Pharmacy Student

Key Responsibilities

• Develops familiarity with medications, including generic and trade names, methods of administration, usual dosages, usual dosage schedules, and conversions between metric and apothecary systems.
• Distributes automated dispensing cabinetry with appropriate dosage forms and monitors discharge and transfer lists, removing and transferring bins appropriately.
• Delivers medications along with appropriate labels.
• Repackages tablets, capsules, and liquid medication, operates the re-packaging machine, and assigns expiration dates as per policy.
• Handles and distributes controlled substances and investigational drugs.
• Prepares topical and irrigation solutions.
• Restocks floor stock/automated dispensing cabinetry.
• Checks for expired medications in the pharmacy and in automated dispensing cabinetry.
• Inventories and maintains stock levels in the unit dose area and satellites.
• Charges and credits medications appropriately in the computer system.
• Prepares and initiates worklists and labels, and assembles drugs and solutions to be compounded.
• Initiates procedures and demonstrates aseptic technique in compounding of parenteral admixtures in a laminar flow hood.
• Refills OR kits.
• Prepares OR-related items, cardioplegia solutions, and syringes through aseptic technique.
• Maintains stock in the OR pharmacy.
• Completes all OR-related charging/documentation.
• Demonstrates excellent proficiency in intravenous medication preparation.
• Prepares oral and intravenous medications for clinic patient use.
• Assists the pharmacist in the preparation of chemotherapeutic agents for clinic patients.
• Aides the pharmacist in the preparation of investigational medications in the clinic.
• Completes all oncology-related charging/documentation.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Basic familiarity with computers.
• Ability to navigate at a basic level within web-based applications.

Qualifications

• Vocational or Technical training required.
• Registration Pharmacy Student Intern required.
• 0-1 Years Related Work Experience Required.
• Enrolled in an accredited pharmacy degree program and have completed year 2 (Preferred).

Competencies

• Decision Making: Ability to make decisions guided by general instructions and practices requiring some interpretation. May make recommendations for solving problems of moderate complexity and importance.
• Problem Solving: Ability to address varied problems requiring analysis or interpretation of situations using direct observation, knowledge, and skills based on general precedents.
• Independence of Action: Ability to follow precedents and procedures. May set priorities and organize work within general guidelines. Seeks assistance when confronted with difficult and/or unpredictable situations. Work progress is monitored by supervisor/manager.
• 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 operations 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 throughout the hospital campus.