Pharmacy Intern - UPMC Shadyside
About The Position
UPMC Shadyside Hospital is seeking pharmacy students eager to gain hands-on experience in an inpatient setting. This casual intern position offers valuable training in pharmacy operations, including automation, dispensing, delivery, IV room, narcotic processes, and satellite pharmacies. Interns will have project time and the opportunity to shadow a Unit Base Pharmacist in their P-3 year. The internship provides a challenging environment to develop operational and clinical skills in the field of pharmacy, under the guidance of the Pharmacy Manager, Director, and Staff Pharmacist, while adhering to state and federal regulations, Joint Commission Standards, and hospital policies.
Requirements
- Good standing in an accredited School of Pharmacy, entering P1 year or above.
- Good communication skills.
- Good computer skills.
- Pennsylvania State Board of Pharmacy Intern License required.
- Act 34 clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in an inpatient pharmacy setting.
- Familiarity with pharmacy automation, robots, dispensing systems, IV room procedures, and controlled substance handling.
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.
- Prepare drug information responses and medication use evaluations.
Benefits
- Hands-on experience in an inpatient pharmacy setting.
- Opportunity to shadow a Unit Base Pharmacist.
- Development of operational and clinical skills.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
Associate degree
