Emergency Medicine:
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Emergency Medicine is an elective 6 weeks rotation at Benefis Hospital. There is a multidisciplinary team including 2-3 physicians, nurse practitioners and/or physician assistants, nurses, social work, and a clinical pharmacy specialist that manage patients throughout three units in the emergency department. The resident will be part of the multidisciplinary team that cares for the acutely ill patients in the emergency department.
The clinical pharmacy specialist on the team is responsible for ensuring safe and effective medication use for all patients within the Emergency Department. Routine patient care include attendance and participation in the management of medical emergencies (including but not limited to, stroke, MI, cardiac arrest, trauma), review patient profiles, interview patients to perform complete reconciliation of their home medications and participation in emergency medicine committees. In addition, the clinical pharmacist initiate therapeutic plans by establishing a working relationship with healthcare providers to identify, prevent, or resolve medication-related issues and make recommendations when appropriate.
Oncology:
- The practice area is the Sletten Cancer Institute and inpatient oncology unit, as well as other areas where oncology patients may be cared for. The pharmacist in this practice area is expected to interact with all members of the oncology care team. This rotation in oncology will provide the resident with experience in providing clinical pharmacy services to patients with an underlying oncology diagnosis both in an ambulatory care environment, as well as in the inpatient environment.. The resident will have many opportunities to participate in solving specific clinical problems in a complex patient population which may include managing traditional chemotherapy side effects, assessing for immunotherapy adverse reactions (IARs), assisting ancillary team members in mitigating the financial toxicities of cancer care, as well as providing answers to medication questions posed by patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals.
Pediatrics / NICU:
- The six-week rotation in pediatrics and neonatology will provide the resident with experience in providing clinical pharmacy services to all children from birth through 18 years of age admitted to the PED or NICU units. The resident will have many opportunities to participate in solving specific clinical problems in this unique patient population. This experience will occur within the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and on the pediatrics floor, in which the women's and children's unit-based pharmacist is an integral part of the multidisciplinary team. The women's and children's unit-based pharmacist is responsible for ensuring safe and effective medication use for all patients admitted to the team. Routine responsibilities include: rounding daily with the neonatalogy care team, writing TPN orders for NICU patients, as well as addressing formal consults for non-formulary drug requests, therapeutic drug monitoring for all patient's admitted to the NICU, Pediatric and Labor and Delivery units. The pharmacist will also provide drug information and education to healthcare professionals as well and patients and caregivers as needed.
Pharmacy Administration:
- The Pharmacy Administration rotation will provide the resident with an introductory experience in the leadership and administration of a comprehensive pharmaceutical service within a complex health system. This is supplemented by projects, discussions, and participation on various teams and committees as available and appropriate over a period of 6 weeks.
Anti-Coagulation:
- The anticoagulation clinic (ACC) rotation will develop the pharmacist residence ability to monitor and dose anticoagulants in an outpatient setting. The role of the pharmacist is to effectively interview patients, identify factors that may impact the patient’s anticoagulation therapy, develop and communicate a plan to the patient, and alert providers when clinically relevant.
Ambulatory Care:
- The Ambulatory Care Learning Experience is an elective 6-week rotation offered through Benefis Ambulatory Pharmacy (BAP). BAP provides services to assisted living, home health, home infusion, hospice, long-term care, and transitional care. BAP also provides a comprehensive MTM program to select beneficiaries of the Benefis Health Plan.
Hospice / Home Infusion / Palliative Care (In-progress):