DEBLYN T. WETE

Sole manager and clinical pharmacist, ensuring Medication Therapy Management, pharmacy operations, and compliance with practice standards of medication dispensing, regulations and statutes, and inventory in Pharmacy Services

• Optimize treatment outcomes in Medication Therapy Management, providing valuable clinical knowledge, evidence-based practice, and effective communication with medical staff, patients, and their families
• Develop personalized treatment plans and collaborate with healthcare teams to review treatment regimens and recommended updates per current guidelines and treatment algorithms in diabetes management, chronic disease therapies, antimicrobial stewardship, and anti-coagulation therapies with DOACs
• Review, recommend, and manage treatment regimens for clinical effectiveness, drug selection, dosing, contraindications, side effects, potential medication interactions, and therapeutic outcomes per treatment goals
• Serve as authority on chronic Diseases Management - diabetes, hypertension, hyper- and dyslipidemia, respiratory disease management and treatment, drug interactions, dosing, and clinical guidance adherence to medical staff, clinic, and patients
• Utilize and implement Pharmacotherapy and treatment guidelines in direct patient care, initiating recommendations to providers, consistent with most current guidelines
• Monitor and report medication errors, adverse drug reactions, and other patient safety objectives; document clinical interventions accurately and timely in eCW when appropriate; promote and monitor compliance in established medication therapy management and policies
• Continuously contribute towards policies and optimization of Ambulatory Pharmacy services towards optimal patient-centric outcomes through direct and indirect interactions with patients, providers, and other interdisciplinary teams
• Adapt and maintain written policies and procedures defining operational requirements; assist in planning and implementing Pharmacy quality assurance activities

• Reviewed/analyzed, and researched publications in providing medication information, clinical appropriateness and dispensing recommendations to providers; education and counseling in current practices
• Optimized assessments of therapeutic duplication in the programs’ drug regimens, formularies and testings, implement programs in disaster, and dispense medications
• Subject Matter Expert resource for inter-departmental clinical, contract, and benefit inquiries
• 16hrs

• Evaluated and entered orders in Pending File, assessing therapy appropriateness
• Utilized information from CPRS in monitoring and communicating recommendations via Teams to Providers, adapting therapies consistent with pharmacy principles and clinical pharmacodynamics towards optimizing treatment effectiveness and reducing adverse events; pharmacist enhanced success of therapy and avoided treatment failure
• Assessed and managed polypharmacy to include neuroleptics, anti-diabetic management; intervening in the renal dosing of antimicrobial therapies of patients – antimicrobial therapies consistent with guidelines, pain management, and respiratory management - Asthma and COPD Staging and Therapies; Duplicative therapies, side effects, drug interactions, contraindications, towards optimal dosing appropriate with disease management, guidelines, and treatment goals

• Accomplished and surpassed outcomes metrics through scheduling initial patients’ assessments, providing periodic assessment of patients' medication therapy, monitoring, recommending or implementing changes (within the scope of clinical privileges) managing chronic diseases in patients - diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, Polypharmacy, and Pain Management
• Utilized knowledge of standards in specialist services and acute/critical care units to navigate patient care and resolve clinical issues.
• Assessed patients' medication therapy, monitored, and made recommendations (within scope of clinical privileges), adapting therapies based on clinical pharmacy principles and pharmacodynamics to optimize treatment effectiveness and minimize adverse events.
• Developed and reported personalized treatment plans, monitored therapies, and interpreted lab results to enhance patient outcomes in diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia management alongside other co-morbid conditions.
• Applied knowledge of the standards of Specialist services, Acute/Critical Care units in navigating care and solving other clinical issues as needed
• Participated in developing and reporting criteria for drug utilization evaluations, data collection, trending reports, and requisite quality assurance activities ensuring appropriate and safe drug utilization
• Contributed to development and reporting of criteria for drug utilization evaluations, data collection, and trending reports, ensuring safe and appropriate drug utilization through requisite quality assurance activities.
• Performed audits and quality assessment, monitoring and presenting reports on quality assurance monitoring and QA yearly monitoring
• Managed polypharmacy by reviewing patient medication regimens

• Preparation and optimization of Infusion and Investigational therapies towards Tracked developments in COVID-19 treatment-19 Treatment Therapy Management, consistent with evolving guidelines and recommendations

COVID

• Reviewed and interpreted medication orders to ensure patient safety and compliance.
• Provided drug utilization reviews to optimize therapeutic outcomes for patients.
• Collaborated with healthcare teams to develop personalized medication management plans.

