Job Description

This Pharmacy Intern will be responsible for:

• 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• Monitoring, restocking and rotating routine supplies, removing and replacing outdated products and processing related patient charges and credits.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.

• 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.

About Boston Children's Hospital

Boston Children's Hospital is a 395-bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care. As one of the largest pediatric medical centers in the United States, Children's offers a complete range of health care services for children from birth through 21 years of age.

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