Job DescriptionThe Ambulatory Care - Primary Care/Pain Management Clinical Pharmacist at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Network
The Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist is an Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner who collaborates with a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive medication management for patients in primary care setting.
The pharmacist collaborates with primary care physicians, pain management physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, and specialty pharmacy teams to optimize pharmacotherapy, improve patient outcomes, ensuring patient safety and the highest quality of care is delivered.
- Provides comprehensive medication management for ambulatory patients including medication reconciliation, therapy monitoring, and pharmacotherapy optimization.
- Evaluates drug therapies and develops individualized pharmacotherapy plans for patients with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, those on anticoagulation therapy, those on chronic opioid therapy and/or benzodiazepine therapy.
- Provides Smoking Cessation education and medication management.
- Initiates, titrates, and adjusts medications under collaborative practice agreements and approved clinical protocols following updated clinical guidelines, such as those from the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA), American Diabetes Association (ADA), American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST), CDC Opioid and Benzodiazepine Medication Prescribing Guidelines.
- Orders, reviews, and interprets laboratory tests and monitoring parameters necessary for safe and effective medication therapy management.
- Monitors medication adherence, therapeutic response, and patient outcomes.
- Identifies, resolves, and prevents medication-related problems including adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, untreated indications, and inappropriate drug selection.
- Provides therapeutic recommendations and answers medication and patient-related questions from other healthcare providers.
- Provides patients' and other healthcare providers with education on medication use, side effects, and drug interactions when appropriate.
- Supports the process of completing medication prior authorizations as needed.
- Documents patient encounters, pharmacotherapy interventions, and therapeutic outcomes in the electronic health record.
- Assists in development and maintenance of clinical pathways, best practices, protocols, competency assessments.
- Supports ambulatory clinical pharmacy billing activities where applicable including documentation supporting incident-to or other pharmacist clinical service reimbursement models.
- Assures ongoing performance improvement of the pharmaceutical care services provided.
- Precepts pharmacy residents and students in ambulatory clinical pharmacy practice.
Responsibilities- Provides therapeutic recommendations and answers medication and patient-related questions from other healthcare providers.
- Identifies, resolves, and prevents potential and actual medication-related problems including untreated indications, improper drug selection, sub-therapeutic dosage, overdosage, failure to receive medication, adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, and medications without indication.
- Provides patients' and other healthcare providers with education on medication use, side effects, and drug interactions when appropriate.
- Communicates with physicians and pharmacists to recommend changes in medication therapy to optimize patient outcomes (i.e. labs not at goal, discontinuation of medication).
- Supports the process of completing medication prior authorizations as needed.
- Documents of patient progress and outcomes for future reporting.
- Assures ongoing performance improvement of the pharmaceutical care services provided.
- Provides physician education through presentations and "Pharmacy Hot Topics" CSMG internal monthly newsletter.
- Trains pharmacy residents and students rotating through CSMG.
- Participates in meetings within the department.
QualificationsEducational Requirements:- Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) from an accredited school of pharmacy.
Licenses/Certifications:- Pharmacist license in the State of California.
- Professional certificate in relevant practice area(s) preferred.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
- Eligibility to obtain DEA registration if required.
What Else Are We Looking For?- Completion of PGY1 pharmacy residency or equivalent clinical experience required.
- Eligibility to obtain DEA registration if required.
- Comprehensive knowledge of common disease states, pathologies and ability to apply current pharmacological and biopharmaceutical principles.
- Pain Management experience- preferred
- Completion of PGY2 residency in ambulatory care, pain management, or pharmacotherapy preferred.
- Experience in ambulatory clinical pharmacy practice or outpatient clinic setting preferred.
