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Program Overview
We provide a top training program that helps you step into this fast-growing healthcare job. As a pharmacy technician, you'll work with pharmacists and other health workers. You might work in a retail pharmacy or a healthcare system. Our online pharmacy technician training program teaches many important topics.
You'll learn about medicine orders, how a pharmacy runs, and how to care for patients. You'll also learn to handle insurance claims, help give out medications, and provide great service to patients.
After finishing our pharmacy tech program in Richmond, you'll be ready to take the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board Exam (PTCB) and or NHA Board Exam EXCPT.
This certificate is recognized all over the country and shows you're a skilled pharmacy technician. With this certificate, you'll have more job options and chances to advance your career.
Basic knowledge needed to understand the function of a pharmacy technician, How to prepare, order and stock prescription medications, Patient and Dosage Forms and Routes of Administration, Community and Institutional Pharmacy Settings. Top 200 Drugs
IV Flow Rates, Compounding Drugs, Brand and Generic Prescription Drugs
400 Total Program Clock Hours
180 Didactic Clock Hours
80 Simulation Hours
140 Clinical Hours
Program Benefits
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Courses
This is a course all about becoming a Pharmacy Technician. You will learn you how to handle prescriptions and explain the laws that affect pharmacies.You will also learn about your role as a Pharmacy Technician and the different ways medicines can be given. We'll teach you how to mix medicines and keep everything clean and germ-free. We'll also talk about the difference between brand-name and generic drugs.You'll also get to learn about SIG codes, a kind of short language used in prescriptions. Lastly, we'll show you how to handle billing and insurance claims for prescriptions. This course will give you everything you need to know to get started as a Pharmacy Technician.
This is a course about the important math you need to know as a Certified Pharmacy Technician. You will learn how to how to use formulas and conversions for pharmacy calculations. Explain the rules of the metric system and the basic units of weight, volume, and length. Describe common equivalents in the metric system. Discuss the apothecary system. Explain the household system. Convert metric measures to their equivalents in the other systems.
This clinical experiential course provides students with hands on experience under the guidance of a Pharmacist at Community Pharmacy. Pre-Requisites (Basic Pharmacy and Pharmacy Calculations)
Learning Modules
- History of Medicine
- Pharmacy Law, Ethics, and Regulatory Agencies
- Pharmacy Technicians: Competencies, Associations, Settings & Patient Interaction
- Patient & Medication Administration
- Institutional Pharmacy Practice
- Community Pharmacy Practice
- Bulk Repackaging and Non-Sterile Compounding
- Aseptic Technique and Sterile Compounding
- Advanced Sterile Compounding
- Pharmacy Billing and Inventory Management
- Medication Safety and Error Prevention
- Drug References
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National Board Exam Pass Rate
PTCB National Board Examination Pass Rate 80% (PTCE- Percentage of Examinations Passed/Compared to 70% National Average Pass Rate, 2024) (10% Above National Average)