Pharmacy Intern

Responsibilities

• Completion of a comprehensive training roadmap focusing on Key Learning Experiences (KLEs) that build aptitude in areas such as:
• Following company SOPs at each workstation to help Pharmacists and Technicians manage and improve patient health.
• Following pharmacy workflow procedures at each pharmacy workstation for safe and accurate prescription fulfillment.
• Contributing to positive patient experiences by showing empathy and genuine care, including creating heartfelt and personalized moments, offering immunizations, and providing compassionate care.
• Taking telephonic prescriptions from the prescriber and clarifying prescriptions or facilitating medication changes, where allowed by state regulation.
• Maintaining the highest level of self-awareness and providing in-the-moment coaching, training, and mentoring to pharmacy team members.
• Completing basic inventory activities, as permitted by law, and as directed by the pharmacy leadership team.
• Supporting additional patient health care services, such as immunizations, point-of-care testing, and volunteering at offsite clinics.
• Completing additional licensure and training requirements to obtain Technician Immunizer status.
• Monitoring for and responding to adverse reactions, and reporting adverse reaction events.
• Reviewing and collecting patient information, and tracking and documenting for each applicable patient.

Qualifications

• Accepted into, or actively enrolled in, an ACPE accredited college or school of pharmacy.
• Possess, or be in the process of obtaining, valid intern and/or technician licensure as required.
• Ability to complete required training within designated timeframe.
• Attention and Focus: Ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time, and pivot quickly from one task to another to meet patient and business needs.
• Communication Skills: Use and understand verbal and written communication to interact with patients and colleagues, and utilize active listening.
• Problem Resolution: Identify challenging patient or colleague interactions and choose the best course of action when faced with multiple options.
• Physical Demands: Be mobile and remain upright for extended periods of time, lift, scan, and bag items, reach overhead, stretch or reach out with the body, arms, and/or legs to grasp items, move fingers repetitively, pick, pinch, type, or otherwise work primarily with fingers, extend hand(s) and arm(s) multiple directions to place, move, or lift items, control precision, quickly adjust machines to exact positions, stoop to a considerable degree, requiring full use of the lower extremities and back muscles to move items between low and high positions, including bending spine at the waist, close visual acuity to perform activities such as: transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, reading, visual inspection involving small parts, occasionally lift of up to 20 lbs and/or exert up to 20 lbs. of force, frequently lift of up to 10 lbs and/or exert up to 10 lbs. of force, consistently lift and/or exert a negligible amount of force to move objects.