Pharmacy Technician 

The Pharmacy Technician program is designed to prepare students to work with, and perform tasks delegated by, a licensed pharmacist. This course will instruct on the appropriate conduction of pharmacy inventory, assisting the pharmacist, helping customers, and in some cases, compounding medications. This program is designed to also provide students with theoretical knowledge, as well as hands-on skills and professional attributes required to entry level positions as pharmacy technicians.

 

Students can expect to receive knowledge on handling patient questions about prescription information and health concerns, updating patient profiles and insurance documents, delivering medicine to nursing staff, interpreting patient charts, and other customer service assignments.

 

Trainees will be able to demonstrate the standard techniques and procedures required of pharmacy technicians for pharmacy operations, including aseptic operations, medication transcriptions, metric/apothecary conversions, drug dispensation, record keeping, and patient profiling. Under professional guidance trainees will gain the ability to list and explain all major classifications of drugs and understand their indications, therapeutic effects, side effects, dosing recommendations, routes of administration, and mechanisms of action. 

 

The goal of the program is for trainees to be able to interact with pharmacists, customers, and business associates, displaying professional skills, appearance, and ethics in a work-experience setting.

 

At the completion of the program, students are eligible to sit for the American Allied Health national certificate exam