Job Description
Position Summary
Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children Providing compassionate care to the children, teenagers and young adults of Central Florida for more than 30 years, Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children is located on the downtown Orlando campus and includes 156 licensed beds for specialized care for children as well as the Bert Martin's Champions for Children Emergency Department & Trauma Center, offering trauma care for children as the pediatric site of the Orlando Health ORMC Level One Trauma Center. State-of-the-art pediatric services are provided by a comprehensive staff that includes pediatric subspecialty physicians and a nursing team that is "Magnet" recognized for nursing excellence and high-quality patient care. The hospital also has earned national recognition for 12 consecutive years as a "Best Children's Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report and was included, together with Orlando Health ORMC, in the IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals® list for 2021.
Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children Pharmacy is seeking a
Pharmacist, Intern I . Pharmacist Intern II, perform functions of Pharmacist Intern I and a Pharmacy Technician III, in compliance with all policies and procedures for the Pharmacy Department and Orlando Health
Responsibilities
Essential Functions • Assists the pharmacists with duties as assigned.
• Develops and demonstrates competency in all aspects of health-system pharmacy practice, including pharmacotherapy, patient care,
distributive services, drug information, and practice management, under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist.
• Demonstrates the ability to plan, organize, execute, and monitor pharmaceutical care plans, under the direct supervision of a licensed
pharmacist.
• Develops and demonstrates the ability to perform pharmacotherapy, pharmacokinetic, and nutritional support consultations, under
the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist.
• Demonstrates the ability to operate the equipment required for pharmacy procedures, consistent with operating instructions, safety,
regulations, and policy and procedures.
• Performs the basic Pharmacy Technician procedures required by the assigned area consistent with scientific principles, policy, and procedures.
• Accurately assists the Pharmacist in all duties pertaining to the medication distribution, including proper aseptic techniques for admixture of various types of medication (e.g. chemotherapy) and functionally performing tasks/procedures associated with automated dispensing cabinets.
• Maintains USP 797 standards and other regulatory required documentation.
• Maintains safe handling and proper disposal requirements.
• Maintains the controlled substance vault and perpetual inventory and other documentation files depending on the needs of the department.
• Completes special projects as assigned.
• Maintains expertise in and actively covers technician services in a specialized practice area (e.g. medication history, acquisition controlled substance inventory management).
• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
• Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.
Other Related Functions • Demonstrates an understanding of safety, emergency and risk management procedures.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the hospital mission, personnel policies, philosophy, goals and objectives of Pharmacy and Orlando Health.
• Demonstrates familiarity with the general duties of the Pharmacy department.
• Demonstrates the ability to identify and utilize resource persons and departments for customer service and patient care based upon
need, availability and responsibility resources.
• Demonstrates the ability to operate the equipment required for pharmacy procedures consistent with operating instructions, safety regulations and policy and procedures.
• Demonstrates and understands various computer systems in operation in the department and at Orlando Health.
• Establishes and maintains an open communication process throughout the corporation that reaches patients, visitors, families, physicians and team members such that each feels that they are treated special each time.
• Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his or her assigned unit.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his or her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the unit/area/department policies and procedures.
• Participates in multidisciplinary patient care rounds in various patient care settings.
• Develops informal and formal presentation skills.
Qualifications
Education/Training • High School graduate.
• Currently registered in and attending an ACPE-Accredited or pending ACPE Accreditation, College or School of Pharmacy.
• Must be in 3rd or 4th professional year of pharmacy school or be in the 2nd professional year of pharmacy school with a minimum
of 1 year of hospital pharmacy technician experience prior to enrollment in pharmacy school.
• A foreign graduate who passed all the equivalent exams (FPGEE Exam, TOEFL Exam and TSE Exam) and is currently registered as
an intern with the Florida Board of Pharmacy.
Licensure/Certification Registered with the Florida Board of Pharmacy as a Pharmacy Intern.
Experience None.
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