ID/Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Pharmacist
ECU Health has an open position for an ID/Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Pharmacist. This position is based out of Greenville, NC in a flexible and friendly health system providing innovative ID patient care. The position is hybrid, with some on site time required but also the ability to work from home at times. The hours are Monday-Friday approximately 7:00-15:30 (no weekends or Holidays).
A link to the job posting can be found here: https://careers.ecuhealth.org/jobs/17313263-infectious-diseases-slash-antimicrobial-stewardship-clinical-pharmacist-i?gcd=1001679609.1757963726
An additional overview of the position is as follows:
The formal ECU Health (ECUH) Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) has been in place for over 30 years. The ID/ASP pharmacists serve the large academic medical center in Greenville, North Carolina and remotely serve the community hospitals affiliated with ECUH but located across eastern North Carolina (total of 1,708 beds for 9 total hospitals). They provide ASP services including prospective audit and feedback, response to rapid molecular blood culture results, response to ID pharmacotherapy questions, and monitoring compliance with the antimicrobial restriction program. They also round with the ID Consult services at the medical center, currently made up of two separate rounding teams each with an ID fellow and ID NP. The team also works collaboratively with the ECUH Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) team, Quality, Infection Control, and Microbiology to streamline initiatives related to infections and maintain an annual antibiogram. The team participates in The Joint Commission survey and readiness. They work with IT and clinical informatics regularly on EHR tools, updates, and data management.
The team leads and manages the Antimicrobial Utilization and Stewardship Subcommittee (AUSS) of the ECUH System P&T where they create and oversee the antimicrobial formulary, guidelines, policies, and protocols, as well as conduct quality improvement and research projects that result in system wide changes, poster presentations, and publications. They disseminate a quarterly ASP Newsletter to all hospitals with program updates and a clinical review. They maintain the ECUH Antimicrobial Therapy Guide Book which complies facility specific treatment guidelines and is updated annually with an online and print copy provided to clinicians at all ECUH hospitals. They track and report ASP data quarterly including antimicrobial use/SAAR, workload, provider acceptance rates, and outcomes for all 9 hospitals. They analyze this data via projects and Performance Improvement reports.
The team educates clinicians (including pharmacy learners, APPs, medical/surgical residents, and PA students) about antimicrobial use and best practices by providing review sessions, lectures, and precepting. The team is responsible for precepting the ECUH ID PGY2 pharmacy resident, the PGY1 pharmacy residents (6), the CC/EM PGY2 pharmacy residents as needed, and fourth year pharmacy students from UNC Chapel Hill and Campbell University via ASP/ID rotations, presentations, and projects. Rotation precepting is required for ~ 2 learners/year minimum (can be layered learning). The team is also well integrated into the ECU Physicians ID Fellowship program where they attend monthly ID Journal Club and weekly ID Case Conference, deliver lectures, and precept the 1st year ID Fellows on a stewardship rotation. The team also represents ECUH regionally and nationally as NC CLASP participants, NC ID Pharmacy Residency participants, and SIDP committee members.
Come join our team!
