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Hours: Rotating Shifts

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  

• medication event/adverse reaction reporting 

• clinical guideline development/disease management 

• 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. 

 
Required Minimum License(s) and Certification(s): 

All certifications are required upon hire unless otherwise stated. 

• (Required) Reg Pharmacist: Active pharmacy license in the state of Georgia by time of employment 

• (Preferred) PGY1 and/or PGY2 residency in critical care or emergency medicine

Required Minimum Experience: 

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 

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