmacist in a hospital pharmacy setting with multi-disciplinary rounding responsibilities About Us

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. Texas Children’s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine. Equal Opportunity

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.

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