The Pharmacy department at UPMC Harrisburg is looking for a Pharmacy Intern to support the provision of pharmaceutical care to patients by assisting pharmacists with various operational and clinical tasks, ensuring compliance with regulations and hospital policies, and developing their pharmacy skills.
Requirements
- Good standing in an accredited School of Pharmacy, entering P1 year or above, and applied for intern license.
- Pennsylvania State Board of Pharmacy Intern Certificate required
Responsibilities
- Assists the pharmacist with medication distribution, delivering medication, refilling automated dispensing cabinets, and exchanging emergency medication carts.
- Participate in filling of medication orders maintaining patient profiles, performing prepackaging.
- Prepare IV admixtures/chemotherapy and controlled substance orders.
- Assists the pharmacist with medication review, including but not limited to computer order entry, monitoring allergies, enforcing formulary decisions, and evaluating drug interactions.
- Accurately completes departmental documentation and billing by the end of each scheduled shift in accordance with department procedures. Examples included, but are not limited to, dispensing and compounding records, refrigerator logs, hood-cleaning records, chemotherapy compounding records, patient/department billing, and controlled substance delivery records.
- Where applicable, complete clinical workload documentation (manual or electronic) by the end of each scheduled shift in accordance with Department procedures.
- Effectively uses information systems, robotics, and other applications to prepare medication labels and assist with dispensing medications.
Other
- Student position for current pharmacy students
- Very fast paced!
- Rotating-Day/Evening
- Scheduling requirements are practice site specific and determined by departmental needs. Intern shifts can include daylight, evening, weekend, and holiday requirements.
- Demonstrate a service orientation in all interpersonal relations. Conveys a positive, professional image.
