Pharmacy Intern

Summary: Kaiser Permanente Northwest is seeking a Pharmacy Intern to consult with health care practitioners and establish high quality patient drug therapy plans. The role involves monitoring patients, ensuring safety in drug therapy, and supporting continuous quality improvement within the pharmacy department. Responsibilities: - Consults with health care practitioners to establish high quality patient drug therapy plans and outcomes - Monitors patients to insure therapeutic outcomes and minimize adverse drug effects - Consults patients in a professional and efficient manner to ensure patient understanding of drug therapy plans and outcomes - Contacts and confers with the prescriber in a timely manner to clarify and answer questions regarding drug product selection to facilitate appropriate patient outcomes - Serves as a role model by demonstrating a contemporary attitude and focusing on patient care outcomes - Accurately reviews, interprets, and fills prescriptions/orders to ensure patient safety - Accurately compounds and prepares medications or supervises same - Improves patient care outcomes be developing knowledge and skills in new areas of pharmacy practice as they arise through literature review, continuing education, and collegial sharing of information - Demonstrates knowledge of department mission statement and objectives by assisting in development and achievement of location specific goals - Demonstrates a complete understanding and complies with all pharmacy department and location policies and procedures concerning the responsibilities of a pharmacist and support personnel - Mixes IV additive solutions and chemotherapy using aseptic technique - Monitors, surveys, and inspects facility medication storage sites to ensure safe, appropriate drug storage - Maintains a cost conscious attitude in the daily function of the pharmacy - Uses reference materials or alternative sources of information when necessary - Maintains a professional appearance, observes the suggested departmental dress code and wears identification badge - Maintains a professional attitude and image; leads by professional example - Attends to personal affairs so as not to interfere with the work schedule - Maintains cleanliness of self and work area - Demonstrates good judgment in the ability to organize and assist in directing workflow to maintain appropriate service levels - Demonstrates ability to set goals, plan, organize, and take tasks to completion - Demonstrates consistent ability to be a productive employee - Answers phone calls as necessary - Exercises independent judgment within the limits of authority - Influences others to strive towards location and departmental objectives - Maintains current knowledge of and complies with state and federal laws, rules and regulations - Demonstrates knowledge and support for continuous quality improvement programs in the location, department, and region - Demonstrates a complete understanding and complies with established regional employee relations policies and procedures - Demonstrates working knowledge of inventory control principles to establish/ensure appropriate cost effective asset management - Demonstrates working knowledge of professional practice standards - Demonstrates knowledge of Kaiser Permanente pharmacy benefit structure - Maintains a contemporary working knowledge of Kaiser Permanente automated systems - Communicates appropriate information regarding formulary and target drug alternatives and is effective in increasing provider compliance and member acceptance to assure appropriate drug utilization - Consults with appropriate personnel in mattes of uncertainty - Makes informed, rational, and timely decisions - Perform other duties as requested Required Qualifications: - Enrolled and in good standing with accredited School of Pharmacy - High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) required - Pharmacy Intern License (Oregon) required at hire Required Skills: Pharmacy Intern License, Pharmacy practice standards, Aseptic technique, IV admixture compounding, Medication storage management, Inventory control principles, Pharmacy benefit structure knowledge, Automated pharmacy systems, Drug therapy consultation, Prescription review, interpretation, Medication compounding, state, federal pharmacy laws, judgment, Goal setting, Productivity, Planning, Decision making