Legacy Health
Location
Tualatin, OR | United States
Job description
As a pharmacy intern, your compassion for others is felt in simple ways that make a huge impact: spending time to explain a medication, asking how a patient is feeling, checking with pharmacists and other health care providers to make sure patient pharmacy care is running smoothly. Your concern for patients helps to fulfill the Legacy mission of making life better for others.
The Legacy Internship Program will provide mentoring, support, and development of critical thinking skills for pharmacy interns with an interest in health-system pharmacy. Other objectives include:
o Offer opportunities for leadership, project management, and shadowing in clinical areas to help nurture interests and strengthen knowledge.
o Enhance written and oral communication skills by providing opportunities for presentations and medication use evaluations.
o Provide staffing experience in the inpatient setting with a focus on operations (e.g. IV admixture; compounding; triaging medication needs for hospitalized patients; and management of automatic dispensing cabinets on the units). Staffing expectations include every other weekend working technician shifts as well as working over holiday and summer breaks, (TBD)
o Provide staffing experience in transitions of care, including medication history evaluations and medication counseling depending on site need.
Position to start May 2024. Preferred candidates are Students who have completed their 1st or 2nd year of pharmacy school
The pharmacy intern is responsible for the safe and appropriate use of medications through the provision of comprehensive pharmaceutical care, under direct supervision of a pharmacist.
Education:
Currently enrolled student of accredited School of Pharmacy
LEGACY’S VALUES IN ACTION:
Follows guidelines set forth in Legacy’s Values in Action.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disabled
Current applicable state Pharmacy Intern License (PHRM IN) required.
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