Calvary Hospital
Pharmacist, Palliative Care
The Bronx, New York, United States
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 329 days ago
Pharmacy PracticePatient CareCollaborationMentoringPublic Speaking
About the role
- Ensure compliance with practice standards and codes Job Responsibilities: 1.
- Function as a core clinical team member of the Calvary interdisciplinary team.
- Assist with patient care for palliative care patients as included below: a.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate in determining and discussing appropriate patient centered goals of care. f.
- Recommend appropriate use of medications to support goals of care as allowable according to regulation and institutional policy. g.
- Document patient care activities in a manner consistent with hospital standards. j.
- Recommend and implement risk mitigation strategies and monitoring to optimize safe and effective use of medications.
Requirements
- Maintains in-patient records, computerized and manually as required 17.
Nice to have
- Review medication histories and assess the appropriateness of current medications. b.
- Review medications for potential or actual drug related problems, including but not limited to drug-disease interactions and/or adverse drug events. c.
- Order, interpret and evaluate appropriate imaging, diagnostics, and laboratory data, including but not limited to pharmacogenetic testing, as appropriate according to regulation and policy. d.
- Assess disease states, symptoms, and patient and family needs. e.
- Monitor therapy relative to pain and other symptom management. h.
- Recognize the need for collaboration with other disciplines and refer as appropriate to relieve suffering.
- Provide cross-training for other team members in pharmacotherapeutic concepts related to palliative care and receive cross-training from other disciplines.
- Ensure that patients and caregivers understand and follow the directions relative to medication use.
Benefits
- Provide education to patients and families regarding the use of both pharmacologic and non- pharmacologic interventions i.
- Engage in both didactic and experiential interprofessional palliative education.
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