PGY2 Pediatric Critical Care Residency

Company: Norton Children's Hospital
Location: Louisville
Posted on: December 4, 2019

Job Description:

Norton Children’s Hospital Pharmacy offers one of only a few specialized pediatric critical care pharmacy residencies available in the country. The one-year experience offers extensive exposure to all aspects of pediatric critical care. The resident will be responsible for providing direct patient care through daily participation in multidisciplinary rounds, will carry a code pager and participate in trauma resuscitations. Daily activities for all residents include, but are not limited to, participating in multidisciplinary rounds, providing drug information to other health care professionals, consulting on pharmacokinetics, conducting nutritional evaluations, medication safety management, counseling patients and their caregivers, and topic and/or patient discussions with pharmacists. Residents gain teaching experience by serving as co-preceptors for pharmacy students and PGY1 pharmacy residents, providing continuing education for pharmacists and teaching in the pediatrics elective at Sullivan University College of Pharmacy. Norton Children’s Hospital is structured as a decentralized pharmacy where residents will be embedded team members in the units. Research opportunities are abundant, as residents have the opportunity to become involved in the pediatric pharmacology research unit.

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