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Pharmacy Technician

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Our program provides you with strong academic and clinical backgrounds in the areas of:

  • Pharmacy administration
  • Pharmaceutical calculations
  • Anatomy and physiology
  • Digestive, respiratory and reproductive systems
  • Nutrition
  • Medical terminology
  • Pharmacology
  • Health care systems

The program helps develop strong customer service, communication and interpersonal skills needed to interact with patients, co-workers and healthcare professionals. Strong mathematical and organizational skills needed to manage inventories, count and measure medication, and use computers are provided. Upon graduating from the pharmacy technician program, students will be prepared to:

  • To provide the student with a sufficient knowledge base in pharmaceutical and medical terminology, abbreviations and symbols used in prescribing, dispensing, and documenting medications.
  • To prepare the student to perform the essential functions related to drug procurement and inventory control and to provide a working knowledge of manufacturing and packaging operations, including the physical and chemical nature of drugs used in a pharmacy, and the packaging and labeling requirements as well as manufacturing techniques used for drug dispensing
  • Demonstrate competence in performing pharmaceutical calculations, including conversions, working with pediatric dosages, parenteral and IV dosages, admixtures, and compounding dosages
  • To provide the student with a working knowledge of aseptic technique, parenteral admixtures, compounding procedures, and microbiology as it applies to disease and thse use of aseptic techniques in the health care field.

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