What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clinical Pharmacist position at Birdi?
Essential Duties / Responsibilities :
- Provide oversight and clinical pharmaceutical care outlined in Patient Care Program
- Prevent, detect, and resolve medication-related problems and make appropriate evidence-based, patient-centered medication therapy recommendations
- Verify prescription to be dispensed contains the correct medication and labeling according to company and regulatory guidelines
- Provide drug information and education to patients, healthcare providers, and other care team members
- Identify high risk patients and provide documented clinical intervention
- Assist patients with the initiation, coordination, and referral to external healthcare services when necessary
- Counsel patients and caregivers on medication and disease management, safe administration measures, and side effect management strategies during established points in therapy and upon request
- Perform verification of prescriptions for appropriateness and accuracy
- Ensure a drug utilization review is completed with each prescription dispensed
- Provide clinical intervention prospectively, concurrently and retrospectively
- Actively participate in the development and implementation of performance improvement, quality improvement, and patient safety activities
- Report medication errors, adverse drug reactions, and medication recalls appropriately
- Participate in clinical program development, critical pathways, disease management, and drug utilization programs
- Maintain knowledge of specialty medications and administration delivery systems
- Demonstrate quality and safety in the medication distribution process
- Educate internal staff on specialty medications
- Provide in-service and / or education to healthcare professionals outside of the organization when required
- Other duties as assigned
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