System Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – OPAT/COpAT

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🔥 17 hours ago

🐎 Kentucky – Remote

🐎 Kentucky – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💊 Pharmacist

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Baptist Health System KY & IN

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1924

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance

Baptist Health System KY & IN is a comprehensive healthcare provider operating in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. It offers a wide range of services such as behavioral health, cancer care, gastroenterology, heart care, imaging and diagnostics, and specialized care for mother and baby, neurology, stroke, orthopedics, and sports medicine. The system provides various types of care including emergency, urgent, and virtual care, and supports digital health through their MyChart app. Baptist Health is committed to community health through outreach programs, education, and research, and emphasizes patient safety and quality care across its numerous locations. It offers extensive career opportunities in healthcare and strives for transparency and patient-centered care.

📋 Description

• Serve as the subject matter expert for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) and complex outpatient antimicrobial therapy (COpAT) services across the health system • Collaborate with antimicrobial stewardship leadership, infectious diseases physicians, ambulatory leadership, care management, infusion services, and interdisciplinary stakeholders • Develop, implement, maintain, and optimize OPAT/COpAT workflows, clinical pathways, documentation standards, monitoring programs, and quality initiatives • Facilitate safe transitions of care for patients discharged on antimicrobial therapy • Review antimicrobial regimens, laboratory monitoring plans, vascular access considerations, culture data, and therapy duration recommendations • Monitor patients for therapeutic effectiveness, adverse drug events, laboratory abnormalities, drug interactions, adherence concerns, and line-related complications • Identify and intervene for antimicrobial-related complications, dosing errors, medication interactions, readmission risk, and therapy failure • Maintain OPAT/COpAT dashboards, quality metrics, operational metrics, and outcome reporting • Support regulatory and accreditation preparedness • Optimize reporting, documentation, Epic order sets, discharge workflows, laboratory monitoring documentation, and clinical decision support tools • Perform antimicrobial regimen reviews and assist with formulary management, medication-use evaluations, quality improvement initiatives, formulary reviews, policies, protocols, and order sets • Provide clinical consultation on outpatient antimicrobial therapy, adverse drug events, laboratory interpretation, vascular access, therapeutic drug monitoring, and transitions of care • Assist with antimicrobial shortage management and therapeutic alternative identification • Coordinate and provide education, presentations, competency assessments, educational materials, and process updates • Precept pharmacy students and residents, as applicable • Participate in local, state, and national professional organizations and initiatives

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy or Doctorate of Pharmacy required • Kentucky Board of Pharmacy and Indiana Board of Pharmacy license, or willing and eligible to achieve within 6 months of hire • Kentucky license must specify that they are a preceptor • Board certified in area of expertise, or able to achieve within 12 months of hire • Board Certified Infectious Diseases Pharmacist (BCIDP) • Completion of PGY-2 ASHP-accredited Pharmacy Residency in a related area of expertise; OR completion of PGY-1 ASHP-accredited Pharmacy Residency and a minimum of 3 years of experience in a related area of expertise and BPS board certification at the time of application; OR minimum of 5 years of experience in a related area of expertise and BPS board certification at the time of application • Expertise in infectious diseases pharmacotherapy, outpatient antimicrobial management, transitions of care, and antimicrobial stewardship principles • Understanding of workflows involving inpatient units, ambulatory clinics, infusion services, emergency departments, urgent care settings, and telehealth services • Epic support and clinical decision support tools knowledge • Participation in infectious diseases, antimicrobial stewardship, ambulatory pharmacy practice, and OPAT/COpAT professional organizations and initiatives

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal Employment Opportunity employer • Remote work arrangement