Certificates/Less-than-1-year Certificates in Pharmacy Technician + Assistant: A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of pharmacists, to prepare medications, provide medications and related assistance to patients, and manage pharmacy clinical and business operations. Includes instruction in medical and pharmaceutical terminology; principles of pharmacology and pharmaceutics; drug identification; pharmacy laboratory procedures; prescription interpretation; patient communication and education; safety procedures; record-keeping; measurement and testing techniques; pharmacy business operations; prescription preparation; logistics and dispensing operations; and applicable standards and regulations.
Prepares for employment in community, clinic and hospital pharmacies; emphasis on customer service, working in a pharmaceutical setting, health and safety guidelines, ethical and legal responsibilities, medical terminology, insurance billing, and drug distribution systems. Offered first 8 weeks of each term.
Prepares students for employment in a pharmacy. Theory and clinical preparation includes medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, pharmacy settings, duties and responsibilities of a pharmacy technician, pharmaceutical terms, abbreviations and symbols, metric and apothecary systems, drug requirements, record-keeping, dispensing prescriptions, knowledge of manufacturing, and packaging and labeling of drug products. Graduates will be qualified to...
This program provides students with the skills needed to become approved by the state of
California as a registered pharmacy technician. This program will prepare students with an
in-depth knowledge of Pharmacology. Students will become familiar with how pharmacies
function, gain an understanding of the laws and regulations governing the practice of
pharmacy, identification of drugs, routes of administration, dosage forms, storage
requirements,...
This comprehensive 50 hour course will prepare students to enter the pharmacy field and to take the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board‘s PTCB exam. Technicians work in hospitals, home infusion pharmacies, community pharmacies and other health care settings”working under the supervision of a register pharmacist. Course content included medical terminology specific to the pharmacy, reading and interpreting prescriptions and defining drugs by generic...
The Pre-Pharmacy Technician Program trains the student to work as a health care specialist under the supervision of a registered pharmacist to properly prepare and dispense medications, perform dosage calculations, maintain patient records/profiles and enter data into record systems.
The student must provide acceptable entry test scores (HOBET, SAT, or ACT), apply to Midlands Technical College, and complete a pre-admission interview.
This certificate program provides students with a foundation that will allow them to assume an immediate position as a pharmacy technician, and prepares them to take the National Pharmacy Technician Certification Board Exam. Unlike other health programs at Allegany College of Maryland, the Pharmacy Technician Certificate Program is not a selective or competitive admissions program. Students will receive theoretical and clinical experience that will...
Upon completion, students will be qualified to become a vital member of the Pharmacy Team. The role of the pharmacy technician continues to expand. Some of the responsibilities include interpreting prescriptions, reconstituting medications, bulk compounding and mixing of sterile parenteral and enteral products. All work is performed under the supervision of a Pharmacist. A certification of completion is awarded upon successful completion of the curriculum....
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