Professional Development

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Through telehealth, the Clinical Pharmacist Specialist will support patients within CareVio and the eBrightHealth ACO across the state and serve as a clinical lead in population health. This position will be aligned with the CareVio Advanced Disease Management and High Risk/Complex Patient Management domains, providing focused multidisciplinary support for patients with chronic or high-risk medical conditions to optimize and streamline medication regimens to current standards of care.

PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

Patient Care:

• Utilizes risk stratification tools to identify targeted high-risk patient population dependent on age, hospitalizations, ED visits, comorbid diagnoses (e.g. COPD, CHF, CKD), polypharmacy and behavioral health diagnosis.
• Documents drug use and compliance patterns, detect and evaluate adverse drug effects, evaluate drug efficiency, therapeutic goals and indications, reviews for contraindications/precautions, the patient's current status of health, and review drug profiles and patient's medical record for drug-drug, drug-food, drug-laboratory and drug-disease state(s) potentials.
• Evaluates appropriate laboratory tests necessary to monitor and support the patient's drug therapy program.
• Documents assessment, observations, impressions, recommendations, plan, significant findings, interventions, and services rendered as appropriate in the care management and electronic medical record system.
• Coordinates activities with health care team to perform enhanced medication reconciliation on high-risk populations and patients or as indicated by assessment.
• Reports, records, assess and evaluate adverse drug reactions and communicate with providers to mitigate risk and/or develop a treatment plan.
• Serves as a resource to recommend pharmacotherapy alternatives or adjustments to providers to enhance compliance, reduce potential errors, adverse drug events and to minimize cost burden.

Quality Improvement:

• Works to integrate IT into workflow to enhance communication about medications across care settings.
• Represent pharmacy on departmental and health system committees as assigned and contribute when pharmacotherapy issues are discussed.
• Support and assist interdepartmental projects as requested (e.g., newsletter articles, performance improvement activities, etc.).

Research and Scholarship:

• Contribute to the pharmacy and medical literature (e.g., case reports, letters to the editor, and therapeutic, pharmacokinetic, and pharmacoeconomic reports, peer reviewer).
• Participate in regional, national, and international meetings for the pharmacy and medical community.

Training and Education:

• Provide an interprofessional experience in training and mentoring pharmacy students, PGY-1 pharmacy residents, and PGY-2 pharmacy residents through experimental ambulatory care rotations.
• Provide direct oversight for resident-related projects as assigned (i.e., grand rounds, MUEs).
• Serve as a resource and mentor for clinical pharmacists.

Administrative:

• Coordinates and integrates pharmacist services with the operations of CareVio, as needed.
• Coordinates the creation, revision, and approval of policies in accordance with CareVio policy.
• Monitors performance metrics to identify areas of opportunity.
• Responsible for training new clinical personnel.
• Responsible for assigned departmental quality improvement programs and initiatives.
• Ensures medical record documentation and hand-offs between disciplines occur in a timely, effective, and compliant manner.
• Establishes processes that provide for escalation of patient care concerns, when appropriate

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS :

• PharmD from an ACPE accredited School of Pharmacy required
• ASHP-accredited PGY-1 residency required
• ASHP-accredited PGY-2 residency required
• BPS board certification required (BCACP preferred)
• Current licensure (or eligible to reciprocate) in the State of Delaware

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