Clinical Pharmacist BC Cancer Surrey, BC You are a Clinical Pharmacist who thrives in a teamwork environment that offers a balance of patient interaction, collaborative care planning, and preparing medications and other pharmaceuticals. You have an interest in a continuous learning environment and developing knowledge in specialized oncology practice including drug therapy and use of alternative complementary treatments. Working with BC Cancer, a global leader in clinical care and research, will offer you meaningful work and a forward-thinking team of colleagues. Connor McIntyre works with BC Cancer as a Clinical Pharmacist, and his role includes both in-pharmacy duties as well as direct patient care, including counselling newly diagnosed patients on their medications, and supporting nurses in the chemotherapy suite giving IV therapy. He shares: “I enjoy being able to help people during some of the most difficult times in their lives…this is the most rewarding work I’ve ever been a part of. If you thrive on innovation, collaboration, and making a difference every day, this is your next role. Watch this video to learn more about working at BC Cancer What you’ll do Clinical Pharmacists are key members of the multidisciplinary team at BC Cancer, and work with the support of BC Cancer’s provincial network of pharmacists. Responsibilities include providing individualization of drug therapy utilizing patient information to develop therapeutic plans, providing in-service education to other health care professionals within the Agency, providing drug information to patients, physicians, nurses and other health care professionals both internal and external to the Agency. Usual duties include:
Provide individualization of drug therapy to patients through methods such as receiving patient charts, assessing clinical response through patient contact and collaboration with other health care providers and creating an individualized therapeutic plan.
Interact with patients and the health care team to ensure appropriate medication therapy and to develop therapeutic plans through methods such as developing discharge plans for inpatients and medication calendars for outpatients, assisting, as part of the care team, with the formulation of a therapeutic plan for the use of supportive care medications and assessing patient comprehension of that plan, answering patient’s questions and assisting with formulation of a therapeutic plan for the use of alternative and complementary treatments, and monitoring of patient compliance with therapeutic plans.
Prepare and dispense medications and other pharmaceutical supplies to ensure appropriate medication therapy and to ensure practices and standards are in accordance with relevant federal and provincial legislation.
Provide verbal and written drug information to physicians, nurses and other health care professionals, to the lay public, pharmacists and external health care professionals, and to patients through individualized counselling.
