Pharmacy Intern

Job Description

About the Company:

Bon Secours Mercy Health is dedicated to continually improving health care quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness. Their hospitals, care sites, and clinicians are recognized for clinical and operational excellence.

Job Description:

This is a PRN (as needed) position for a Pharmacy Intern.

Summary of Primary Function/General Purpose of Position:

The Pharmacy Intern assists pharmacists in safely and correctly interpreting and processing physicians’ orders by entering, selecting, assembling, dispensing, and ensuring the delivery of medications to the ultimate user for both inpatient and outpatient services. They ensure the accurate and timely distribution of medications, IV solutions, floor stock supplies, and controlled substances to patient care areas. The intern also helps ensure accurate charge and credit functions for inpatients and outpatients and interacts with medical center personnel, physicians, patients, and others via verbal and personal contact daily.

Essential Job Functions:

• Inpatient/Infusion Pharmacy:
• Assists in accurate medication order interpretation, including selecting or compounding, dispensing, ensuring delivery of, and stocking the correct products to fulfill physician orders.
• Fills medication drawers and automated dispensing cabinets, floor stock, and controlled substances as applicable.
• Compounds IV admixtures aseptically and accurately.
• Operates and loads automation devices (robotics or automated cabinets) for drug dispensing.
• Assists other hospital staff with medication and pharmacy-related issues via answering phone calls and responding to computerized medication messages.
• Distributes patient medications promptly and efficiently, as well as delivers and restocks medications.
• Completes monthly unit inspections for an assigned hospital area as assigned – this involves ensuring this area has no outdated medications, is appropriately stocked, and checking crash carts.
• Clarifies prescriptions with physicians or appropriate staff members and participation in medication reconciliation with patients as assigned.
• Counsels and provides medication education to transition of care patients prior to discharge as assigned.
• Trains, educates, and precepts new pharmacy technicians, students, and interns.
• Participates on various departmental and interdepartmental committees.

• Outpatient/Non-Acute Pharmacy:
• Assists in accurate medication order interpretation, involving entering, selecting, filling, compounding, dispensing, and ensuring release of the final product to the correct person to fulfill prescriber orders.
• Assists patients and counseling of medication and pharmacy-related issues via answering phone calls and in-person consultations under the supervision and direction of a pharmacist.
• Restocks frequently used medications and over-the-counter products in pharmacy areas, operating applicable automation dispensing system devices within the pharmacy.
• Receives, transfers, and clarifies oral prescriptions with prescribers or appropriate staff members as authorized by state law and under pharmacist supervision.
• Administers immunizations [if immunization certified via an accredited immunization program as allowed per state law].
• Trains, educates, and precepts new pharmacy technicians, students, and interns.
• Assists other staff with medication issues and responds to email and phone call concerns or follow-up.

Licensing/Certification:

• Pharmacy Intern License – State Board of Pharmacy (required)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) – Various (preferred)

Education:

• High School Diploma or GED (required)
• Actively enrolled in an accredited college of pharmacy with an active board of pharmacy intern license (required)

Work Experience:

• None

Patient Population:

Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his or her assigned unit, including:

• Neonates (0-4 weeks)
• Infant (1-12 months)
• Pediatrics (1-12 years)
• Adolescents (13-17 years)
• Adults (18-64 years)
• Geriatrics (65 years and older)