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Orlando Health, Inc. lists this ORMC Clinical Pharmacy Specialist: Infectious Diseases opportunity in orlando, Florida. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Position Summary
ORMC Clinical Pharmacy Specialist: Infectious Diseases
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Infectious Diseases
Facility and Department Overview
OHORMC is the flagship hospital of Orlando Health, one of Florida's most comprehensive not-for-profit health systems.
Central Florida's only Level I Trauma Center and a Comprehensive Stroke Center.
More than 250 Medical Residents and Fellows.
PGY1 and PGY2 (critical care, emergency medicine, oncology, and pediatrics) pharmacy residency training programs.
Position Overview
Collaborate with Infectious Diseases physicians and multidisciplinary teams to optimize antimicrobial therapy for complex hospitalized patients.
Perform prospective audit and feedback activities including review of bloodstream infections, antimicrobial stewardship worklists, restricted antimicrobial utilization, broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy, HIV/antiretroviral therapy, and other targeted stewardship initiatives.
Participate in Infectious Diseases Consult Service rounds with ID attendings / fellows and provide evidence-based recommendations regarding antimicrobial initiation, optimization, de-escalation, duration of therapy, and diagnostic stewardship.
Support development, implementation, and maintenance of antimicrobial stewardship initiatives, protocols, clinical pathways, order sets, guidelines, and quality improvement projects.
Analyze antimicrobial utilization and resistance data, participate in the development of annual antibiograms, and identify opportunities to improve clinical outcomes and antimicrobial utilization.
Collaborate with Infection Prevention, Microbiology, Sepsis, Quality, and Clinical Operations teams on system-wide initiatives focused on improving patient outcomes and reducing antimicrobial resistance.
Participate in multidisciplinary and corporate committees, including antimicrobial stewardship, medication-use, infection prevention, microbiology, sepsis, and quality-improvement initiatives.
Serve as a mentor and infectious diseases resource for a growing decentralized clinical pharmacy staff.
Precept pharmacy residents and students in infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship learning experiences.
Participate in clinical research, medication-use evaluations, and scholarly activities related to infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship.
Provide education to pharmacists, physicians, nurses, residents, fellows, and students.
Dedicated involvement in a system-wide antimicrobial stewardship program
Active engagement in residency education, research scholarship, and publication opportunities within a large academic center.
Desired/Required Credentials
Doctor of Pharmacy degree.
Completion of PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency plus 3+ years of hospital practice, completion of PGY-2 Pharmacy Residency (Infectious Diseases preferred), or five or more years of hospital clinical practice experience.
BCIDP preferred or eligibility with commitment to obtain certification.
Florida pharmacy licensure eligibility required.
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Worksite address
orlando, FL, 32885, US
Who can apply
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