What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Internal Medicine position at Flushing Hospital?
Flushing Hospital Medical Center is a 293-bed, not-for-profit teaching hospital. The hospital offers a variety of services for a culturally diverse community, including Bariatric Surgical Service, Ambulatory Care Center, Women’s Health Center, Wound Care Center, and Chemical Dependence Unit. Our busy on-site full-service pharmacy provides prescription services to discharged, emergency department, and clinic patients as well as employees. We are currently seeking an experienced Clinical Pharmacy Specialist for Internal Medicine for an immediate full-time position.
Responsibilities
- Serve as an Infectious Diseases subject matter expert for the facility.
- Leads and mentors all aspects of the antimicrobial management program and other clinical programs
- Develop institutional guidelines for the management of common infection syndromes
- Prepares and updates facility specific protocols and procedures
- Update antibiogram, empiric guidelines and duration of therapy recommendations on an annual basis
- Provides facility expertise on streamlining or de-escalation of drug therapy, dose optimization, and IV to PO conversion
- Provide expertise on pharmacodynamics (PD) and pharmacokinetic (PK) dosing, appropriate utilization protocols, drug restrictions, and antimicrobial management program initiatives.
- Collaborates with Infectious Diseases Physicians, Pharmacists, Infection Prevention, Clinical Laboratory and Microbiology, Informatics, Nursing and other professionals to conduct the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP).
- Develop strategies for appropriate antibiotic utilization including but not limited to antibiotic guidelines, clinical pathways, restriction criteria, policy development, new laboratory methods and formulary management.
- Establish processes to report and monitor ongoing anti-infective utilization and identified metrics showing effectiveness of ASP including but not limited to performing medication use evaluations and conducting prospective audits.
- Facilitates ongoing education to pharmacists, physicians, and other disciplines developing educational materials and providing in-services as needed.
Tagged as: im clinical pharmacy specialist
Salary : $140,000 - $150,000
