Pharmacy Intern I

Boston Children's Hospital

Mar 27

Applications are closed

Internship
Part-time
Off-cycle Internship
Healthcare
Boston

Requirements

A Massachusetts Pharmacy Intern license.
Completed two years of education at an approved College/School of Pharmacy in which the candidate is currently enrolled.
Analytical skills to gather and interpret data in situations in which the information or problems are relatively routine.
Ability to understand and respond to written or verbal instructions. Incumbents must respond appropriately to instructions, questions or requests for information.

Responsibilities

Filling and delivering medication orders/prescriptions for hospital inpatients and outpatients.
Filling standing inpatient medication orders in individual cassettes following computer generated lists and fills new orders/prescriptions from physician orders.
Delivering cassettes and individual medications to units and collects new medication orders according to established procedures and schedules.
Preparing patient medications in accordance with established protocols, methods and techniques.
Preparing special dilutions of non-controlled and controlled substances as needed. Labels and records manufactured medications as required.
Receiving and filling pharmaceutical supply requests for nursing units, satellite locations and other areas.
Monitoring, restocking and rotating routine supplies, removing and replacing outdated products and processing related patient charges and credits.
Performing routine quality control and equipment maintenance tasks according to established procedures and schedules.
Answering, screening and routing telephone calls as needed. Refers any medical/drug information questions or administrative inquiries to the pharmacist.
Training to measure, mix and compound automated TPNs, irrigations, and chemotherapy drugs in specified volumes, dosages and concentrations.
Training to prepare research study medications as needed. Labels and records manufactured medications as required.

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Boston Children's Hospital is a 404-bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care. As one of the largest pediatric medical centers in the United States, Boston Children's offers a complete range of health care services for children from birth through 21 years of age. (Our services can begin interventions at 15 weeks gestation and in some situations we also treat adults.) We have approximately 25,000 inpatient admissions each year and our 200+ specialized clinical programs schedule 557,000 visits annually. Last year, the hospital performed more than 26,500 surgical procedures and 214,000 radiological examinations. Our team of physicians and nurses has been recognized by a number of independent organizations for overall excellence, and we're proud to share some notable examples with you here.