Pharmacy Technician

50 classroom Hours + 80 Clinical Externship Hours

Cost: $ 1,399 (Textbooks Included)

Date and Time:

March 29, 2022 - May 17, 2022
Mondays & Wednesdays / 6 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Location: Fairhope Campus

Course Overview:

This comprehensive non-credit program will prepare students to work as a pharmacy technician in a retail or other pharmacy setting and to take the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board’s PTCB exam.

Course Content Includes: Pharmacy medical terminology, the history of pharmacy, the pharmacy practice in multiple environments, pharmacy calculations and measurements, reading and interpreting prescriptions and defining drugs by generic and brand names. Through classroom lecture and hands on labs, students will review dosage calculations, drug classifications, the “top 200 drugs”, I.V. flow rates, sterile compounding, dose conversions, aseptic technique, the handling of sterile products, total parenteral nutrition (TPN), dispensing of prescriptions, inventory control and billing and reimbursement.

National Certification

This program meets the necessary requirements to take the Pharmacy Technician Certified Board (PTCB) – Certified Pharmacy Technician (PTCB) exam.

Clinical Externship

As part of this Pharmacy Technician program, you will be eligible to participate in a 80 hour clinical externship.