Pharmacist Graduate Intern

Responsibilities

• Prepare 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.
• Fulfills register performance, security issues, and confidentiality as per company policies.
• Aids the pharmacist by receiving new written prescriptions or refill requests, verifying information, and referring 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 Dangerous Substance (CII) prescription needs to be dispensed.
• Prepares all compounds to fulfill waiting orders, including weighing/measuring chemical, preparing equipment/supplies for chemical use, and 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.
• Answers the telephone within two rings and handles requests within their job description including refill requests, new prescriptions, and general questions.
• 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 computer.
• Maintains inventory levels by following defined ordering practices for warehouse and approved outside vendors.
• Maintains the pharmacy including performing the following duties: cleaning pumps within 24 hours of return, filling pharmacy supplies, vacuuming, dusting/face, wiping countertops, cleaning sink and settee 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 and “faces” shelves by moving items to the front and arranging and stacking them.
• Checks items’ expiration dates and removes expired and short-dated products monthly.

Qualifications

• Must be a recent graduate from an accredited school of pharmacy.
• Must hold a valid state intern license if required by the state of employment.
• Must have a high school diploma or GED; studying pre-pharmacy or pharmacy, strong science background; knowledge of the metric system and good math skills; familiarity with pharmacy terminology, medication names, and aseptic techniques are desirable.
• Pharmacist interns must be registered with the Iowa Board of Pharmacy.