Clinical Informatics Pharmacist in Lompoc, California at Lompoc Valley Medical Center

Salary Range: $64.86 - $89.42

Pay rates are determined based on experience and internal equity.

Position Summary:

• Responsible for optimizing the electronic health record (EHR), computerized provider order entry (CPOE), clinical decision support (CDS), automated dispensing cabinets, barcode medication administration (BCMA), smart infusion pumps, and pharmacy information systems to improve patient safety, regulatory compliance, workflow efficiency, and medication stewardship.
• Serves as a subject matter expert for medication-related clinical information systems.
• Responsible for the evaluation and direction of patient pharmacotherapy.
• Serves as a clinical/expert resource to members of the medical and allied health staff.
• Assists with the supervision of all stages of medication accountability.
• Assists with Pharmacy Services operations for the District.
• Must work well under stress or tight deadlines.
• Must work well with supervisors, co-workers, patients/residents, family members and visitors.

District Responsibility:

• Support of the District Mission and Values
• Demonstrate Respect, Professionalism and Courtesy to all patients, visitors, other providers and coworkers, as delineated in the LVMC “Commitment to Care”.
• Provision of Pharmaceutical Care
• Leadership of Pharmacy Personnel
• Take part in performance improvement initiatives
• Other responsibilities as assigned

Position Duties/Responsibility:

• Build, maintain, and optimize medication-related content within the EHR.
• Develop and maintain medication order sets, formularies, dosing protocols, and clinical decision support.
• Optimize BCMA, CPOE, infusion workflows, and smart pump library.
• Improve medication safety through technology optimization. Review medication events and implement system improvements.
• Maintain renal dosing, IV-to-PO conversion, therapeutic interchange, duplicate therapy, allergy, interaction, antimicrobial stewardship, sepsis, anticoagulation, and high-risk medication alerts.
• Lead pharmacy technology implementations, upgrades, testing, education, go-live support, and optimization.
• Provides training and in-services for members of nursing, medical and allied health staff.
• Ensure compliance with CMS, Joint Commission, CDPH, DEA, FDA, and USP standards.
• Administers, directs and coordinates the pharmaceutical care (clinical pharmacy) needs of patients, physicians and staff in the acute hospital.
• Participate in clinical staffing, verification, medication reconciliation, code response, and operational coverage as assigned.
• Other duties as assigned.

Essential Functions:

• Provide pharmaceutical care.
• Provide leadership to other department personnel.
• The ability to supervise.
• The ability to give and take direction.
• The ability to manage time and prioritize tasks.
• The ability to stand and ambulate over prolonged periods.
• The ability to read fine print on packages/package inserts.
• Manual dexterity to prepare IV admixtures, unit dose packaging.
• The ability to lift medium loads frequently.
• The ability to type at a reasonable speed.
• The ability to carry out discretionary tasks with minimal supervision.
• A functional grasp of basic mathematical and advanced arithmetic and algebraic principles.
• The ability to use a step ladder to reach stored objects.
• The ability to work as a member of a team.
• The ability to have positive personal interactions with staff, patients/residents and visitors.

Position Qualifications:

• Education: Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an accredited School of Pharmacy (or BSPharm with appropriate experience) with current California license.
• Experience: 3 years of acute care pharmacy experience, with strong EHR and medication-use systems knowledge
• Preferred experience: PGY1 or PGY2 Informatics Residency, Board Certification, experience with Altera SCM, Pyxis ES, BCMA, smart pumps, SQL, Power BI, HL7, and 340B software.
• Skills/Abilities:
  • Comprehensive knowledge of medication selection, administration and delivery for patients of all ages.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to organize work assignments and follow through with accuracy.
  • Exercise good judgement.
  • Demonstrate initiative, emotional stability, tact and poise.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills.
  • Proficient with computer applications.
• LVMC reserves the right to modify the minimum requirements depending on the needs of the organization.