Job Details

In Pharmacy at Main Campus Children's of Alabama

Work schedule will be On-call/Flexi.

Summary:
06/20/2017

A Pharmacy Extern is responsible for responding to patient needs for medications and utilizing technical preparation skills to compound, manufacture, and assimilate the medications necessary for the operation of all pharmaceutical services at Children's Hospital of Alabama. A Pharmacy Extern must be able to work efficiently and accurately while following diversified departmental policies and procedures while under the supervision of a registered pharmacist. This practice will be governed by the standards of institutional hospital pharmacy as stated by the Alabama State Board of Pharmacy.

Other information:
Capable of obtaining a level of competency necessary to complete the following COA formal training programs: Aseptic Technique, USP <797>, USP <795>, and USP <800> Training Programs; Calculations and Computations for oral and IV compounding; Safe Handling of Cytotoxic Drugs; Automated Dispensing Machines; Code/Trauma Response

Credentials with Equivalent Qualifications:
Essential:
* AL Pharmacy Intern Extern

Education with Equivalent Qualifications:
Essential:
* Doctorate of Pharmacy

Experience with Equivalent Qualifications:

The Pharmacy Department operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to provide excellent pharmaceutical care to Children’s of Alabama Patients. Services include, compounding of sterile and non-sterile medication, pharmacokinetics, medication order verification, OR preference bags, hazardous medication dispensing and compounding, clinical pharmacy services, unit-dosing of medication, automatic dispensing machines (Pyxis), investigational study pharmacy, medication delivery and more. The pharmacy operates out of a central pharmacy located in the Benjamin Russell building. Decentralized services are provided by clinical pharmacists on the units and several pharmacy satellites (main campus OR, Children’s South, hematology/oncology clinic, Investigational Pharmacy). The pharmacy utilizes Epic, Epic Willow Inventory, bar code scanning, vertical carousels, and kit management software.