Unit Based Pharmacist – Full Time

Overview

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better – advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

The Unit Based Pharmacist is a patient-centered, unit-based model of care that integrates pharmacists with responsibility for both the clinical and the distributive activities of the pharmacy department. Pharmacists are actively engaged in medication management in coordination with physicians and the interdisciplinary team and exhibit a high degree of ownership and accountability for the medication-use process.

• This is a Unit Based Pharmacist position specific to Emergency Department, critical care.
• PGY1 Required
• PGY 2(Emergency Medicine) Preferred

Responsibilities

A day in the life of a Unit Based Pharmacist at Hackensack Meridian Health includes:

1. Validate medication reconciliation: Reconcile medications upon admission for admitted patients. Reconcile medications for patients based on criteria and patient needs prior to discharge to ensure continuity of care.

2. Perform patient assessment and counseling: Develop individualized treatment and monitoring plans for patients. Educate patients about new medications. Counsel patients who are prescribed high-risk medications or complex medication regimens on their discharge medications during inpatient hospitalization.

3. Facilitate discharges: Identify barriers to patient medication adherence and work with the interdisciplinary team to address these issues prior to discharge. 

4. Collaborate with the doctors to optimize cost-effective and evidence based: Review and validate all orders prior to the first dose administered. Monitor patient medication profiles daily. Participate in patient care rounds.

5. Drive improved outcomes: Prevent 30 day readmissions, increase HCAHPS scores, and improve patient safety indicators.

6. Other duties and/or projects as assigned.

7. Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

Qualifications

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

1. Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college of Pharmacy.

2. Possess strong interpersonal skills and work well at the team level, as well as independently.

3. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

4. Proficient computer skills that include but are not limited to Microsoft Office and/or Google Suite platforms.

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred:

1. Doctoral Degree in Pharmacy.

2. A minimum of one (1) year Pharmacist experience in a hospital setting.

Licenses and Certifications Required:

1. Registered Pharmacist License.

2. Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Certification, or obtained within 6 months of hire.

If you feel the above description speaks directly to your strengths and capabilities, then please apply today!

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