Pharmacy 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.
• Follows company policies and procedures including register performance, security issues, and confidentiality.
• Aids the pharmacist by receiving new written prescriptions or refill requests.
• Helps to verify that the following information is accurate and complete: date of birth, phone number, address, disease states, allergies, prescriber information, billing information, and the key components to a prescription.
• Accesses, inputs, and retrieves patient and prescription information into and from the computer and successfully, efficiently, and accurately bills insurance and generates a label for the 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 CII prescription needs to be dispensed as they fill all CII orders.
• Utilizes Kirby and AccuMed when available for increased accuracy.
• Prepares all compounds to fulfill waiting orders; this includes but is not limited to 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.
• 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, etc., 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 computer.
• Maintains inventory levels by following defined ordering practices for warehouse and approved outside vendors.
• Maintains the pharmacy including performing the following duties: clean pumps within 24 hours of return, fill pharmacy supplies, vacuum, dust/face, wipe countertops, clean sink and settee area, straighten counseling area, empty trash and shred bins, clean bathroom, clean hood and anteroom per requirements, etc.
• Checks items’ expiration dates and removes expired and short-dated products monthly.
• Maintains regular and punctual attendance.
• Develops courteous and professional relationships with patients, customers, and co-workers.
• Works with pharmacist to ensure proper Medicare DMEPOS paperwork is complete, provide appropriate product to the customer, and maintain accurate billing records.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

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 Iowa Board of Pharmacy.