Pharmacy Intern
CVS Health - Sandersville, GA
posted about 2 months ago
About the position
Health is everything. At CVS Health, colleagues are committed to increasing access, lowering costs, and improving quality of care. Millions of times a day, we help people on their path to better health - from advising on prescriptions to helping manage chronic and specialty conditions. As a 3rd year pharmacy intern, you have a significant role in our company working as a part of the pharmacy team - delivering our purpose, modeling our values, and demonstrating genuine, authentic care for our patients. While working as a 3rd year pharmacy intern, under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist, you play a critical role in ensuring a safe and effective Retail Pharmacy work environment that delivers exceptional care to each patient.
Responsibilities
- Patient Safety
- Pharmacy Professional Practice
- Regulatory Requirements
- Quality Assurance
- Customer Service
- Inventory Management
- Workflow Management excluding final prescription verification
- Lead with Heart - display empathy and compassion for your patients, customers, caregivers, and colleagues on your team
- Seek new ways to grow, collaborate with others, and deliver better outcomes
- Align others around our purpose to bring your heart to every moment of your health and gain support and commitment
- Facilitate a team culture that promotes caring, energy, enthusiasm, and pride
Requirements
- Accepted into or actively enrolled in an ACPE accredited college or school of pharmacy
- 0-3 years relevant work experience
- Must possess or be in process of obtaining valid intern and/or technician licensure as required
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Complete all required training within state guidelines and required timeframe
- Ability to have regular and predictable attendance, including nights and weekends
- Be mobile and remain upright for extended periods of time
- Lift, scan, and bag items
- Finger Dexterity: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than whole hand or arm
- Reach overhead; able to stretch or reach out with the body, arms, and/or legs to grasp items
- Extend hand(s) and arm(s) multiple directions to place, move, or lift items
- Precision control: able to adjust machines to exact positions
- Stoop to a considerable degree and requiring full use of the lower extremities and back muscles to move items between low and high positions, including bending spine at the waist
- Visual Acuity: Close visual acuity to perform activities such as: transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, reading, visual inspection involving small parts
- Able to orally communicate information and instructions to colleagues and customers
- Occasional lifting of up to 20 lbs; exerting up to 20 lbs. of force occasionally and/or up to 10 lbs. of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects
Nice-to-haves
- Immunization eligibility
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Once state regulations are met, pharmacy interns should be striving to provide patient immunizations as this is an essential pharmacist function
