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Fred Hutch · 4 days ago

Pharmacy Professional Practice Coordinator

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$157K/yr - $261K/yr

2+ years exp

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. The Pharmacy Professional Practice Coordinator is a senior Pharmacist responsible for providing pharmacotherapeutic recommendations and managing pharmacy practice, education, and research to optimize patient care.

Hospital & Health Care

No H1B

Responsibilities

Implement and maintain departmental policies and procedures related to the safe and effective use of medications

Routinely evaluate current updates in service specific literature

Develop and maintain drug therapy monitoring systems for patients

Establish and maintain efficient lines of communication between pharmacists, physicians, nurses and other members of the health care team

Participate in pharmacy and hospital committees as requested

Participate in the development and implementation of quality assurance programs for pharmacy services, including, but not limited to, prevention of medication errors

Perform drug utilization evaluation and cost containment analyses, as needed Education

Provide primary preceptorship of pharmacy residents and student pharmacists

Provide education to medical/surgical residents, nursing staff and medical students

Present at educational conferences to multidisciplinary staff, as requested

Develop and provide nursing in-services

Provide didactic teaching to student pharmacists at the University of Washington School of Pharmacy, as requested Research

Participate in collaborative research projects with healthcare professionals, pharmacy residents and student pharmacists

Submit unique work for publication in professional journals

May assist in the preparation, review and implementation of drug study protocols

Collaborating with investigators in support of investigational drug studies Clinical May be assigned Senior Pharmacist clinical responsibilities for an assigned patient care area, including:

Collaborate with providers to individualize drug therapies promoting safe, effective and economical patient care

Perform comprehensive medication therapy review and other activities as necessary to ensure safe transitions of care

Assume responsibility for monitoring and modifying the drug regimen when referred, to include the ordering and interpretation of laboratory testing

Provide refill authorization in conjunction with assessment of adherence, disease states, drug interactions, efficacy, and safety

Act as a drug information resource to providers, nursing staff, research staff and patients

Ensure patient access to specialty medications by assisting with providing required clinical information to insurers when needed

Identify patients with indications for drug therapy who are under-treated and optimize drug therapy

Identify barriers to adherence to medication regimen, incorporating patient characteristics i.e. language, culture/religious practices, physical, cognitive, emotional, pain/discomfort, socioeconomic status

Utilize tools in educating the patient on self-management of disease and drug therapy

Review clinic prescribing patterns with clinic staff to design targeted education to promote consistency with UWP guidelines (or other nationally recognized guidelines when needed)

The pharmacist may manage anticoagulation therapy, infectious disease therapy, complementary and alternative therapy, or pain/palliative care for clinic patients under a collaborative drug therapy agreement. Patient care activities include management of all aspects of therapy including initiation, patient education, short term and long term monitoring and management, care transitions, and consults

Qualification

Pharmacy licensePharmD degreePharmacy practice experienceDrug therapy managementPatient educationResearch participationCollaboration

Required

Graduation from accredited school of pharmacy

Two years of experience in pharmacy practice (months spent in the completion of an American Society of Health-System Pharmacists accredited residency training program may substitute month-for-month for the experience)

State of Washington Pharmacy license