Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Augusta
Wellstar Health System
Summary
The emergency medicine pharmacist is responsible for appropriate, evidence-based, medication use for the institution, focusing on our emergency department. The shifts will largely be daytime or evening in rotation with the EM group. They will work to ensure medication therapy needs are met for patients in the ED areas as well as assist with transitions of care from the emergency department to the inpatient floors or the ICU.
Job description
Job Summary
The emergency medicine pharmacist is responsible for appropriate, evidence-based, medication use for the institution, focusing on our emergency department. The shifts will largely be daytime or evening in rotation with the EM group. They will work to ensure medication therapy needs are met for patients in the ED areas as well as assist with transitions of care from the emergency department to the inpatient floors or the ICU.
Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions
- Provides clinical pharmaceutical care to and verifies orders for adult ED patients
- Prevents, detects, and resolves medication-related problems and makes appropriate evidence-based, patient-centered medication therapy recommendations as an effective member of interdisciplinary adult critical care team(s)
- Provides effective medication education to patients, families, and interdisciplinary teams
- Actively participates in the development and implementation of performance/quality improvement and patient safety initiatives
- Participates in medication event/adverse reaction reporting
- Participates in clinical guideline development/disease management
- Participates in medication use evaluation/improvement with consideration of cost containment
- Demonstrates proficiency, quality, safety, and efficiency in pharmacy distributive services
- Supports interdisciplinary education and professional development of the Pharmacy Department
- Has opportunities to precept pharmacy residents and pharmacy students
- Completes medical center/pharmacy competency requirements by deadlines
- Complies with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct
Requirements
- Active pharmacy license in the state of Georgia by time of employment
- Minimum 2 years practicing as a critical care or EM pharmacist (or equivalent residency experience)
- Preferred PGY1 and/or PGY2 residency in critical care or emergency medicine
Company overview
Wellstar Health System is one of Georgia's largest and most comprehensive integrated healthcare systems, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Marietta, Georgia. As a non-profit health system, Wellstar operates with a mission to enhance the health and well-being of every person it serves through its PeopleCare approach. The system employs approximately 29,469 to 33,000 team members across multiple hospitals, health parks, medical offices, outpatient centers, pediatric centers, nursing facilities, and hospice and home care services. Wellstar is nationally recognized for operating Georgia's largest integrated trauma network and features the second-largest Emergency Department in the United States. The organization provides more than $1 billion annually in charity care and community programs, demonstrating its commitment to community health. Wellstar has earned numerous accolades including recognition on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, Best Workplaces in Health Care, and PEOPLE Companies that Care lists. The system embraces innovation through its venture firm Catalyst by Wellstar, which nurtures early-stage healthcare companies, and maintains academic partnerships with institutions like the Medical College of Georgia for caregiver training. With specialties spanning cardiovascular care, oncology, women's health, pediatrics, musculoskeletal services, and numerous other medical disciplines, Wellstar delivers comprehensive healthcare across all stages of life.