Clinical Pharmacist
Job ID:
PH3
Work Location:
Kattamya
Job Summary:
• Ensures the safe and effective use of medications by providing medication order verification while assessing for optimal drug product selection, dosage regimen design, effective administration and drug therapy monitoring services.
• Monitors inpatient drug therapies when appropriate, and works with relating medical staff to ensure the best care possible is being given.
Responsibilities:
• Taking patient medication history
• Prioritize level of care based on critical need.
• Participate in interdisciplinary patient care rounds and communicate and follow up with the clinical team.
• Prevent, detect and resolve medication-related problems to make evidence-based patient-centered medication therapy recommendations.
• Verify patient medication orders for appropriateness and accuracy
• Document critical intervention.
• Provide drug information for patients and all health care team.
• Provide discharge medication teaching upon request.
• Report medication errors and ADRs
• Participate collegially in the development of new programs, services, and practices, educational activities of the clinical pharmacy department, and mentor clinical pharmacy interns.
• Establishes regular meetings with clinical pharmacy manager/chief pharmacist.
• Identify potential technical or patient care issues and work with the clinical pharmacy manager/chief pharmacist to make recommendations to avoid issues.
• Monitor newly added medications upon request.
• Participates and provides consultation to hospital committees, such as
• Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T), clinical team committee, and antibiotic committee when pharmacotherapy issues are discussed.
Qualification:
• Bachelor of Pharmacy, with Post Graduate degree in Clinical Pharmacy.
• One year as Clinical Pharmacist from a reputable hospital.