Clinical Pharmacist (Outpatient)

Quick Facts

• Role: Clinical Pharmacist (Outpatient)

• Schedule: Rotating including weekends, evenings, and holidays (mostly Monday–Friday 8:00am–4:30pm)

• Telework: Not available

Description

The outpatient clinical pharmacist performs routine medication-related activities in accordance with local, VISN, and national policies. Responsibilities include reviewing and verifying medication orders for appropriateness, processing and filling orders, counseling patients, performing medication reconciliation and discharge support, and recommending therapy adjustments to ensure safe and effective care.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and assess patient therapies using knowledge of pharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacotherapeutics

• Perform medication reconciliation at discharge and support medication management issues (e.g., non-adherence, adverse drug event identification/reporting, polypharmacy, drug interactions, chronic narcotic use)

• Interview patients to identify medication issues (appropriateness, interactions, efficacy, therapeutic duplication, adverse events, compliance problems)

• Coordinate inpatient-to-outpatient transition support by ensuring correct refills and minimizing therapeutic duplication

• Intervene to reduce frequency of drug-related problems and adverse drug events

• Educate veterans and caregivers on proper medication use

• Document clinical activities, update problem lists, and maintain allergy information

• Evaluate drug regimens for drug-drug and drug-food interactions and adverse reactions

• Provide precepting/orientation to pharmacy students, residents, and other trainees

• Provide written and verbal drug information and discharge counseling

• Participate in staff development presentations

• Screen prescriber orders for appropriateness and dispense outpatient medications including controlled substances and investigational drugs

• Use VISTA and CPRS to maintain complete medication records and integrate patient/lab data into dispensing workflow

• Ensure professional standards, laws, regulations, and hospital guidelines are met for dispensing

• Participate as a Non-Formulary (NF) consult reviewer and complete consults within timeframes

• Document clinical interventions and provide requested quality assurance and medication use evaluation data

• Ensure national formulary and non-formulary procedures and criteria-for-use treatment algorithms are followed

• Work with technician supervisors to oversee staff technicians' work

• Provide courteous customer service and respond to patient/customer requests

• Solicit and use patient/customer feedback to improve pharmacy services

Benefits

A comprehensive federal benefits package is provided for employees and their families; eligibility depends on the type of position.