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Online Pharmacy Technician Curriculum

  • 1

    Session 1: Let's Dive In The Pharmacy Profession

    • History of Pharmacy

    • Responsibilities of The Pharmacy Technician

    • End Goal of Pharmacy Technician Certification: PTCB Roadmap

    • Assessment: History of Pharmacy

  • 2

    Session 2: Intro to Pharmacy Math (No need to fear!)

    • Pharmacy Math

    • Intro Pharmacy Calculations

    • Important: Sig Codes (prescription abbreviations) and conversions (math measurements) and medical abbreviations

    • Assessment: Intro Pharmacy Math

  • 3

    Session 3: Intro to Pharmacology (Study of Drugs)

    • Intro to Pharmacology - Drug Naming, and Routes and Formulations

    • Drug List: Intro to Pharmacology - Controlled Substances (Drugs that have abuse potential)

    • Intro to Prescriptions - Take a look at what you will be interpreting!

    • Assessment: Intro to Pharmacology
  • 4

    Session 4: Law

    • Pharmacy Law 1

    • Pharmacy Law 2

    • Pharmacy Law 3

    • Assessment on Law
  • 5

    Session 5: Prescriptions, and Converting One Unit to Another (Metric and Household Systems)

    • Prescription Interpretation and Converting Household and Metric Units

    • Assessment
  • 6

    Session 6: Drugs

    • Analgesics, Anesthetics, Anti-infectives (Medications for pain, surgery, and infections)

    • Drug List: Analgesics (Pain Meds)

    • Prescriptions - Practice interpreting these prescriptions

    • Assessment: Analgesics....
  • 7

    Session 7: Medical Terminology and The Prescription

    • Medical Terminology

    • The Prescription
  • 8

    Session 8: Converting Units again (Apothecary and Metric) and Temperature Conversion

    • Converting Apothecary and Metric Units; Temperature Conversion

    • Assessment
  • 9

    Session 9: Antineoplastics, and Hematopoetics (Drugs for Cancer and Blood)

    • Cancer, and Blood Medications

    • Assessment: Antineoplastics, Hematologicals, and Nucelar Pharmacy
  • 10

    Session 10: Non-Sterile Compounding (Making drugs that are unique for the patient and they are NOT for injection, eyes, or inhalation)

    • Non-Sterile Compounding

    • Assessment: NonSterile Compounding
  • 11

    Session 11: Calculations for Compounding and Days Supply

    • Compounding, Days Supply, and Adjusting Refill

    • Assessment
  • 12

    Session 12: Cardiovascular Drugs (Medications for High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol, Heart Conditions)

    • Cardiovascular Drugs

    • Cardiovascular Drugs

    • Assessment: Cardiovascular Agents and Electrolytes

  • 13

    Session 13: Sterile Compounding and Hospital Pharmacy (Making drugs that you inject, inhale, and put into the eyes)

    • Sterile Compounding

    • Assessment: Hospital Pharmacy
  • 14

    Session 14 : Math

    • Calculations for Community Pharmacy

    • Assessment
  • 15

    Session 15: Derm and GI (Skin and Stomach)

    • Dermatologicals and Gastrointestinal Agent

    • Assessment: Dermatological and Gastrointestinal Agents
  • 16

    Session 16: Pharmacy Inventory

    • Inventory Management
  • 17

    Session 17: Hospital Math

    • Calculations for Institutional Pharmacy (Parenteral Dosing, Powdered Formulations, and Percentages

    • Assessment
  • 18

    Session 19: Financial Issues (Billing Insurance or other third parties like Medicare or Medicaid)

    • Financial Issues

    • Other Pharmacy Environments

    • Assessment
  • 19

    Session 20: Pharmacy Hospital Math Continued

    • Hospital Pharmacy (Ratios, Infusion Rates, and Dosing based upon weight, BSA)

    • Assessment on Ratios and Percentages
  • 20

    Session 21 Pharmacy Hospital Math (This is it!)

    • Diluting and mixing

    • Assessment on Dilutions and Allegations
  • 21

    Session 22: Drugs

    • Biopharmacetics

    • Assessment: Basic Pharmaceuticals and Factors Affecting Drug

  • 22

    Session 23 Final Steps to Success

    • Final Assessment Over Entire Program

    • How to register for "Registered Pharmacy Technician" in the state of IL