Pharmacist

Founded in 1941, Dignity Health - Dominican Hospital is a 188-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Santa Cruz, California. Serving over 80,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, orthopedics, and a Family Birthing Center. Additionally, Dominican Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and has been awarded the AMA/ASA’s Get the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement, recognizing the hospital’s commitment to providing the best stroke care.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

Position Summary:

The Clinical Pharmacist is responsible for development, implementation,  measuring outcome  and education of the antimicrobial stewardship program for the facility, analyzing and recommending action plan(s) for reported medication errors/adverse drug reactions, medication formulary management, order sets initiation/updates, evaluate clinical programs, preparation of clinical protocols/investigational studies, and other clinical activities requested by medical staff and pharmacy leadership. This will be accomplished through collaboration, coordination and communication with the Pharmacy Administration, Infection Preventionists, Pharmacists, Medical Staff and other healthcare workers. Ensures clinical effectiveness of  medication (including antimicrobials) usage; decrease the emergence of resistance; education of prescribers and clinicians (including pharmacists, nurses and ancillary healthcare providers) in therapeutically efficacious and cost- effective therapy; decrease adverse reactions; improve patient care by shortening length of stay, preventing ADR; promote conversion of intravenous therapy to oral antibiotics; consolidate formulary; control  medication costs.

Minimum:

• Bachelors of Science Pharmacy upon hire required or
• Doctor of Pharmacy upon hire required
• Pharmacist: CA (PHARM:CA) 

Preferred: 

• Two (2) years hospital experience or clinical pharmacy residency preferred and 
• Experience in developing antimicrobial stewardship program or participating antimicrobial stewardship and implementing medication safety program