Pharmacy Coordinator Emergency Medicine and Transitions of Care

Flushing Hospital Medical Center is a 293-bed, not-for-profit teaching hospital. The hospital offers a variety of services for a culturally diverse community, including Bariatric Surgical Service, Ambulatory Care Center, Women’s Health Center, Wound Care Center, and Chemical Dependence Unit. Our busy on-site full-service pharmacy provides prescription services to discharged, emergency department, and clinic patients as well as employees. We are currently seeking an experienced Pharmacy Coordinator for an immediate full-time evening shift.

The ED/TOC Pharmacist is responsible for involvement in the clinical aspects of pharmaceutical patient care including interaction with patients, families, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers. As a key member of the treatment team, the Pharmacist will optimize medication therapy management to improve clinical, economic and humanistic outcomes. Activities will encompass participation in: admission medication reconciliation, discharge medication reconciliation, patient counseling/teaching and multidisciplinary care planning.

• Understand emergency drugs and thrombolytic therapy (including continuous infusion, normal dilution, dose and monitoring during infusion).
• Conducts Comprehensive Medication Reviews, and Targeted Interventions to assess appropriateness of all medications including dose and drug regimen to optimize medication therapy and improve clinical outcomes.
• Consults with the prescriber, the interdisciplinary care team, the patient and/or caregiver to identify/develop patient specific disease state therapy goals.
• Provides interdisciplinary support and collaboration; communicates and documents clinical recommendations/interventions to prescribers and the interdisciplinary care team.
• Provides and follows up on recommended interventions with prescribers, interdisciplinary care team, other pharmacists, patients and/or caregivers, including appropriate documentation of recommendations and interventions.
• Performing accurate and comprehensive medication reconciliation process, implementing and operating of an evidence-based medication reconciliation system that optimizes available resources, and promoting of medication reconciliation as a focus of performance-improvement activities.
• Obtaining preadmission medication history, obtaining relevant patient information from outpatient pharmacies and health care providers, and documenting the compiled medication list, using multiple available sources, and patient’s interview; thoroughly analyzing possible drug interactions, evaluating patient’s compliance and any medications adherence barriers.
• Follows up with pharmacies, nursing homes, family members, or others as needed to obtain complete medication history information.
• Coordinates medication reconciliation across the continuum of care and monitoring to improve clinical outcomes and to help prevent unnecessary readmissions, lapses in care and adverse drug reactions.
• Summarizing all gathered info in a clinical notes and able to express yourself clear in professional writing.
• Overseeing PGY1 pharmacy resident’s daily medication reconciliation process and serve as a clinical preceptor.
• To be able to effectively communicate with the residents, providing constructive feedback and process improvement suggestions.
• Collects and compiles data, statistics and other information needed for quality assurance programs or reports to provide information to assist with decision-making.
• Effectively communicating with health care providers informing and discussing potential drug related issues that require provider attention.
• Provide drug information to physicians, nurses, and patients.
• Performs as a Pharmacy Manager to oversee and provide support to the pharmacy staff for Pharmacy operational and patient care related matters.