Pharmacy Intern

About the Role

At Encompass Health, you will play a vital role in patients' recoveries, providing individualized, compassionate care. This is an opportunity to thrive in an environment built on support, advanced resources, and teamwork.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides inventory control, including maintenance in the pharmacy according to the drug formulary.
• Maintains formulary, including ordering, receiving, storage, and all necessary paperwork.
• Replaces medication, including dispense machine refills (24-hour supply), using a unit-dose system.
• Replaces floor stock items on a routine basis according to policy, including narcotic inventory.
• Maintains necessary paperwork for the pharmacy's reporting and tracking.
• Reviews pharmacy profiles and collects drugs dispensed to patients for accurate billing.
• Reconciles narcotics, including monitoring of doses administered according to medication.
• Manages Administration Record in the narcotics sign-out file.
• Ensures floor stock (medication and IVs) are maintained at appropriate par levels.
• Ensures emergency boxes are maintained in accordance with pharmacy policy.
• Maintains and completes the pharmacy inspection manual.
• Transfers pharmacy charges to the business office.
• Prioritizes orders based on drug schedule or necessity and delivers STAT orders promptly.
• Enters and fills all orders for verification by a pharmacist.
• Conducts daily rounds to check emergency drug boxes and med dispense machines.
• Handles all pharmaceutical-generated protected health information.

Qualifications

• Meets State board of pharmacy registration or licensure requirement in the state of employment.
• Enrolled in a professional degree program of a school or college of pharmacy that has been approved by the Board and satisfactorily progressing toward meeting the requirements for licensure as a Pharmacist; OR
• A graduate of an approved professional degree program of a school or college of Pharmacy or a graduate who has established educational equivalency by obtaining a Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Examination Committee™ (FPGEC®) Certificate, who is currently licensed by the Board of Pharmacy for the purpose of obtaining practical experience as a requirement for licensure as a Pharmacist; OR
• Qualified applicant awaiting examination for licensure or meeting Board requirements for re-licensure.