Pharmacist - Full Time | Clinical Psychiatry

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Facility: Sanford Medical Center Fargo

Location: Fargo, ND

Shift: Varies

Job Schedule: Full time

Weekly Hours: 40.00

Job Summary

Review prescriptions to assure accuracy, to ascertain the needed ingredients, and to evaluate their suitability. Provide information and advice regarding drug interactions, side effects, dosage, and proper medication storage. In a medical center or institutional setting, the Pharmacist reviews and interprets provider orders, provides drug information, assists in problem solving, and provides other aspects of pharmaceutical care. Duties may consist of unit dose dispensing, IV Admixtures, outpatient prescriptions, navigating the electronic medical record, compounding, and working with automated dispensing devices. The Pharmacist utilizes appropriate age-related patient information to assess the pharmaceutical needs of patients, which may include provision of pharmaceutical care to neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients. The Pharmacist follows all established regulations and standards that govern the practice of pharmacy. May be required to act as a shift supervisor under direct or indirect supervision by department managers. Demonstrates good written and verbal communication skills. Must be able to learn and utilize new technology as the profession of pharmacy evolves. Provides oversight and clinical supervision for pharmacy services and pharmacy support personnel.
Pharmacy services at Sanford Health may include involvement in acute care surgery, neurology, cardiology, pediatrics, oncology, infusion services, intensive care, general medicine, dialysis, transplant, antimicrobial stewardship, and medication reconciliation. May include decentralized clinical functions, such as direct patient interaction/interdisciplinary team rounding, chart reviews, customer or patient counseling, collecting accurate medication list. May also include centralized clinical functions, such as checking and dispensing medications and overseeing the clinical functions of the IV room.

Department Details

The Pharmacy Department is seeking a full time pharmacist to provide clinical pharmacy services for child, adolescent, and adult psychiatric patients as a member of a multidisciplinary team at Sanford. This Pharmacist will be decentralized in the inpatient psychiatry area at our South University campus and responsible for order verification, med rec, clinical monitoring, interdisciplinary rounds, conducting medication groups (for inpatient psychiatry and partial hospitalization patients), and daily consultation with providers, residents and other interprofessional team members. The successful candidate will be the primary psychiatric preceptor for PGY1 pharmacy residents and pharmacy students. This role will also involve remote coverage of an inpatient medical-surgical floor with patients at high risk for agitation, involving order verification and clinical consultations. This position is full time (40 hours per week, 8-hr shifts), involving an emphasis in psychiatric day shifts, with some evening shifts and an every 4th weekend rotation through our central pharmacy. The successful candidate will have advanced training and/or certification in psychiatry (eg. PGY2 psychiatry pharmacy, BCPP).
In addition to psychiatry services, pharmacy services at Sanford Medical Centers include involvement in acute care surgery, neurology, cardiology, pediatrics, oncology, general medicine, dialysis, transplant, antimicrobial stewardship, and medication reconciliation. Our decentralized pharmacist positions include many clinical activities such as pharmacokinetics, TPN ordering and monitoring, anticoagulation dosing, renal dosing, IV to PO adjustments, and antimicrobial stewardship. All pharmacist staff are trained in the central pharmacy and IV room. The Sanford Medical Centers in Fargo include a Level 1 Trauma Center and Comprehensive Stroke Center.

Qualifications

In a medical center or institutional setting: Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy. Must have a thorough knowledge of drugs and their actions; knowledge of state and local regulations. Hospital experience or residency preferred.
License must be in good standing by the State Board of Pharmacy in state(s) of practice and/or possess multi-state licensure privileges as required by position.
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Job Function: Allied Health

Req Number: R-29593

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