Emergency Medicine Pharmacist First Shift
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Job overview
The Emergency Medicine Pharmacist provides safe, effective medication therapy to patients in the hospital and supports medication-use systems. The role includes consultations, education, medication-order review, emergency response, procedural sedation and intubation support, and antimicrobial stewardship. Candidates need a bachelor's degree, a Kentucky pharmacist license, and three years of hospital experience or an ASHP-accredited pharmacy residency. ACLS and board certification must be obtained within specified timeframes.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
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Full job description
Experience Required
3 - 20 years
Minimum Education Required
Bachelor's Degree
Compensation
$7.25 / hourly
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
1
Work Schedule and Shift Requirements
First (Day)
Job Description
Summary
Job Description:
20K Sign on Bonus Eligible for new hire who has not worked for Baptist Health or its affiliates in the preceding 12 months
Clinical Pharmacist Specialists are responsible and accountable for the provision of safe, effective, and prompt medication therapy. Through various assignments within the department, they provide support of centralized and decentralized medication use systems as well as deliver optimal medication therapy to patients within their specialty. All pharmacists are responsible for drug preparation and distribution for medications; evaluating, inputting and verification of medication orders; assisting providers and other health care professionals by serving as a drug information resource; monitoring and managing medication regimens per protocol or per consult; and managing pharmacy inventory.
Essential Duties:
Provides verbal and written consultations concerning medication therapy on a daily basis.
Provides education to patients, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare team members as requested.
Initiates, documents, and participates in department activities that promote positive patient outcomes. These activities may include, but are not limited to: MUE, ADR reporting, resolving drug therapy questions, therapeutic drug monitoring, identifying drug interactions and allergies, direct contact with prescribers to clarify major problem orders, and non-formulary drug requests.
Responds to medical emergencies in department and throughout hospital as needed including Stroke Alerts and Code Blues.
Assist in procedural sedations as well as rapid sequence intubations to ensure safe and accurate delivery of high risk medications.
Ensures antibiotic stewardship activities and issues are communicated with the ED practitioners, regarding opportunities to optimize antimicrobial utilization and help reduce inappropriate antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance.
Assist nursing in the utilization of programmable pumps to promote safe drug administration in the ED. * ACLS required.
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree
3 years hospital experience and/or completion of an ASHP-accredited Pharmacy residency
Kentucky a Pharmacist License
Must obtain ACLS within 6 months
Must obtain Board Certification within 1 year
Preferred Doctor of Pharmacy (D.P.)
Graduated of accredited College of Pharmacy, one of the following is required:
Board Certification in Infectious Diseases within 3 years of hire
Certification/education, such as that offered by nationally recognized antimicrobial stewardship education programs, within 3 years of hire
Completion of PGY-2 Infectious Diseases ASHP-accredited Pharmacy Residency
Benefits:
Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
Paid Time Off available for use upon hire
Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
Employee Assistance Program
Retirement plans with company match
If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now!
Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
"EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to r ace, color, national origin, gender, s exual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.
NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES
Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056."
Job Type
Full time
Benefits Offered
Not specified
Veteran Preference
No
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
R26107669
How this job compares
Set against the 11,336 open Pharmacist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Kentucky median$98–172K/yr43 salary ranges
- Kentucky median$60–77/hr152 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 259 open Pharmacist jobs in Kentucky and 11,336 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Kentucky
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — more than three in four Pharmacist postings that state a minimum ask for (median 1 year, across 3,923 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 6,516 of the 11,336 open Pharmacist jobs (57%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.
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