SSM Health DePaul Hospital is looking for an intern/temporary worker to assist pharmacists in preparing and dispensing medications, maintaining drug inventory, and managing patient records, while also developing their skills to become a pharmacist.
Requirements
- Must be in currently enrolled in pharmacy school
- Perform all duties of a pharmacy technician.
- Uses an understanding of Medication Therapy Management (MTM) programs from different insurers to identify and flag qualifying patients.
- Accurately and efficiently prepares IV medications including parenteral nutrition and chemotherapy.
- Prepares infusion products utilizing appropriate sterile technique procedures.
- Follows all procedures for documenting and dispensing controlled substances.
- Handles controlled substances in a manner that ensures accountability and security.
Responsibilities
- Assist pharmacists in preparing and dispensing medications, maintaining the drug inventory, and maintaining patient records.
- Interacts with customers, answers phones, processes insurance billing, runs the cash register and participates in record keeping requirements.
- Answers telephones and emails, responding to all inquiries which do not require the attention of a pharmacist.
- Maintains electronic records related to patient profile, insurance and new, transferred or discontinued prescriptions.
- Performs all duties of a pharmacy technician.
- Assembles/prepares/compounds medications for inpatient and outpatient use.
- Assures medications are available for patients by assisting in inventory control including: ordering, checking in orders, stocking shelves, updating the computerized inventory system, rotating stock, processing recalls and conducting quarterly inspections of all areas where drugs are stored in the pharmacy for outdated and unusable medications and quarantining them in a separate are from useable stock.
Other
- Provide customer service through greeting and acknowledging every customer, is knowledgeable of merchandise and assists customers within the pharmacy.
- Informs patients when delays are encountered with filling their prescriptions.
- Works only under the supervision of a registered pharmacist and may not perform duties that can legally be performed only by a registered pharmacist.
- High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience
- No experience required
