PHARMACY TECHNOLOGY

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PHARMACY TECHNOLOGY

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Purpose

• The Pharmacy Technician Program seeks to provide
  our service area with students that have the
  technical skills and knowledge base needed to
  practice in any setting.

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What can this program do for you?

• Provide you with the technical skills and
  knowledge needed to practice in a variety of
  pharmacy settings.
• Prepare you to pass the Pharmacy
• Technician Certification Board.

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What is a Pharmacy Technician?

• A healthcare professional with a wide range of
  skills and knowledge.

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What is a Pharmacy Technician?

• A professional who is accountable to the
  pharmacist for quality and accuracy.

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What is a Pharmacy Technician?

• An individual who assists pharmacists with
  technical and non-technical tasks.

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• The pharmacy profession is experiencing severe
  shortages of trained staff locally and nationwide.

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Opportunities For Pharmacy Technicians

• Currently, there are more opportunities for
  Pharmacy Technicians than Pharmacists.

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• Technicians who complete a diploma program and
  are certified are in great demand.

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Workplaces for Pharmacy Technicians

• Infusion services
• Drug wholesale companies
• Insurance companies
• Long-term care facilities
• Repackaging Firms

• Retail Pharmacies independent/chain
• Hospitals general / specialized
• Call Centers
• Mail Order Filling Facilities
• Manufacturing facilities

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Retail Pharmacy

• Tasks include
• Entering, Filling, Labeling and Recording
  prescriptions
• Compounding prescriptions
• Managing inventory
• Maintaining patient records and profiles
• Billing third party plans for pharmacy services

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Hospital Pharmacy

• Tasks include
• Entering, Filling, Labeling and Recording
  prescriptions
• Compounding prescriptions
• Managing inventory
• Maintaining patient records and profiles
• Preparing IVs and other sterile products
• Drug information

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Mail Order / Long term care / Infusion services

• All provide specialized services to patients
• Long term care fill prescriptions for patients
  in facilities.
• Infusion services provide IV products to
  patients in the community setting.
• Mail Order fill prescriptions to be mailed to
  customers

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Repackaging Firms

• Federal Law now requires that all medications
  administered in institutions be scanned at the
  bedside. Packaging Firms prepare dosages for
  scanning.

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Call Centers and Insurance Companies

• Tasks include
• Handling the majority of prescription processing
  for insurance companies
• May be responsible for criteria based drug
  utilization review
• Work for an insurance companies and process
  medical claims

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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Facilities

• Tasks include
• Any technical function in drug manufacturing.
• Management of other technicians
• Quality assurance

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Drug Wholesalers

• Tasks include
• Inventory management
• Packaging and shipping of pharmaceuticals
• Management of other technicians
• Quality Assurance

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A look into the future

• New requirements.?
• Completion of accredited program1
• Continuing Education more defined2
• Specific clinical or hands on experiential hours2
• Advanced CPhT with tiered responsibilities2

• Specialization of pharmacy technician jobs3
• Vaccines
• Medication Therapy Management (MTM)
• Nuclear Pharmacy

1. NABP Recommendations http//www.nabp.net/news/a
ssets/TF-PharmTechEduc.pdf 2. PTCB C.R.E.S.T.
Summit 2011 http//www.ptcb.org/AM/Template.cfm?Se
ctionCREST_SummitTemplate/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfmCo
ntentID4234 3. Innovating the Pharmacy
Technicians Role. http//www.ashpintersections.or
g/2010/12/innovating-the-pharmacy-technicianE280
99s-role/
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Expected Salaries1
1. ASHP. Expected Salaries http//www.pharmtechi
nfocenter.com/careers/expected_salaries.html