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Job Summary

Massachusetts General Hospital is currently seeking a highly motivated candidate to join our clinical pharmacy team. This clinical position is for an Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Clinical Pharmacist.

The Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Clinical Pharmacist will rotate through advanced heart failure and heart transplant service lines, serving as an expert of heart failure and transplant pharmacotherapy for the interdisciplinary HF/Transplant team. This position requires application of advanced heart failure and transplant training to lead pharmacotherapy discussion on interdisciplinary rounds, as well as education for patients and healthcare professionals. This clinical pharmacist will contribute to protocols and guidelines, quality improvement and research projects, and transplant training for residents and students. The HF/Transplant clinical pharmacist is an exceptional resource to the Pharmacy, Cardiology, and Transplant Departments, with whom they collaborate closely.

Clinical Pharmacists assume responsibility and accountability for the provision of safe, effective, and prompt medication therapy. Clinical Pharmacists proficiently provide direct patient-centered care and integrated pharmacy operational services with physicians, nurses, and other hospital personnel to deliver optimal medication therapy to patients with a broad range of disease states. These clinicians are aligned with target interdisciplinary programs and specialty services to deliver medication therapy management and to ensure pharmaceutical care programs are appropriately integrated throughout the institution. Pharmaceutical care services include, but are not limited to, assessing patient needs, incorporating age and disease specific characteristics into drug therapy and patient education, adjusting care according to patient response, and providing clinical interventions to detect, mitigate, and prevent medication adverse events. Clinical Pharmacists serve as departmental resources and liaisons to other departments, hospital personnel, or external groups. They proficiently manage the appropriate use of medications according to professional and regulatory standards. They also conduct practice-related research and patient care, quality, and regulatory compliance initiatives designed to improve medication-use processes or pharmacy practice. Finally, Clinical Pharmacists provide medication and practice-related education/training and actively serve as preceptors for pharmacy residents and Doctor of Pharmacy students (MGH Pharmacy Residency website: https://www.massgeneral.org/education/pharmacy-residency.)

Qualifications

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

As it pertains to the service area in the pharmacy department, responsible for the optimization of drug therapy by identification, resolution, and prevention of drug related problems and improving therapeutic outcomes.

Responsible for providing direct or indirect patient care according to the laws and regulations governing pharmacists and the practice of pharmacy by the appropriate state and federal agencies. When assigned to particular pharmacy service teams, maybe responsible for prescribing medications under specific collaborative drug therapy management agreements (CDTM).

Works independently, and within the limits of established pharmacy/ambulatory care practice site’s policies and procedures, as a member of the patient care team. Directs and coordinates the activities of a pharmacy service area. Supervises all support personnel during an assigned shift, operating within the limits of pharmacy policy and procedures, and the regulations of the Board of Registration Pharmacy. Takes lead as a subject matter expert in their areas of practice at the site and system level.

The following are essential job functions for Clinical Pharmacists:

Percent of Time Spent

Lead assigned patient service lines, clinical areas, and therapeutic programs:

Facilitate pharmaceutical care, direct patient care programs, medication utilization systems within assigned care areas to assure drug utilization activities are aligned with patient care needs, evidence-based best practices, hospital guidelines, and regulatory standards

Design and implement new pharmacy programs, quality improvement changes, and continuous quality assurance initiatives to advance the organization’s medication-use systems and promote optimal patient outcomes

Design and implement stewardship activities and restriction/surveillance programs

Track and evaluate assigned pharmacy programs for operational, quality, and financial efficiency and routinely benchmark against local and national best practices

Develop strategies to optimize medication utilization, including but not limited to clinical guidelines, disease-specific pathways, formulary management, and medication-use policies

Provide departmental and institutional leadership for committees/meetings, hospital group/task forces, and approved external programs/organizations

Assure pharmacy is an integral part of the health-care delivery system and facilitates enhancement and expansion of pharmacy services/programs

Deliver direct patient-care and clinical practice, including decentralized and service-based programs:

Maintain proficiency in decentralized pharmacy services and clinical pharmacy programs

Place practice priority on the delivery of patient-centered care

Work as an active member of multidisciplinary team and collaborate with healthcare personnel within care areas

Establish collaborative pharmacist-patient relationships

Maintain patient information and interpret patients’ health care needs including patient problem lists and prioritized pharmacist interventions

Collect and document accurate patient medication histories and reconcile discrepancies

Identify high-risk patients and implement interventions to improve care quality and safety

Make appropriate evidence-based, patient-centered medication recommendations

Implement, evaluate, and redesign pharmaceutical care plans based on patient progress and evolving goals for medication usage, including drug dosing and monitoring

Provide written documentation in the patient’s medical record when requested

Obtain and maintain ACLS and BLS certification

Clinical Pharmacist - Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant MGH

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