Inpatient Pharmacy Intern
Spaulding Rehabilitation
Cambridge, MAFresher1h agovia LinkedIn
About the Role
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Corporation Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals to advance its mission. As a not-for-profit, it supports patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care.
Summary
Responsible for interdisciplinary patient care rounds, admission medication history, medication counseling, and patient education.
Essential Functions
- Participates in interdisciplinary rounds.
- Works collaboratively with the treatment team to maximize individual patient outcomes.
- Performs medication history interviews, first-dose teaching, food-drug interaction counseling, discharge counseling, and assessments of patient education and medication adherence.
- Creates updated medication lists for patients upon discharge from a hospital stay or at the end of a clinic appointment.
- Counsels patients on prescription and over-the-counter medications and devices.
- Monitors medication therapies by performing profile reviews, interpreting laboratory values, and ensuring drug regimens are consistent with medication use guidelines and protocols.
Requirements & Tech Stack
Work Location: Onsite
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 0
Employee Type: Per Diem
Work Shift: Rotating
Qualifications
- High School Diploma required
- All applicants must be pursuing a Pharmacist degree.
- Pharmacist Intern Massachusetts License required
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Ability to learn computer and application skills as applicable to role.
- Ability to interact with and work around people.
- Ability to make judgments in demanding situations.
- Ability to react to frequent changes in duties and volume of work.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to listen empathetically.
- Ability to logically organize details.