Per Diem Pharmacy Intern: Mount Sinai Morningside

About the role

The Mount Sinai Health System is seeking a qualified Pharmacy Technician to join our team. This position involves preparing medications, compounding sterile and non-sterile products, dispensing controlled substances, and maintaining accurate records.

Responsibilities

• Compounds sterile and non-sterile products as per protocol, ensuring final verification by a pharmacist.
• Dispenses controlled substances, tax-free alcohol, and investigational new drugs under pharmacist supervision.
• Demonstrates ability to operate required equipment, such as unit-dose repackaging machines, total parenteral nutrition compounders, and laminar flow hoods.
• Maintains an adequate inventory of medications and supplies, checking for and removing expired medications from inventory.
• Audits controlled drug disposition records for patient care units and reports discrepancies and unusual use patterns to a manager or director.
• Maintains an accurate, current census, including cassette bin labels, for all assigned areas.
• Returns reusable medication to stock before the end of the shift.
• Accurately fills unit-dose cassettes and performs statistical counts of all doses dispensed.
• Conducts all required deliveries and other patient care rounds in a timely fashion.
• Obtains required signatures when conducting controlled substance deliveries.
• Assures effective exchange of unit-dose cassettes as per established schedules.
• Maintains a safe, clean working environment.
• Maintains stat box contents.
• Ensures posting of drug lists in the pharmacy, on the transfer carts, and at the patient care units.
• Conducts monthly inspections of nursing stations, instructing nursing personnel when necessary to correct deficiencies, and retrieving medications not included on floor stock lists.
• Assists the pharmacist in providing drug information and in profiling patient medications.
• Completes all required documentation and performs other Technician I and Technician II related functions.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years completed at an accredited college of pharmacy.
• Previous hospital pharmacy experience preferred.
• English proficiency, oral and written.
• Valid New York State Pharmacy Intern Permit required.