What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pharmacy Intern, Children's Outpatient Pharmacy position at UPMC?
UPMC Children's Outpatient Pharmacy is looking for a Pharmacy Intern to join their dedicated team!
This position is part of the Outpatient Pharmacy, Pint Size Prescriptions, team at CHP Main Campus. Pint Size Prescriptions is part of the UPMC Retail Pharmacy Network. We fill retail prescription orders for patients leaving the hospital and those visiting for clinic appointments.
This role will work evening shifts during the week (4:30pm - 7:30pm) and every other weekend (9:30am - 2:30pm). Students rotate every third Friday and every other weekend.
Responsibilities:
- Assists the pharmacist with medication distribution, delivering medication, refilling automated dispensing cabinets, and exchanging emergency medication carts.
- Participate in filling of medication orders maintaining patient profiles, performing prepackaging.
- Prepare IV admixtures/chemotherapy and controlled substance orders.
- Assists the pharmacist with medication review, including but not limited to computer order entry, monitoring allergies, enforcing formulary decisions, and evaluating drug interactions.
- Accurately completes departmental documentation and billing by the end of each scheduled shift in accordance with department procedures. Examples included, but are not limited to, dispensing and compounding records, refrigerator logs, hood-cleaning records, chemotherapy compounding records, patient/department billing, and controlled substance delivery records.
- Where applicable, complete clinical workload documentation (manual or electronic) by the end of each scheduled shift in accordance with Department procedures.
- Effectively uses information systems, robotics, and other applications to prepare medication labels and assist with dispensing medications.
- Demonstrate a service orientation in all interpersonal relations. Conveys a positive, professional image.
- Prepare drug information responses and medication use evaluations.
- Develops and maintains a clean, organized, and adequately stocked work environment.
- *Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors.
- *Performs other duties as assigned.
- Note: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned this job. They are not exhaustive lists of all duties, responsibilities, knowledge, skills, abilities and working conditions associated with the job.