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, offering to counsel, fielding medical questions, and soliciting information on a patient's medical history.
  • Taking telephonic prescriptions from the prescriber, clarifying prescriptions, and 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, such as accurately putting away medication deliveries and completing cycle counts, returns-to-stocks, waiting bin inventories, etc.
  • Supporting immunizations, including completing additional licensure and training requirements to obtain Technician Immunizer status, educating patients about the importance of vaccines, and reviewing and collecting patient information.
• Increasing responsibility in ensuring the safety and effectiveness of operations in the pharmacy, including managing and improving patient health, fulfilling prescriptions, and providing compassionate care.

Qualifications

• Accepted into, or actively enrolled in, an ACPE accredited college or school of pharmacy.
• Possession, or being 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, pivot quickly from one task to another, and confirm prescription information and label accuracy.
• Customer service and team orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people, responding appropriately to patients' reactions, and communicating effectively with patients and colleagues.
• Mathematical reasoning: Ability to use math to solve problems, such as determining the total number of tablets to dispense.
• Problem resolution: Identifying challenging patient or colleague interactions and choosing the best course of action.
• Physical demands: Be mobile and remain upright for extended periods, 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, control precision, quickly adjust machines to exact positions, stoop to a considerable degree, and extend hand(s) and arm(s) multiple directions to place, move, or lift items.