Full Description

Contact Hours: 160  |  CEUs: 16

You will complete three, 6-week modules of study with a one week break in-between modules. This means you will complete the program in 20 weeks!

All weekly assignments are completed on-line and most are instantly graded. Those assignments that need personal grading from the instructor are automatically submitted to the instructor.

Your instructors are always available by email to answer your questions. Each student also has access to live, technical support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!

Using state-of-the-art training techniques, computer technology and teaching methods we are able to deliver absolutely the best course to our students. Our instructors make learning these subjects fun and easy! Here are descriptions of just some of the topics you will study.

• Pharmacology – You will learn the most commonly used classes of medications, what conditions they are used to treat and how they work in the body.

• Anatomy and Physiology – Learn about the basic anatomy of all the organ systems of the body, what these structures do and how they are affected by disease.

• Pharmacy Law and Ethics – Study and explore legal issues surrounding confidentiality, negligence and liability for medical personnel. Learn how to control and maintain narcotic inventories. You will also read about historic pieces of legislation that have shaped the field as we know it today.

• Medical Terminology – Often, Medical Terminology can seem like a foreign language, but you will find this subject fascinating and easy to learn. We will show you simple ways to learn and decipher medical terminology describing disease states, anatomy and drug information.

• Pharmacy Practice – Explore available career options to Pharmacy Technicians and gain an overview of the field. You will also learn generalized pharmacy knowledge that is essential to any practice setting, such as how to read prescriptions, etc.

Your student supplies will be shipped to your door by UPS. You will find a large box on your doorstep filled with everything you need to take part in the Pharmacy Technician Career Training Program. Open up the box and you will discover your basic Anatomy & Physiology textbook as well as your Pharmacology textbook. Further down, you will find module specific, binders to organize your course reading materials, etc. Keep looking, there are also pens, highlighters, a calculator and a set of 250 Drug Memorization Phlash™ Cards, complete with pronunciations! As a bonus, all of our students also receive, free of charge, the National Certification Review Manual and our Exam Prep Phlash™ Cards. The 339-page manual and 100 handy, pocket-sized flash cards are your guides to passing the National Certification Exam for Pharmacy Technicians! Everything you see here is included in your student supply box.

Outcomes:

As a Pharmacy Technician, you will have more career opportunities than you can imagine! Here are just a few of the opportunities and practice settings available to Pharmacy Technicians. No matter who you are, you can find the perfect practice setting for your individual tastes and preferences.

• Chain Retail Pharmacies – You can work in a large retail facility with stores all across the country. These technicians have a lot of patient interaction and work very closely with pharmacists and doctor’s offices. These pharmacies will keep you busy filling prescriptions, obtaining refills for your patients and maintaining your patients’ medication histories and profiles. The benefit packages are usually very generous with paid vacations, opportunities for overtime and health insurance.

• Independent Retail Pharmacy – These are small, independently owned pharmacies. If you like patient interaction, this may be the practice setting for you. Chances are, you will not be as busy as you would in a chain, retail setting, which gives you the opportunity to get to know your patients on a first name basis! You may also have the opportunity for such specialties as compounding or packaging for home health care facilities.

• Out-Patient Hospital Pharmacy – This setting is similar to a retail pharmacy setting because the technicians have a lot of direct patient interaction and spend a lot of time filling prescriptions. These technicians fill prescriptions for patients that are going home from the hospital. Often, they will fill prescriptions for the employees of the hospital, as well. Because these technicians work within a hospital, there are often opportunities to become cross-trained in the In-Patient Pharmacy, within the hospital.

• Hospital Pharmacy – You may want to work in a hospital pharmacy. You will not have much patient interaction, rather, your contact will be primarily with pharmacists, doctors and nurses. There are typically many technician positions within a hospital and technicians are generally cross-trained in most of these positions. In smaller hospitals, these tasks may all be performed by a handful of technicians and in larger facilities each position may be the responsibility of one or two technicians.

Assessment:

Evaluation of student performance will be based upon the following criteria:

• Weekly homework assignments = 1/3 of subject grade;

• Weekly quizzes = 1/3 of subject grade;

• Final exams = 1/3 of subject grade.