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Purpose: This curriculum is designed to prepare personnel to perform skilled duties and to assist the pharmacist-in-charge. Some examples of these duties include reading and interpreting written prescriptions and physicians' orders, computer information entry, preparation of prescription labels, and filling prescriptions and affixing labels for checking by the pharmacist. Other duties include ordering pharmaceuticals and supplies, customer assistance, cash register operation, answering telephones, and use of other routine equipment such as computer-assisted medication dispensing machines, computer-assisted intravenous (IV) preparations and electronic tablet/capsule counting machines in the retail, institutional, or hospital pharmacy. An understanding of state and federal pharmacy and drug laws is required. The curriculum includes learning experiences in class and in the laboratory, as well as in clinical, retail, institutional, and hospital pharmacies.
Students must comply with all General Admission Requirements for Annandale Campus Health Technology Programs. (See page 86.)
| Credits | ||||||
| 1st Semester | 2nd Semester | |||||
| HLT | 250 | General Pharmacology | 3 | |||
| HLT | 141 | Intro. to Medical Terminology or | ||||
| HIT | 113 Medical Terminology and | |||||
| Disease Processes I | 2-3 | |||||
| 1 HLT | 190 | Pharmacy Technician Laboratory and | ||||
| Clinical Practice I | 5 | |||||
| HLT | 261 | Basic Pharmacy I | 3 | |||
| MTH | 126 | Mathematics for Allied Health | 2 | |||
| HLT | 262 | Basic Pharmacy II | 3 | |||
| 1 HLT | 290 | Pharmacy Technician Laboratory and | ||||
| Clinical Practice II | 5 | |||||
| PSY | 125 | Interpersonal Relationships or | ||||
| PSY | 126 Psych. for Business/Industry or | |||||
| BUS | 201 Organizational Behavior | 3 | ||||
| SPD | 126 | Interpersonal Communication | 3 | |||
| Total Credits/Semester | 15-16 | 14 | ||||
Total credits for the Pharmacy Technician Career Studies Certificate = 29- 30.
1 Persons with at least one year full-time experience in pharmacy dispensing/assisting may apply to the program head to waive the clinical experience requirement.
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