Graduate Intern Pharmacist

Responsibilities

• Prepares medications including measuring, mixing, counting, labeling, and recording amounts and dosages of medications.
• Ensures customer satisfaction by handling each customer in a professional, courteous, and helpful manner.
• Follows company policies and procedures including register performance, security issues, and confidentiality.
• Aids the pharmacist by receiving new written prescriptions or refill requests, verifying information, and referring medical questions to the pharmacist.
• Accesses, inputs, and retrieves patient and prescription information into and from the computer, and successfully, efficiently, and accurately bills insurance and generates labels for medications.
• Mixes pharmaceutical preparations, fills vials, bubble packs, and/or dads with the correct and right amounts of tablets and capsules, and generates labels for bottles.
• Alerts the pharmacist if a Controlled Substance (CII) prescription needs to be dispensed during compounding.
• Prepares all compounds to fulfill waiting orders, including weighing/measuring chemical, preparing equipment/supplies for chemical use, completing the compounding process for available chemicals and hormone supplies.
• Retrieves and files pharmacy prescriptions in the appropriate files.
• Assists patients and customers by greeting customers, offering assistance, running cash register for over-the-counter and prescription sales, receiving payments, and providing other services requested by customers.
• Bags and hangs prescriptions after the pharmacist has checked them. Prepares prescriptions for deliveries and mail outs as necessary.
• Answers the telephone within two rings and handles requests within their job description including refill requests, new prescriptions, and general questions. Directs prescriber inquiries, prescription transfer requests, and patients’ medical questions to the pharmacist.
• Maintains store stock of medications by reviewing shipments for completeness, putting price tags on the products, and placing the items in their appropriate shelf locations, excluding CII medications.
• Orders, labels, and counts stock of medications, chemicals, and supplies, and enters inventory data into the computer.
• Maintains the pharmacy by performing the following duties: cleaning pumps within 24 hours of return, filling pharmacy supplies, vacuuming, dusting/facing shelves, wiping countertops, cleaning sink and seating area, straightening counseling area, emptying trash and shredding bins, cleaning bathroom, cleaning hood and anteroom per requirements, etc.
• Keeps product shelves and counters neat and clean by checking items' expiration dates and removing expired and short-dated products monthly.
• Maintains regular and punctual attendance. Develops courteous and professional relationships with patients, customers, and co-workers.
• Works with the pharmacist to ensure proper Medicare DMEPOS paperwork is complete, provides appropriate product to the customer, and maintains accurate billing records.

Qualifications

• Must be enrolled as a full-time student in an accredited school of pharmacy.
• Must hold a valid state intern license if required by the state of employment.
• High school diploma or GED; strong science background; knowledge of the metric system and good math skills; familiarity with pharmacy terminology, medication names, and aseptic techniques desirable.
• Pharmacist interns must be registered with the Nebraska Board of Pharmacy.