Pharmacology Course (30 Hours)
Learn Pharmacology Principles That Reinforce Your Pharmacy Technician Career!
Please note: This course is available as a standalone course or as part of the Professional Pharmacy Technician Program.
Enhance your pharmacy technician training with Allied's online Pharmacology Course. In addition to a thorough review of basic pharmacology principles, you will learn monographs on the common drugs and prescriptions, how to differentiate among drug classifications, terminology spelling conventions and pronunciations.
With Allied's Pharmacology Course, you will also have the opportunity to grasp the clinical implications and contraindications for each body system, with special emphasis on children, end-of-life care, substance abuse, herbal/alternative drug, pregnant and nursing women and more.
This course can also serve as CE for the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) and the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC).
You Will Receive
- Online pharmacy technician course
- Introduction to Pharmacology textbook
- Nine modules
- Problem practice exercises
- Multiples-choice quizzes
- Open-book, multiple-choice final exam
Pharmacology Course Objectives
In this course, you will learn how to:
- Indicate the methods used in gene and targeted therapies
- Identify the drug groups that affect the digestive system
- Define general terms related to pharmacology
- Identify drug addiction
- Recognize the fundamental principles used in computing decimals
- Identify agents used to treat diseases and conditions of the skins and mucous membranes
- Name various pharmaceutical preparations
- Differentiate among the drugs used to treat respiratory disorders
- Identify the drug groups that affect the digestive system
- Differentiate among the methods of administration such as oral sublingual, inhaled, parenteral, intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular and intravenous
- Utilize accepted drug dosage abbreviations accurately
Get started with a school that has the right credentials. Allied Schools
is nationally accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance
Education and Training Council (DETC).