• Evaluated and implemented DUE/DUR and policies, other quality assurance programs, enhance outcomes and cost-benefits in Relief Projects and on-going deployment efforts; consult and update, with advisory recommendations of facility’s pharmacy programs
• Optimized through monitoring, on-going evaluation of medication regimens, P&T Reviews, DUR of standard and measurable outcomes in antibiotic Multi-Drug Resistance programs
• More CE hours in preparation for field assignment

• Prepared and reviewed clinical and medical information for Grant Proposals, IRB reports, documentation - Human Subject Protection; oral and written presentations; Implemented Study Protocol per Study Design, FDA regulations and as Pharmacist applied relevant knowledge and pharmacotherapy consistent with clinical trial protocol; medication safety; SOP guidelines
• Demonstrates knowledge of the design, conduct, and interpretation of controlled clinical drug trials or other research related to Critical/Acute Care as applicable.
• Liaising with Clinical Investigators, reviewed and implemented Clinical Trial per SOP in IND, NCE, etc
• Documented CTCAE and analyzed data & statistics onto excel , clinical trials and designs updates SLPs, formulary, optimize and provide appropriate clinical information on treatment, clinical pathways, access (to NTDs, INDs, Orphans Drugs/NDA), and FDA Compliance, and GCP, 12 CFR(E6) - 312, 314; 45 CFR 46
• PRN

• Prospectively reviewed medication profiles prior to rounds, performed rounds, recommending therapy optimization, and updates; entered, processed, and dispensed medication orders, consistent with pharmacotherapy principles, assessments and protocols; Chronic Care and Medication Therapy Management, implemented Pain Management and protocol
• Attended and participated in multidisciplinary rounds, team meetings, and conferences to design and implement therapeutic plans using effective and economical medication treatments.
• Optimized infection Control implementation in (ICU, Med-Surg Units) through coordinating, developing, and monitoring (with other departments) policies and protocols; established Antibiotic Stewardship Program dDocumented, implementing drug review and pharmacokinetics implementation policies
• Presented pharmacotherapy principles and knowledge monthly to enhance drug information and pharmacy protocols, reviewed medication use and outcomes to optimize pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
• Reviewed for appropriateness of care (indications, lab and pertinent parameters, drug interactions, adverse effects, contra-indications), and enter medication orders
• Worked 40 hours per week in a pharmacy setting
• Collaborated with healthcare teams to optimize patient medication therapy management.

• Prospectively reviewed medication orders, other pertinent parameters in Pharmacokinetic dosing, monitoring antibiotics, anti-coagulation, cardiac regimens
• Oversaw and boosted productivity of 14 pharmacy technicians by training on IV and sterile-compounding techniques/ delivery (USP 795, 797, 800), and drug inventory control.
• Reviewed chemotherapy protocols, and created care guidelines, and utilized radiation/ oncology electronic medical record system to assist with chemotherapy regimen selection, management, and monitoring; reviewed published data, lab values, and concomitant disease states to manage medication orders and dosages for appropriateness of chemotherapy regimens, and concomitant disease states
• Monitored for drug interactions, MTM and response to treatments - premedication and side effects
• Advised Providers on recommended changes to chemotherapy and related orders; anticoagulation dosing and monitoring - conversion, management
• Optimized order evaluation through extensive review of medication order, recommend appropriateness and pharmacokinetic dosing of prescribed orders before entering, processing, and dispensing of medication orders
• 30 Hrs

• 40 Hrs

• Led and emphasized clinical appropriateness of regimens, Prior Authorizations for HIV, Harvoni protocol for Hep-C treatments, improving operations and clinical evaluation of HAART therapies in indigenous populations
• Managed operational excellence, implementing pharmacotherapy review of ARV regimens, Adverse Events management and compliance assessment; comprehensive Therapy Management - MTM Implemented pain management protocol, ARVs regimen optimization and compliance, & MTM
• Managed operations - supply chain, inventory of 340-B accounts and budget - proposals and recommendation; Optimized staff performance - feedback and coaching, accomplishing compliance with objectives in increased patient compliance in therapy, improved goals of therapy, and enhanced customer satisfaction
• 40 Hrs (340-b Management)

• 40 Hrs

• Reviewed, interpreted, monitored medication orders in acute/chronic care, antibiotic stewardship and pharmacokinetics.
• Implemented and processed advanced knowledge of policy-making by participating in P&T Committee, gained understanding in operating units - internal medicine, critical care, infectious diseases, chronic care, HIV, and anti-coagulation
• Assessed patient medication profiles and orders, dosing and appropriateness of therapies, and dispensed medications; counseled patients regarding dietary, and/or medications
• 40 Hrs