Inpatient Pharmacy Intern

Site: The Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Corporation

Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.

Job Summary

All applicants must be pursuing a Pharmacist degree.

Summary Responsible for interdisciplinary patient care rounds, admission medication history, medication counseling, and patient education.

Does this position require Patient Care? No

Essential Functions

• Participates in interdisciplinary rounds.
• Works collaboratively with the treatment team to maximize individual patient outcomes.
• Performs medication history interviews, first-dose teaching, food-drug interaction counseling, discharge counseling, and assessments of patient education and medication adherence.
• Creates updated medication lists for patients upon discharge from a hospital stay or at the end of a clinic appointment.
• Counsels patients on prescription and over-the-counter medications and devices.
• Monitors medication therapies by performing profile reviews, interpreting laboratory values, and ensuring drug regimens are consistent with medication use guidelines and protocols.

Qualifications

Education

• High School Diploma required

• All applicants must be pursuing a Pharmacist degree.

• Can this role accept experience in lieu of a degree?

• No

• Licenses and Credentials

• Pharmacist Intern Massachusetts License required

Experience

• Pharmacy

Experience

• 0-1 year preferred

• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to learn computer and application skills as applicable to role.

• Ability to interact with and work around people.

• Ability to make judgments in demanding situations.

• Ability to react to frequent changes in duties and volume of work.

• Effective verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to listen empathetically.

• Ability to logically organize details.

• Additional Job Details (if applicable)

• Remote Type

• Onsite

• Work Location

• 1575 Cambridge Street

• Scheduled Weekly Hours

• 0

• Employee Type

• Per Diem

• Work Shift

• Rotating (United States of America)

• Pay Range

• $18.58 - $26.58/Hourly

• Grade

• 3

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• EEO Statement:

• 1460 Spaulding Hospital-Cambridge, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veteran’s Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants who require accommodation in the job application process may contact Human Resources.

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