Pharmacist (Facility Program Manager)

Job Title

Pharmacy Quality Improvement and Risk Management Specialist

Duties

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Quality Improvement and Risk Management
  • Coordinates ongoing, proactive processes to evaluate and improve safe medication management strategies.
  • Manages or assists with management of data collection, analysis, and review of medication safety related events and practices, including reports of Adverse Drug Events and medication errors.
  • Participates and facilitates root-cause analysis of significant medication errors. Examines the system failures and human factors contributing to medication errors.
  • Identifies the extent of the health system's adherence to published best practices and guidelines relevant to medication-use safety.
  • Identifies opportunities for proactive change in the medication-use system suggested by published events or recommendations focused on medication-use safety. Ensure health-system adoption of modifications to the medication-use system on the basis of comparison with best practices, guidelines, published events, and recommendations.
  • Participates in medical center and pharmacy service quality improvement initiatives.
• Legal and Regulatory Compliance
  • Ensures compliance with accreditation standards and with federal, state, and local regulations related to medication use.
  • Serves as a resource to pharmacy management and performance improvement departments on matters of medication safety.
  • Serves as a liaison representing the Pharmacy Service in safe medication practice issues.
• Program Management
  • Assists the Associate Chief of Pharmacy in developing medication safety goals and objectives.
  • Assists pharmacy leadership in the development, approval, and implementation of policies and procedures that support medication safety.
  • Participates in collaborative interdisciplinary practice through active participation in hospital committees, including serving as Co-Chair of Medication Safety Subcommittee.
  • Coordinates interdepartmental and intradepartmental medication safety activities.
  • Ensures that all patient-specific and medication-specific information needed to support effective medication-related patient care decisions is readily available in a useful form to physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other pertinent health care providers.
  • Consistently displays the principles of a Highly Reliable Organization supporting Just Culture and collaboration with other departments to improve the medication use process.
• Medication Standardization and Storage
  • Ensures that parenteral solutions, medication concentrations, doses, and administration items are standardized whenever possible.
  • Minimizes the potential for errors associated with medication products due to labeling, packaging, or medication names that look or sound alike.
  • Ensures that medication storage is safe and secure throughout the institution and aligns with local and national policy.
  • Ensures the safety of product changes.
• Medication-Use System Management
  • Ensures that processes for prescribing and monitoring medication therapy minimize the potential for medication errors.
  • Ensures that methods for the communication and transcription of medication orders minimize the risk of errors.
  • Ensures that double-check and other verifications are in place to ensure the safety of medications requiring special preparation (e.g. medications requiring extemporaneous compounding, antineoplastic agents, and new medication with unique preparation requirements).
• Education and Training
  • Participates in the training and in-servicing of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy residents, pharmacy students, and other medical center personnel as required.
  • Is skilled at using both written and verbal communication techniques in teaching others.
  • Serves as a preceptor for pharmacy residents and/or pharmacy students.
• Research Pharmacist Back-Up
  • Coordinates the receipt and distribution of drugs in an investigational and/or clinical evaluation status upon patient discharge from the facility if Research Pharmacy Program Manager is unavailable.
  • Conducts and coordinates clinical drug investigations and research under FDA guidelines and regulations and approval by the local R&D Committee.

The employee is administratively accountable to the Associate Chief, Pharmacy Operations, for professional licensure, competency, and continuing education.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 0730 - 1600

Telework: Adhoc only.

Functional Statement #: 41314-F

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized