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Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Ambulatory Cardiology

University Hospitals
20800 Harvard Avenue (Show on map)
Dec 23, 2024
Description

Essential Functions



  • Develop collaborative interprofessional team relationships and effectively communicate with patients virtually to increase engagement with the clinical pharmacy program
  • Take initiative to appropriately optimize and prescribe new medications within a consult agreement or collaborative practice agreement (CPA)
  • Ensure adequate patient follow-up and monitoring to improve chronic disease management (specifically heart failure, atrial fibrillation, diabetes, weight loss, etc.), quality metrics, medication safety and adherence
  • Increase prescription volume to our internal UH retail pharmacies and identify new opportunities to advance clinical pharmacy services
  • Educate students from schools of pharmacy and pharmacy residents within UH Health System
  • Provide Clinical Pharmacy Services (drug information, drug therapy monitoring, patient specific consultations, healthcare staff education, pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomic evaluations in selected patient populations)
  • Investigate/research/report adverse drug reactions
  • Participate in Medication Safety and Therapeutics (MS&T) Committee process: evaluate requests for new drug usage and old formulary drug relevance and review therapeutic classes for relevance, assist in maintaining and updating the system formulary
  • Serve as an informational and patient problem solving resource for Clinical Pharmacists and other healthcare professionals
  • Provide continuing education to Clinical Pharmacist staff
  • Documentation of clinical activities
  • Serve as a preceptor for pharmacy residents and pharmacy students
  • Actively participate in local and system committees and workgroups pertaining to the Clinical Pharmacy Specialist's area of expertise


Required For All Jobs



  • Performs other duties as assigned.
  • Complies with all policies and standards.
  • For specific duties and responsibilities, refer to documentation provided by the department during orientation.
  • Must abide by all requirements to safely and securely maintain Protected Health Information (PHI) for our patients. Annual training, the UH Code of Conduct and UH policies and procedures are in place to address appropriate use of PHI in the workplace.

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