PRN Pharmacy Intern - Ashland

The Pharmacy Intern is an advanced technician-level position that involves performing pharmacy functions under the direct supervision of a pharmacist. Duties include patient care rounds, medication counseling, drug information, and more.

Requirements

• Customer Service: Provides patients with information concerning prices, refills, pharmacy policies and insurance as requested.
• Completes duties of a pharmacist under direct supervision: Participate in interdisciplinary rounds, work collaboratively with treatment team, and more.
• Performs medication history interviews, first dose teaching, food-drug interaction counseling, and discharge counseling.
• Counsels patients on prescription and over-the-counter medications and devices.
• Monitors medication therapies through performing profile reviews, interpreting laboratory values, and ensuring drug regimens are consistent with medication use guidelines and protocols.
• Assesses patient’s progression to achieving desired medication treatment goals.
• Develops and recommends appropriate therapeutic plans, identifies and resolves drug-related problems, communicates to other health care team members, follows through, and documents in the electronic record.
• Reviews medication orders for appropriate dose, duration, frequency, dosage form, indication, and drug interactions.
• Performs pharmacokinetic monitoring.
• Retrieves, evaluates, and provides drug information to health care providers, answering general and patient-specific drug information questions.
• Promotes health, wellness, and disease prevention.
• Establishes and interprets patient information – active problem list, past medical history, physical exam data, laboratory data, hospital course, medication history, medication profile, pharmacokinetic evaluation.
• Applies federal and state legal standards surrounding medication use.
• Understands the process and prepares accurate extemporaneous compounded products.
• Prepares applicable vaccinations, confirms appropriateness through patient profile review and the Ohio Impact Statewide Immunization Information System (ImpactSIIS) Web application, and utilizes appropriate vaccination preparation skills.
• Administers vaccinations when applicable.
• Performs computer order entry and claim adjudication.
• Teaches, evaluates, and provides direct feedback to trainees and entry-level students completing IPPE rotations.
• Maintains Protected Health Information (PHI) for patients and complies with all policies and standards.