Course Details

This course serves as an introduction to the pharmacy technician profession, pharmacy technician roles, and the different types of pharmacies within the healthcare delivery system. Students are introduced to state and federal pharmacy practice laws, and the pharmacists' patient care process. Students learn the concepts of pharmacology, medications, and calculations needed to ensure patient safety.

Pharmacy Technician Math examines basic mathematic skills and math concepts that are related to the pharmacy industry. During this course, you will study systems of measurement, formulas, intravenous flow rates, and other calculations used in the pharmacy industry. Upon completing this course, students will have a strong foundation in required mathematics as well as an introduction to the terminology and abbreviations used in pharmaceutical occupations.

This course covers skills necessary for working in community pharmacy settings. Students will perform hands-on skill simulations including data entry, prescription processing, billing, fulfillment, inventory management, customer service, and patient safety.

This course covers skills necessary for working in institutional pharmacy settings. Hands-on skill simulations are focused on institutional pharmacy responsibilities including sterile compounding and aseptic technique, hazardous drug management, unit dosing and dispensing, patient safety, and communication with hospital staff.

Job Seeking Skills explores how to prepare and successfully apply to potential career opportunities. During this course, you will be presented with essential job-seeking skills needed to find gainful employment.

Pharmacy Comprehension provides firsthand experience in the major fields of pharmacy. During this course, you will review administrative aspects of pharmacy, safety components, and a deeper dive into the components of pharmacy that have already been covered (community pharmacy and institutional pharmacy). Students will fill multiple prescriptions from start to finish, practice customer service skills, learn about STAT medications, demonstrate more complex scenarios regarding proper aseptic technique while working on or within laminar flow hoods, efficiently filling an IV bag, and properly compounding nonsterile medications. In this course, students will study and then demonstrate expertise via lab pass-offs and role-playing in the varying pharmacy fields.

Students in this course demonstrate their abilities to function as pharmacy technicians in industry settings. This experience takes place under the supervision of a pharmacist or experienced pharmacy technician, and includes a combination of skills-practice and evaluation.

The Pharmacy Technician program prepares students to support pharmacists by performing a wide range of practice-related duties for community, institutional, compounding, long-term care, mail-order, and other pharmaceutical settings. Students learn the most common medications, calculate dosages, process prescriptions, bill third-party insurance, learn aseptic techniques, and prepare sterile and non-sterile compounded medications. Students receive extensive hands-on training in the lab area using advanced pharmacy technology.