VA Careers - Pharmacy: https://youtube.com/embed/Fn_ickNBEws
Duties may include, but are not limited to:
GS-11 Experience
- The Pharmacist recommends appropriate selection of drug therapy based upon the pharmaceutical principles of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, monitoring for efficacy, side effects and clinical outcome; and after review with a Clinical Pharmacist, advises prescribers as appropriate.
- In conjunction with Clinical Pharmacist review, provides patient-specific therapeutic drug monitoring and communicates relevant findings and/or recommendation is to other health care providers in charge of the patient both orally and in writing. Monitoring will include prospective review and intervention in:
a) Therapeutic appropriateness of a patient's drug regimen
b) Therapeutic duplication in the patient's drug regimen
c) Appropriateness of the route and method of administration
d) Degree of Patient compliance with the prescribed drug regimen
e) Drug-drug, drug-food, drug-laboratory, or drug disease interactions
f) Clinical and pharmacokinetic laboratory data to evaluate the efficacy of
drug therapy and to anticipate side effects, toxicity, or adverse effects
g) Physical signs and clinical symptoms relevant to the patient's
drug therapy
- Performs continuous evaluation of prescribed medications to assure optimal drug therapy.
- Provides medication counseling to patients.
- In conjunction with a Clinical Pharmacist, serves as a drug information resource by providing up-to-date drug information to prescribers, other health care professionals, patients and caregivers.
- Reports adverse drug events (ADE), near misses, and medication errors in alignment with VA ADERS reporting program.
- Recommends formulary alternatives as appropriate.
- In conjunction with a Clinical Pharmacist, provides pharmacokinetic consultation, including dosing vancomycin and aminoglycosides, in accordance with local policy.
- Participates in quality assurance programs through submission of medication errors.
GS-12 Experience - Adds drugs and supply items to the drug file as needed.
- Maintain barcoding accuracy for all automation systems.
- Responds to pharmacy and nursing concerns related to BCMA.
- Works with pharmacy staff to trouble shoot automation system errors.
- Works with pharmacy staff to assist with and ensures routine maintenance on automation systems within pharmacy services occurs scheduled or as needed.
- Routinely reviews par levels in automated dispensing cabinets to ensure appropriate stocking and mitigate stock-outs.
- Works with Automation Dispensing Machine Pharmacy Technicians to ensure medications are appropriately stocked in outpatient clinic locations per PBM approvals.
- Assist with medication addition request to automated dispensing machines for inpatient and outpatient use (to include CBOCs). Highlighting in the process if medication request is a high alert medication and ensuring appropriate transportation of high alert medication is followed.
- Takes ownership to ensure contingencies are in place for routine and scheduled power and system outages that impact pharmacy automation equipment to include medication storage refrigerators.
- Assist with monitoring the facility temperature monitoring system, and addressing any temperature excursions per policy.
- Assist with reviewing discrepancy, override, and null transaction reports for automated dispensing machine and addresses issues with area nurse managers and pharmacy supervisors as required by local policy.
- Assist with adding and removing users into the Automated Dispensing Machines per policy.
- Reviews and updates all policies related to Automated System Support as needed and/or before policies are due for recertification to ensure all polices related to automated medication systems stay in date and accurate.
- Ensure high alert medications are labeled and stored appropriately and securely in automated dispensing machines in the pharmacy and throughout the medical facility.
- Assist in High Alert Medication review assessments.
- Collaborates with nursing services to review ongoing needs/request for additional medication/doses to the smart pump library for presentation to the facility PBM committee for review.
- Evaluates on an ongoing basis the need for additional automated dispensing equipment or enhancements to existing automated dispensing machines, refrigerators, printers, scanners or software.
Work Schedule: Rotating schedule To Include but not limited to: 7:00AM-3:30PM, 7:30AM-4:00PM, 8:00AM-4:30PM, 10:00AM-6:30PM, 11:00AM-7:30PM, 1:30PM-10:00PM, 2:30PM-11:00PM. Employees may be required to work days, evenings, nights, weekends, holidays and/or compressed, tours on a rotating schedule. The hours may vary per the needs of the service and will rotate.
Telework: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 534-5702F
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Available
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Available
Starting at $115,519 Per Year (GS 00)