Inpatient Pharmacist (ICU) - UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center
- UCLA Health and David Geffen School of Medicine
- Santa Monica, CA, USA
Job Description
You bring more than skill, knowledge, and expertise to your role as an allied health professional. You bring a deep passion for improving the lives of everyone around you. At UCLA Health, we’re committed to fostering a working environment where you are supported and empowered to be your best. You’ll love it here!
In this key role, you will work across multiple pharmacy locations, primarily the intensive care unit, on a variety of shifts, including float shifts. As a Critical Care Pharmacist, you will respond to codes, review and verify medication orders, patient medical records, and medication profiles, and optimize safe medication therapy. You will interact and/or round with other health professionals to promote the safe and effective use of medications, and provide clinical services to neonatal, pediatric, and adult patients in accordance with departmental policies and procedures, including pharmacokinetic dosing, therapeutic interchange, IV/PO conversions, TPN and aminoglycoside monitoring, and pharmacist interventions. You will also prepare and dispense medications in all inpatient settings, counsel patients on appropriate drug use, and oversee the dispensing, return, and waste of controlled substances on your assigned shift/unit. Working in assigned centralized and decentralized pharmacy areas and patient care units, you will complete operational and clinical projects as assigned by Pharmacy Management.
- Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree required
- Active California Pharmacist license required
- Minimum 2 years of hospital inpatient experience or completion of an ASHP-accredited residency
- PGY2 residency training in Critical Care or related field strongly preferred
- Knowledge of and ability to perform age specific and disease specific pharmacokinetic calculations.
- Skill in preparing sterile intravenous hazardous and non-hazardous medications, using aseptic technique and following approved policies and procedures.
- Exceptional communication, interpersonal, organizational and follow-through skills
Advance your career and experience true inspiration as you collaborate with an exceptional team of top clinicians. As an allied health professional at UCLA Health, you’ll enjoy ongoing opportunities for learning and development so you can continually expand your skills while positively impacting our world-class patient care. In our inclusive, supportive culture, you’ll take on unique, high-acuity cases for one of the most vibrant and diverse communities in the world. It’s the chance to take on some of the most exciting challenges in healthcare.
If you’re ready to advance your clinical career, we invite you to explore opportunities throughout our system of award-winning hospitals and more than 280 community-based clinics throughout Southern California. We have openings in these areas:
● Clinical Lab & Pathology
● Imaging
● Pharmacy
● Phlebotomy
● Rehab
● Respiratory Therapy
● Social Work
No matter where you serve with UCLA Health, you’ll be living the dream thanks to all the cultural, recreational, and lifestyle advantages of our Southern California locations.