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Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a Critical Care Pharmacist at Memorial Health University Medical Center in historic Savannah, GA. We are looking for a Critical Care Pharmacist to cover the Neurovascular Intensive Care Unit.
The Neurovascular ICU at MHUMC is an 18-bed intensive care unit for adult patients with acute, non-traumatic illnesses and injuries to the head and spinal cord. Common disease states/patient populations include acute ischemic stroke, spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage, aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral edema and intracranial pressure management, ventriculitis/meningitis, encephalitis, status epilepticus, sodium disorders, brain tumors, etc. Common interventions include mechanical thrombectomy, intracranial stenting, craniotomy/craniectomy, aneurysmal coiling and clipping, ventriculostomy and other neurosurgical drain placements, tumor resection, continuous EEG monitoring, laminectomy and decompression, and transsphenoidal adenoma resection. There is no single team that manages all patients in the neurovascular ICU and predominantly includes pulmonary critical care medicine, neurosurgery, neurology, and trauma/surgical critical care. To maintain continuity of care with the various services/consults, one of the pharmacist’s main roles is active participation in multidisciplinary rounds daily with the pulmonary critical care medicine service. Multidisciplinary rounds consist of an intensivist, advanced practice provider (NP or PA), pharmacist, respiratory therapist, dietician, case manager, bedside nurse, nurse manager or charge nurse, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) physician.
The Critical Care Pharmacist provides pharmaceutical care including computer order entry, drug distribution, evaluation of medication orders for appropriateness of drug, dose, frequency and adequacy of monitoring, evaluation of drug interactions and allergies and therapeutic monitoring of drugs to patients across our adult ICUs. Our pharmacists are valued members of daily multidisciplinary rounds in the ICUs.
What you will do in this role:
· Actively participate in multidisciplinary team rounds and teaching rounds to make pharmacotherapy recommendations
· Coordinate drug distribution activities in areas under their supervision. Includes supervision of pharmacy technicians, order verification of medication orders, resolution of medication related problems and preparation of parenteral products
· You will perform pharmacy clinical activities including but not limited to providing pharmacokinetic consults, monitoring targeted drugs, antimicrobial therapy recommendations, and evaluating appropriateness of drug therapy based on, disease state, host factors, and cost effectiveness.
· Serve as a source of drug information to medical and nursing staffs.
· Perform patient care unit inspections as required to meet regulatory requirements.
· Work to minimize errors in the medication use process by utilizing S.T.A.R. (Stop, Think, Act and Review) and other error prevention techniques, especially when dealing with a situation that is out of policy, procedure, or plan, or any other high-risk situation. Strictly follow special handling procedures related to high-risk, high-alert medications and patient populations.
What qualifications you will need:
• Clear and active Georgia pharmacist license
•Graduate of ACPE-accredited School of Pharmacy is required; PharmD degree is preferred
• PGY-2 in Critical Care and/or extensive critical care experience with Board Certification
Memorial Health University Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
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Memorial Health University Medical Center has provided quality healthcare services since 1955, giving patients access to highly-trained physicians and advanced technology. Our 700+ bed teaching hospital is one of the region's leading acute care facilities that serves 35 counties across southeast Georgia and southern South Carolina. Located in Savannah, Georgia, we are a regional referral center for comprehensive stroke care, heart care, cancer care, trauma care, children's care, high-risk pregnancies and high-risk newborn care. Our hospital includes the region's only Level I trauma center and children's hospital, as well as the Savannah campus of Mercer University School of Medicine.
At Memorial Health, our care like family culture extends to our patients, our people and our community. We are committed to each other because when we join together, our patients are cared for in the safest and most compassionate way.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
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HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
We are a family 270,000 dedicated professionals! Our Talent Acquisition team is reviewing applications for our Pharmacist opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submit your resume today to join our community of caring!
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At its founding in 1968, Nashville-based HCA was one of the nation's first hospital companies. Today, we are the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, a company comprised of locally managed facilities that includes about 165 hospitals and 115 freestanding surgery centers in 20 states and England and employing approximately 204,000 people. Approximately four to five percent of all inpatient care delivered in the country today is provided by HCA facilities. Richard M. Bracken serves as Chairman of HCA and R. Milton Johnson is the company's President and Chief Executive Officer.
HCA is committed to the care and improvement of human life and strives to deliver high quality, cost effective healthcare in the communities we serve. Building on the foundation provided by our Mission & Values, HCA puts patients first and works to constantly improve the care we give them by implementing measures that support our caregivers, help ensure patient safety and provide the highest possible quality. Investing in our communities is important to us. HCA typically invests about $1.5 billion annually to keep our facilities modern and up-to-date technologically and to expand and add services where needed. Focusing primarily on communities where the company is a leading healthcare provider, HCA selectively adds new facilities in order to better serve our communities.
And because two HCA founders were physicians, we value highly the strong relationships we've created with local physicians. We endeavor to provide them with a wide array of services and modern facilities in order to help them deliver the best possible care.