Pharmacy Technician Course (60 hours)
Allied's Pharmacy Technician Program Outline
The first part of your pharmacy technician training provides the fundamental knowledge required of today's skilled pharmacy technicians. You will learn about the essentials of medical history, pharmacy settings, drug regulation and administration, terminology, formulating and calculating prescriptions, biopharmaceutics, elements of patient interaction, pharmaceutical environments, and more.
You will receive:
- Morton's The Pharmacy Technician – 3rd Edition, 2007 textbook
- Study guide – includes detailed course instructions
- 8 comprehensive lessons – one to three chapters assigned for each lesson
- Problem practice exercises
- Multiples-choice quizzes
- Open-book, multiple-choice final exam
Course Objectives
In this course, you will learn how to:
- Recall the origins of pharmacy and health care
- Identify the role of a pharmacy technician
- Identify drug regulation, public safety, and how it relates to the pharmacy technician
- Identify pharmaceutical terminology as it relates to the organ system
- Identify pharmacy prescriptions abbreviations, information, and the fill process
- Identify calculations used in a pharmacy setting
- Identify the different types of packages that are used for unit dose medications
- Identify the different types of mail order pharmacy
- And more!
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).