Outpatient Pharmacy Intern

Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH); Boston (MA); On-site; USD 24,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Beth Israel Lahey Health in Boston seeks a Pharmacy Student Intern to support the department under supervision of a Clinical Pharmacist. The role involves preparing and distributing medications and IV solutions, and assisting with packaging, labeling, and inventory.

Candidates must be enrolled in an accredited pharmacy degree program (year 2) and have intern registration. Strong communication and basic computer skills are required.

Qualifications

• Enrollment in an accredited pharmacy degree program and completion of year 2.
• Registration as a Pharmacy Student Intern is required.
• 0-1 years related work experience preferred.
• Basic familiarity with computers and navigating web-based applications.

Responsibilities

• Develops familiarity with medications (generic/trade names, dosages, administration).
• Distributes medications via automated cabinets and manages discharge/transfer lists.
• Delivers medications with appropriate labels.
• Repackages tablets, capsules, and liquids; operates repackaging equipment; assigns expiration dates.
• Handles controlled substances and investigational drugs.
• Prepares topical and irrigation solutions.
• Restocks floor stock and automated dispensing cabinetry.
• Checks for expired medications and maintains unit dose stocks.
• Prepares and labels drugs for compounding; assembles solutions.
• Initiates aseptic technique for parenteral admixtures in laminar flow hood; aids in OR kit preparation.

Skills

Written communications

Oral communications

Knowledge

Team work

Customer service

Education

Pharmacy degree program, year 2 completed

Pharmacy Student Intern registration

Tools

Basic computer skills

Job description

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

The Pharmacy student is under the general supervision of a Clinical Pharmacist while working. He/she is under the specific supervision of the Pharmacy Supervisors and Clinical Pharmacist Supervisors for the technical functions in the operation of the Department of Pharmacy. The primary responsibility in accordance to established policies and procedures is to prepare and distribute medications and IV solutions.

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities:

• 1. Develops familiarity with medications: generic and trade names, methods of administration, usual dosages, usual dosage schedules and conversion between metric and apothecary systems.
• 2. Distributes automated dispensing cabinetry with appropriate dosage forms and monitors discharge and transfer lists and removes and transfers bins appropriately.
• 3. Delivers medications along with appropriate labels.
• 4. Repackages tablets, capsules and liquid medication, operate re-packaging machine and assigns expiration dates as per policy.
• 5. Handles and distributes controlled substances and investigational drugs.
• 6. Prepares topical and irrigation solutions.
• 7. Restocks floor stock/automated dispensing cabinetry.
• 8. Checks for expired medications in the pharmacy and in the automated dispensing cabinetry. Inventories and maintains stock levels in the unit dose area and the satellites.
• 9. Prepares and initiates worklist and labels and assembles drugs and solutions to be compounded.
• 10. Initiates procedure and demonstrates aseptic technique in compounding of parenteral admixtures in laminar flow hood.
• Refills OR kits. Prepares through aseptic technique OR related items, cardioplegia solutions and syringes.

Required Qualifications:

• 1. Vocational or Technical training in Complted 2nd ty in Pharmacy degree prgrm at accredited College of Pharmacy required.
• 2. Registration Pharmacy Student Intern required.
• 3. 0-1 years related work experience required.
• 4. Must be enrolled in an accredited pharmacy degree program and must have completed year 2.
• 5. Basic familiarity with computers. Ability to navigate at a basic level within web-based applications.

Competencies:

Written Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written English with internal and external customers.

Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and converse in English to communicate effectively with medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.

Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate full working knowledge of standard concepts, practices, procedures and policies with the ability to use them in varied situations.

Team Work: Ability to work collaboratively in small teams to improve the operations of immediate work group by offering ideas, identifying issues, and respecting team members.

Customer Service: Ability to demonstrate a positive attitude and respond to requests in a timely and respectful manner.

Physical Nature of the Job:

Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force frequently to move objects. Some elements of the job are sedentary, but the employee will be required to stand for periods of time or move through out the hospital campus

Pay Range:
$21.00 - $21.00

The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geographyof work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled