Pharmacy Intern

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Richmond (KY); On-site; USD 25,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plan options

Personalized health plan analysis

Job summary

Baptist Health in Kentucky seeks a Pharmacy Intern PRN for day shifts in a fast-paced hospital setting. The role supports medication preparation, dispensing, and patient safety across inpatient units.

You will gain experience under pharmacist supervision, handle sterile and non-sterile compounding per USP guidelines, and contribute to inventory and training of new staff.

Qualifications

• Registration as a Pharmacist Intern with the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy within 30 days of hire.
• No prior pharmacy experience required.
• Less than High School education acceptable per role requirements.

Responsibilities

• Adheres to infection control policies to maintain a safe pharmacy.
• Delivers medication accurately and timely to units.
• Fills stock orders for inpatient/outpatient; labels medications per guidelines.
• Prepares non-sterile compounding per USP 795; handles sterile compounding per guidelines.
• Trains new staff and oversees training of students and residents.
• Works on inventory control and cost containment of compounded products.
• Performs environmental testing of the sterile compounding area.

Job description

Summary Job Description: Pharmacy Intern PRN - DAYS

The pharmacy department works to achieve optimal medication use and patient outcomes in a collaborative, patient-focused environment. Pharmacy is responsible for the storage, preparation (including sterile compounding), distribution, and dispensing of medications 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Pharmacy utilizes automated dispensing cabinets and barcoding to enhance patient safety and operational efficiency. Inpatient pharmacy clinical services involve pharmacists working directly with healthcare teams to optimize patient drug therapy by providing drug information and therapeutic monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Adheres to infection control policies, maintaining a safe and clean pharmacy.
• Delivers medication accurately and timely to appropriate units.
• Fills stock orders, inpatient and outpatient orders within state and federal laws.
• Packages and labels medication per department guidelines.
• Performs station inspections, orders, checks in, and stocks medications.
• Restocks returned medication and emergency boxes and monitors waste.
• Orders necessary supplies to maintain appropriate inventory.
• Maintains working knowledge of regulatory bodies and laws for compounding.
• Prepares non-sterile compounding in accordance with USP 795.
• Handles controlled substances following pharmacy policies.
• Performs necessary calculations accurately.
• Familiarity with medication formulary and standard abbreviations.
• Prepares sterile compounds (hazardous and non-hazardous) in accordance with guidelines and regulations.
• Identifies stock needed for compounding sterile products, orders supplies, and maintains inventory.
• Trains new staff, oversees training of new staff, students, and residents.
• Works on cost containment of compounded sterile products.
• Performs environmental testing of the sterile compounding environment.

Requirements

• Less than High School.
• No Experience Required.
• Registration as a Pharmacist Intern with Kentucky Board of Pharmacy (KY hospitals) within 30 days of hire date if you are a new registrant.
• If previously registered, you must have registration upon hire.

Benefits

• Preventive Plan Retirement Plans Flimp Decisions - Flimp Decisions will help you pick the best value plan option given your expected medical needs.
• The proprietary algorithm provides a personalized financial analysis and recommendation, considering both premium and expected out-of-pocket cost (copays, etc.), as well as other important plan features.

Company Overview

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law.

Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRMISSION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

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