Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator Pediatrics/Neonates

The Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator Pediatrics and Neonates will be part of a pharmacy team that cares for pediatric patients in the general pediatric unit, and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

Duties include:

• Practice with other members of the patient care team and focus on the needs of patients.
• Regularly make rounds as a member of the multidisciplinary patient care team to optimize pharmacotherapeutic managements of patients.
• Prospectively evaluate and document all drug therapy for appropriate indications, dosage, drug interactions, and drug allergies; monitors the patients’ pharmacotherapeutic regimen for effectiveness and ADEs; and intervenes as needed.
• Identify ADEs and assists in their management and prevention, and develops process improvements to reduce drug errors and preventable ADEs.
• Provide drug information to the patient care team.
• Provide drug therapy related education to healthcare team.
• Provide didactic lectures to health professional residents and students in pharmacology and therapeutics, where applicable.
• Perform drug utilization review.