Job DescriptionCentral to all that California has to offer, Adventist Health Bakersfield has been providing an extraordinary team of world-class physicians, top-notch medical technology, caring professionals and award-winning quality since 1910. We are comprised of a 254-bed acute care hospital and 20 primary and specialty care medical offices. As one of America's fastest growing cities, Bakersfield offers affordable housing on the West Coast, beautiful weather, high-quality education and it is just a few hours away from Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks, the Central California Coast and Southern California's great sports, theaters, concerts and amusement parks. Job Summary: Supervises and coordinates all activities related to medication management and medication safety. Formulates policies and institutes models that promote medication safety in all aspects of the medication management process. Serves as a liaison to hospital pharmacy, regulatory compliance, performance improvement, nursing, and medical staff leadership personnel. Supervises and directs the activities of various levels of assigned personnel using both professional and supervisory discretion and independent judgment. Job Requirements:Education and Work Experience:
- Graduate of school of pharmacy: Required
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education/related experience: Required
- Doctorate of Pharmacy (PharmD): Preferred
- Five years' pharmacy experience: Preferred
- One year's leadership experience: Preferred
Licenses/Certifications:
- Pharmacist license in the state of practice: Required
- Registered Pharmacist (RPH): Required
Essential Functions:
- Monitors and updates compliance to medication control, safety, and security standards in the Pharmacy and patient care areas, and serves as a resource to all disciplines. Facilitate and implement changes as needed to all regulatory, accrediting, licensing and government agency standards and laws. Oversees purchasing and contract-related activities for pharmaceuticals. Monitors drug recalls, drug shortages, and allocation processes from vendors to ensure that information is effectively communicated to clinicians. Ensures that substitute products do not produce medication safety risks.
- Identifies and assists in the implementation and execution of best practices for medication safety. Analyzes current multi-discipline practices that contribute to medication errors and appropriately institutes steps to achieve measurable significant error prevention using a proprietary database. Facilitates both process and system changes to reduce the probability error of incidence and frequency. Supervises and directs the activities of various levels of assigned ancillary personnel.
- Functions as a project manager to facilitate, prioritize, and advocate patient safety initiatives. Oversees the designing and implementing of systems and processes that enhance medication safety. Determines and designs the analytical framework for safety initiatives. Evaluates and executes metrics for project outcomes. Provides routine updates to project sponsors and stakeholders.
- Analyzes facility reporting systems to determine their efficacy of adverse drug event capture, timeliness of reporting, and utility of information captured. Formulates recommendations for modifications in the reporting system, standardizing and refining analytical and reporting processes. Investigates technology and automated solutions. Creates a system-wide reporting policy for adverse drug events that applies standardized definitions.
- Ensures that all performance improvement initiatives and evaluations are completed in a timely manner. Formulates, prepares, and presents educational sessions for nurses, pharmacists, physicians, and allied health professionals based on relevant journals, responses to corrective action plans, and recommendations from committee activities. Participates in the facility-based root cause analysis investigations. Assesses systems and applies process change recommendations on an institution-wide level to determine the existence of medication safety risks as well as opportunities for improvement. Engineers and implement plans for application of recommendations and increase awareness of the event-related risks.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
Organizational Requirements: Adventist Health is committed to the safety and wellbeing of our associates and patients. Therefore, we require that all associates receive all required vaccinations, including, but not limited to, measles, mumps, flu (based on the seasonal availability of the flu vaccine typically during October-March each year), COVID-19 vaccine (required in CA, HI and OR) etc., as a condition of employment, and annually thereafter. Medical and religious exemptions may apply.About UsAdventist Health is a faith-based, nonprofit, integrated health system serving more than 90 communities on the West Coast and Hawaii with over 400 sites of care, including 26 acute care facilities, clinics, home care, and hospice agencies in both rural and urban communities. Our compassionate and talented team of 37,000 includes employees, physicians and volunteers driven in pursuit of one mission: living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.