Director, Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners
Location: Bethesda, Maryland
Description: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists is currently seeking to employ Director, Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners right now, this job will be depute in Maryland. Detailed specification about this job opportunity please read the description below. The Director, Section of Inpatient Care Practitioner serves as secretary to the executive committee of the ASH! P Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners and provides leadership and engages staff throughout the organization to accomplish the objectives established by the Section and its Executive Committee. Serves as an information resource and provides guidance to ASHP members, staff, and others regarding pharmacy practice in various inpatient care environments in hospitals and health systems. Provides advice and counsel to ASHP on various issues and contributes to the success of ASHP through service on various staff committees and other bodies.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Serves as an information resource and provides guidance to ASHP members, staff, and others regarding trends in pharmaceutical services to inpatients and members' needs with respect to providing those services. For the purposes of this position description, inpatient care includes a broad array of services including, but not limited to the following: provision of pharmaceutical care, o! versight of unit dose drug distribution, intravenous admixture! preparation and non sterile compounding, and other services provided by frontline pharmacists in the inpatient environment with an emphasis in small and rural hospital pharmacy.
- Provides expert advice to ASHP members, staff, and others regarding membership, professional practice, regulatory, legislative, educational, and technical issues relating to these trends.
- Monitors the activities of other organizations and builds effective relationships to achieve the goals and objectives of ASHP and the Section; serves as the official ASHP liaison to selected organizations as assigned. This includes travel to selected meetings to gather information, develop synergistic relationships and make speaking presentations.
- Leads the development and collaborative implementation of ASHP action plans to meet the needs of members providing pharmaceutical services to inpatients, consistent with ASHP's strategic goals and priorities.
- Serves as staff coordinato! r of committees (including member committees and advisory groups) as assigned; participates as a member of selected staff committees as assigned.
- Assists with the staffing of major ASHP educational meetings; travels to selected meetings to represent ASHP, gather information about industry trends, and to establish synergistic relationships with other groups as assigned; and develops and makes speaking presentations as assigned.
- Serves as secretary and principal staff support to the executive committee of the ASHP Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners; coordinates section operations in cooperation with other ASHP Divisions.
- Serves as editor for the ASHP Inpatient Care NewsLink. Monitors, moderates, and serves as administrator for the Section’s Connect ® community(s).
- Assists with the development and implementation of ASHP professional policies and practice standards as assigned.
- Writes manuscripts for publication, major report! s, committee minutes, and other communications as assigned.
- In! teracts with members of the press and other news media to provide pharmacy perspective on issues of importance to ASHP and its members.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
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