Pharmacy Technician

This course will teach students about the different roles and responsibilities of a pharmacy technician and guide you through the basic skills required to become engaged in the profession. Students will learn how to enter patient information, resolve online insurance claims, basic pharmacy calculations and much more.

This course covers the structure of major human body systems and how medications affect these systems. Students will learn strategies for using a broad array of medical terminology commonly used in health care professions. This course will also cover error prevention strategies, federal law for controlled substances and equivalencies of medication therapies.

This course covers the structure of major human body systems and how medications affect these systems. Students will learn event reporting procedures, issues that require pharmacist intervention and federal requirements for recalls and drug restricted programs.

This course covers pharmaceutical calculations that students will be practicing in the field as a pharmacy technician. This will include calculations used in non-sterile and sterile compounding to include alligations, IV flow rates, IV drip rates, percentage strengths and much more.

This course focuses on the student performance of simple pharmaceutical calculations for non-sterile and sterile compounding. Students will also learn the importance of patient safety, guidelines of safety for compounding and cleaning standards.

This Practicum consists of on-site pharmacy technician training. This will allow students to experience the duties of a pharmacy technician in a real-world environment. Students will work on reviewing for the national certification exam.

This Practicum consists of on-site pharmacy technician training. This course will provide the student with a guided review to prepare for the PTCB Certification Exam. During this course, the student will be able to prepare future goals for entering the field as a pharmacy technician.

This course covers the information and skills needed to succeed in academic studies, including study skills, academic goal setting, and time management. It will also cover relevant technology skills such as word processing and presentation as it relates to being a pharmacy technician.