Pharmacist EH - Supplemental

Overview: As a **Pharmacist**, you are the trusted expert patients rely on to understand their medications and use them safely and effectively. You help make life better by ensuring patients are informed and confident in their drug therapy—playing a vital role in their overall care and well\-being. If you’re a pharmacist who understands the importance of your role in patient outcomes and values compassionate, high\-quality care, you may be an ideal fit for this opportunity within the Legacy community. Responsibilities: **CLINICAL COMPETENCE****:** Optimal patient care outcomes from drug therapy are ensured through clinical pharmacy services. Such services are age appropriate, for neonates, pediatric patients, adolescents, adults and geriatric patients, performed when needed through direct contact with the patient, and in direct association with or in support of health care providers.* Pharmacist will demonstrate clinical competence as required by program needs * Therapeutic Drug monitoring: Drug therapy monitoring includes an age appropriate assessment of: + Therapeutic appropriateness + Therapeutic duplication + Appropriate route of administration + Patient compliance + Drug\-drug, drug\-food, drug\-laboratory, or drug\-disease interactions. + Clinical and pharmacokinetic laboratory data to evaluate efficacy of drug therapy and anticipate side effects, toxicity, or adverse effects. + Physical signs and symptoms relevant to the patients; drug therapy. * Provides oral and written consultations on request with other health care practitioners regarding drug therapy selection and management. * Administers medical\-staff approved collaborative drug therapy protocols * Provides age and educationally appropriate patient education and counseling on request regarding drug therapy and drug\-related disease prevention * Develops patient\-specific, age appropriate, drug therapy management plans and therapy endpoints * Documents medication\-related care in patient’s me