Pharmacy Intern (Per Diem)
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MidState Medical Center
Meriden, CT, US
Summary
The Pharmacy Intern assists pharmacists with unit dose dispensing, I.V. additive preparation, and the distribution of medications throughout the hospital. They are also responsible for maintaining patient profiles, restocking emergency supplies, and ensuring all medications are properly barcoded.
Job Description
Location Detail: 435 Lewis Avenue-Midstate Med (10123)
Shift Detail: Pharmacy Intern position with every third weekend day shift and rotating holidays day shift.
Work where every moment matters.
Every day, more than 40,000 Hartford HealthCare colleagues come to work with one thing in common: Pride in what we do, knowing every moment matters here. We invite you to become part of Connecticut’s most comprehensive healthcare network.
Serving our community since 1998, MidState Medical Center is a vibrant and progressive organization with a genuine concern for our patients, community, and employee’s alike. We’ve earned top honors for quality stroke care, gold level recognition for organ donation, and employing leaders in the field of cardiovascular and pulmonary rehabilitation, providing the highest quality level of care.
Under the supervision and direction of the Pharmacist the Pharmacy Intern, assists in performing pharmaceutical functions which include units dose dispensing, I.V. additive preparation and other related procedures that require knowledge of pharmaceutical terminology. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Assists in the preparation and distribution of medications throughout the hospital which includes in-patient unit dose dispensing and out-patient dispensing.
• Performs computer activities to maintain patient profiles, entry of charges and credits and generation of unit dose fill lists
• Fills unit dose carts accurately and according to computerized lists
• Exchanges unit dose carts, including transfer of bulk items.
• Restocks crash cart medications, including documentation and follow through.
• Fills emergency boxes and stat boxes, including documentation, expiration date checking and follow through.
• Conducts patient care unit inspections
• Performs technical pharmaceutical functions related to the purchasing, receiving and distribution of drugs.
• Insures all medications are packaged with a bar code compatible with existing Pharmacy bar code technology
• Prepackages tablets, capsules and other dosage forms for in-patient and out-patient dispensing.
• Participates in the training and orientation of new Pharmacy personnel
• Under the direct supervision of a pharmacist, prepares sterile products, intravenous admixtures, and chemotherapeutic agents.
• Positively interacts with patients and other hospital guests to enhance the quality of case/service provided.
• Maintains confidentiality of patient information
Qualifications
Education Requirements
Currently enrolled in a PharmD Program
Minimum Requirements
Current State of Connecticut Intern Registration
Preferred Qualifications
At least one clinical rotation in a hospital setting
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With locations around the state, Hartford HealthCare offers exciting opportunities for career development and growth. Here, you are part of an organization on the cutting edge – helping to bring new technologies, breakthrough treatments and community education to countless men, women and children. We know that a thriving organization starts with thriving employees-- we provide a competitive benefits program designed to ensure work/life balance. Every moment matters. And this is your moment.
MidState Medical Center is a 156-bed acute-care hospital serving the communities of central Connecticut since 1998. The only hospital in the state to offer all private rooms, MidState has a long-standing reputation for high quality care and high patient satisfaction.
MidState offers a complete range of services including general and minimally invasive surgery, emergency medicine and urgent care, weight management, and state-of-the-art care dedicated to oncology, wound care and hyperbaric medicine , family birthing and maternal fetal medicine, sleep care, digestive health, pain management, neurosciences and cardiac care. Its satellite offices located in Meriden, Cheshire and Wallingford help bring more accessible outpatient care to those it serves.
MidState is part of Hartford HealthCare, Connecticut’s most comprehensive healthcare network.
Our fully integrated health system includes a tertiary-care teaching hospital, an acute-care community teaching hospital, an acute-care hospital and trauma center, three community hospitals, the state’s most extensive behavioral health network, a large multi-specialty physician group, a regional home care system, an array of senior care services, a large physical therapy and rehabilitation network and an accountable care organization.
Through its institute model, Hartford HealthCare offers the highest standards of care for cancer, heart and vascular services, neuroscience, orthopedics and urology.
Founded
1998
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Meriden, CT
MidState Medical Center is a 156-bed acute-care hospital serving the communities of central Connecticut since 1998. The only hospital in the state to offer all private rooms, MidState has a long-standing reputation for high quality care and high patient satisfaction.
MidState offers a complete range of services including general and minimally invasive surgery, emergency medicine and urgent care, weight management, and state-of-the-art care dedicated to oncology, wound care and hyperbaric medicine , family birthing and maternal fetal medicine, sleep care, digestive health, pain management, neurosciences and cardiac care. Its satellite offices located in Meriden, Cheshire and Wallingford help bring more accessible outpatient care to those it serves.
MidState is part of Hartford HealthCare, Connecticut’s most comprehensive healthcare network.
Our fully integrated health system includes a tertiary-care teaching hospital, an acute-care community teaching hospital, an acute-care hospital and trauma center, three community hospitals, the state’s most extensive behavioral health network, a large multi-specialty physician group, a regional home care system, an array of senior care services, a large physical therapy and rehabilitation network and an accountable care organization.
Through its institute model, Hartford HealthCare offers the highest standards of care for cancer, heart and vascular services, neuroscience, orthopedics and urology.
Founded
1998
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Meriden, CT
