Pharmacy Technician
Technical Diploma
31-536-1
Degree Completion Time: 2 terms
2010-2011
Program Curriculum and Course Offerings
Recommended Sequence of Courses
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About Shared Programs
LTC offers its Pharmacy Technician program in cooperation with technical colleges across the state. As a pharmacy technician student, you'll:
- Attend live, interactive TV classes sent from LTC to your local technical college.
- Receive laboratory training in local pharmacies.
- Participate in real-world, hands-on training during a 4-week clinical program.
- Take general studies classes at your local technical college.
About the Career
If you're ill or injured, you have access to an enormous variety of therapeutic medications, and you trust your pharmacy to correctly interpret and fill your prescriptions. Pharmacy technicians contribute to our safety by assisting pharmacists in a variety of technical tasks. If you're attentive to detail, organized, a good communicator, and like math, science, and working with people, a career as a pharmacy technician may be your prescription for success.
Careers
- Home IV Specialist
- Pharmacy Technician employed at:
- Community Pharmacies
- Hospital Pharmacies
- Nursing Home Pharmacies
Program Goals
You'll learn to:
- Package and label drugs for prescription dispensing.
- Prepare and deliver unit dose to the nursing services of hospitals or nursing homes.
- Prepare parenteral admixtures under aseptic and sterile conditions.
- Receive and inventory drug shipments.
- Maintain records, including patient profiles.
- Facilitate communications for third party reimbursement.
- Compound solutions, ointments, lotions, suppositories, and other medications.
- Comprehend and utilize medical and drug terminology common to the pharmaceutical environment.
- Practice ethical standards and recognize legal implications of your actions as they relate to yourself, the pharmacist, and the pharmacy.
Other Program Expectations
You'll need to have CPR certifications (one- and two-person, adult, child and infant) required prior to starting clinicals.
Pharmacy Technician Program
Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes
October 16, 2008
May 15, 2008
October 4, 2007
May 17, 2007
October 5, 2006
May 9, 2006
Approximate Costs
- $107.00 per credit (resident)
- $158.00 per credit (out-of-state resident)
- Online class fee is $10 per credit
- Other fees vary by program (books, supplies, materials, tools, uniforms, health-related exams, etc)
Want more information?
- Submit your questions online
- Email info@gotoltc.edu
- Call 1.888.GO TO LTC, Ext. 1109
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