Job Details
The Jefferson Home Infusion Patient Care Pharmacist (Clinical Pharmacist) provides high quality infusion therapy and clinical services to patients receiving care in their home. This includes an initial patient assessment, determining therapy appropriateness, developing an individualized plan of care, monitoring therapy/response, making recommendations and oversight of the preparation, distribution and administration of medications.
Educates internal and external customers including patients, caregivers, prescribers, nurses, technicians, other pharmacists and students.
Job Description
Essential Functions
- Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
- Promotes safe and rational infusion therapy for patients based on orders from a prescriber.
- Works collaboratively to assure patient and caregivers understand and become independent with their plan of care. Adjusts the care plan based on patient response, interventions and prescriber orders.
- Typical infusion therapies include antimicrobial, TPN, hydration, pain management, chemotherapy, inotrope, immunotherapy, monoclonal antibody, corticosteroid, gastrointestinal agents, clotting factors, etc.
- Monitors drug therapy, assesses patient response, drug interactions, side effects, toxicity and interprets lab results.
- Enters home infusion orders and documentation, assures the patient file tells the story of the treatment course, problems, goals, interventions, response and outcome.
- Maintains relationships with medical, nursing, social and other services involved in the care of patients at home. Advises prescribers, nurses and other staff regarding medication administration, monitoring of drug therapy and disease states.
- Contributes to multidisciplinary team committees, development of policies and drug administration guidelines, pharmacy student preceptorship and various other projects.
- Participates in the On Call pharmacist role.
- Performs other related duties as assigned by supervisory personnel.
Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required):
- Provides care that is appropriate to the specific chronological age, developmental age, social maturity and cultural background of the patients being treated or serviced.
- Demonstrates the ability to navigate appropriate and necessary software systems unique to the position and department
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral or schedule form.
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:
Education:
- Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy required. Doctor of Pharmacy preferred.
Experience:
- Home infusion experience preferred but not required.
Minimum Certifications, Registration or License Requirements:
- Pharmacy License in the state of PA.
- Valid Driver’s License required.
Work Shift
Workday Day (United States of America)
Worker Sub Type
Regular
Employee Entity
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc.
Primary Location Address
3500 Horizon Drive, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.
Benefits
Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.
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