Pharmacy Intern - Per Diem

Montefiore Health System•New York, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Under direct supervision of a pharmacist and in accordance with specific and detailed instructions, this role dispenses and compounds prescribed medications for patient care in keeping with New York State Law. The intern will package, label, manufacture, and distribute pharmaceuticals in all areas of the department, including inpatient drug distribution, ambulatory services, sterile product preparation, and service to other departments. Responsibilities include reviewing and monitoring medications and orders written by clinicians to determine safety and efficacy, answering drug information questions, inventory control, patient care area inspections, replenishing emergency boxes, and ensuring the safe and appropriate patient use of drugs, and collection of clinical information. The role also involves performing other related duties and utilizing automated and computerized technology as required.

Requirements

High School diploma/GED.
Must be enrolled as a full time student in an accredited school of pharmacy and graduating in 2027 or 2028.
Completed first professional year of pharmacy school.
Eligible to receive a NYS pharmacy intern permit.

Responsibilities

Assist pharmacist(s) with interpretation of medication orders to ensure accurate doses and frequencies.
Use clinical information systems for retrieval or review of patient information, report generation, and label printing.
Communicate with other healthcare personnel.
Collect patient specific clinical information, age, weight, height, laboratory data, diagnosis or indications.
Prepare, label, and deliver patient medication cassettes and unit doses to provide drug therapy.
Prepare sterile and non-sterile products and parenteral solutions, including TPN, syringes, and pediatric syringes according to protocol or worksheet for pharmacist verification.
Use automated dispensing cabinets for medication refill, information review, loading, report printing, refills pockets accurately, uses scanner, repairs pockets and pharmacy console for information review and report generation.
Maintain accurate files, statistics, orders, reports and records pertaining to medication use and requests.
Prepare and deliver controlled substances, load or unload inventory from automated dispensing cabinets, enter requests into business information system, accept outdated inventory, complete controlled drug records and ensure appropriate signatures are received.
Maintain an inventory of drugs and supplies in assigned work area, ensuring proper security and storage, checks routinely for outdated or unusable inventory, returns all unused medications to stock and maintains work area and entire pharmacy in clean and orderly condition.
Assist customers at door/windows and answer telephone politely and professionally.
Record daily workload statistics.
Deliver medications.
Perform activities with the manufacturing, packaging and labeling of medications including unit dose packaging or oral solids, liquid and bulk packages.
File paperwork including fill lists, packaging records, prescriptions, and medication orders appropriately.
Fill ambulatory prescriptions under the supervision of the pharmacist, submit claims and verify payment with PBMS.
Operate carousel technology, pull medication for new orders, automated dispensing cabinet refills and fill lists, restock medication received from wholesaler and returns from patient care areas, run stock out reports, transfer medication from the storeroom, perform cycle counts to ensure accurate inventory levels and expiration date checking.