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Be a part of a world-class academic healthcare system, UChicago Medicine , as a Clinical Pharmacist Specialist in Inpatient Cardiology. Clinical Pharmacist Specialists will assume responsibility and accountability for the provision of safe, effective, and prompt medication therapy. Responsibilities include direct patient care for general cardiology and cardiac surgery inpatient services, including daily patient care rounds, patient education, and facilitating transitions of care. Furthermore, the clinical pharmacist will also be an active contributor to the cardiology area by working to develop policies, procedures, guidelines and protocols. Participation in the training and education of UChicago’s large pharmacy residency program, Chicagoland pharmacy students, as well as internal medicine physician residency program is expected. Research and quality improvement are high priority activities for the clinical pharmacy team. In this role, the Clinical Pharmacist Specialist will collaborate with pharmacy and interdisciplinary colleagues to accomplish patient-centered goals.
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Job Summary
Through various assignments within the department, the Clinical Pharmacy Specialist provides support of centralized and decentralized medication-use systems and delivers optimal medication therapy to patients with a broad range of disease states. Clinical Pharmacist Specialists are able to participate in all necessary aspects of the medication-use system while providing comprehensive and individualized pharmaceutical care to the patients in their assigned areas. 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 Pharmacist Specialists serve as departmental resources and liaisons to other departments, hospital personnel, or external groups. They proficiently manage and facilitate the appropriate use of medications according to professional and regulatory standards. They also conduct clinical research and practice advancement projects as well as patient care quality and regulatory compliance initiatives designed to improve medication-use processes or pharmacy practice. Clinical Pharmacist Specialists provide medication and practice-related education/training and actively serve as preceptors for doctor of pharmacy students and pharmacy residents.
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In this role, we anticipate that you will generally work approximately 40 hours per week. We anticipate you will be scheduled to work 100% at the Hyde Park campus. The days of the week that you are scheduled will be Monday-Friday, and a rotating weekend schedule.
Must comply with UCMC’s COVID-19 Vaccination requirement as a condition of employment. If you have already received the vaccination, you must provide proof as part of the pre-employment process. This is in addition to your compliance with the Flu Vaccination requirement as well. Medical and religious exemptions will be considered consistent with applicable law. Lastly, a pre-employment physical, drug screening, and background check are also required for all employees prior to hire.
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