The class covers the following: 

• Pharmacy Technician responsibilities and duties in the retail and hospital setting, which include the core of assisting in the dispensing of prescriptions - (interpreting prescriptions, pharmacy calculations, customer service skills, and basics of third party adjudication)
• Pharmacy Law
  
• Drug Regulation and Control, and
  
• Pharmaceutics (routes and formulations, compounding, terminology, and how drugs work in the body)

The overall objectives of the course are:

• To train individuals entering into a career as a pharmacy technician to be successful in entering the work place
  
• To help prepare individuals to pass the certification exams (PTCB)
  
• To give individuals who are interested in pharmacy an understanding of the job duties and responsibilities of pharmacy technicians

Training Objectives:

• Describe the origin and history of pharmacy
• Know the requirements for training, competency, and certification of pharmacy technicians
• Understand laws and regulations regarding pharmacy practice
• Be familiar with the legal regulations of both prescription and OTC drugs
• Understand the basics of organ systems’ functions and how drugs affect them
• State the components of a prescription order
• Know the common pharmacy abbreviations and interpret prescription orders
• Know common measurement equivalents
• Be familiar with the top two-hundred drugs’ names and what they are used for
• Understand compounding principals
• Know the basics for working with parental medications, which also include

           •  Aseptic technique

           •  Clean rooms

           •  Laminar flow hood

 

• Be able to complete pharmacy calculations, which include

           •  Mixture dose
           •   IV flow rate
           •  Percents of specific component/drug in a mixture
           •  Conversions between different measurement units
           •  Children’s dosing
           •  Business calculations: usual and customary, discounts, gross and net profits