Travel Pharmacist
Visalia, California
Kaweah Delta Health Care District

Pharmacist-Clinical

Overview

• Travel/Contract role in Visalia, California
• 40 hours per week
• 10-hour shifts
• Start date: 9/21

Required Qualifications

• Valid Clinical Pharmacist license in California
• Doctor of Pharmacy degree
• Clinical Pharmacist experience within the last year
• Clinical Pharmacist (3 years of experience)
• 1 year or more of total travel experience
• Experience in a Hospital setting
• Experience in an Outpatient setting
• Experience in an Ambulatory Care setting

Preferred Qualifications

• Emergency Medicine or Emergency Medicine Mid-shift Pharmacist Specialist: completion of a pharmacy residency program in Emergency Medicine
• Infectious Disease Specialist: completion of a pharmacy residency program in Infectious Diseases
• Anemia Management Specialist: hospital or Ambulatory Care based anemia management experience
• Home Infusion: completion of a residency program in home infusion pharmacy
• Critical Care Medicine Pharmacist Specialist: completion of a pharmacy residency program in Critical Care
• Ambulatory Care Pharmacist Specialist: completion of a pharmacy residency program in Ambulatory Care or General Practice with strong Ambulatory Care experience and certification, or eligibility to sit for certification exam
• Family Medicine Pharmacist Specialist: PGY-1 General Practice and PGY-2 Ambulatory Care and BCPS, BCACP, and/or CGP with at least 1 year of clinical practice in an academic healthcare institution with interprofessional care teams
• Outpatient Oncology Pharmacist Specialist: completion of pharmacy residency in Oncology

Specialty / Assignment Areas

• Inpatient and outpatient pharmacy coverage
• Possible specialty assignments include Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine Mid-shift, Oncology, Infectious Disease, Anemia Management, Pain Management, Critical Care, and NICU/Pediatrics
• Possible additional assignments include Formulary Management, Compounding, Ambulatory Care, and Family Medicine
• Home Infusion and Outpatient Oncology Infusion Center responsibilities may apply if assigned

Key Responsibilities

• Reviews, validates, and dispenses medications and related orders
• Consults with other healthcare providers to optimize therapy and medication safety
• Responds to medication-related questions from physicians and staff
• Performs or supervises compounding and quality review of compounded medications
• Provides medication reconciliation, medication education, and care coordination when assigned
• Monitors medication and nutritional therapies and documents interventions
• Provides patient-specific dosing and monitoring information in outpatient settings
• May respond to emergency alerts such as Code Blue, Code White, Code Sepsis, Code Stroke, and Cardiac Alert
• May provide home infusion support, including patient deliveries and after-hours on-call coverage
• May provide outpatient oncology pharmacotherapy reviews, documentation, and formulary-related support
• May provide ambulatory care and family medicine consultative and direct patient care services with prescriptive authority via collaborative practice agreements

Notes

• Uses PYXIS units on nursing units
• EMR familiarity is mentioned for outpatient oncology documentation
• References required: 2 professional references verifying most recent experience in the last 24 months