PHARMACY TECHNICIAN

Career Outlook

Your New Career

Pharmacy Technician is one of the fastest growing careers in health care. As a trained Pharmacy Technician, you can work for a retail pharmacy, a hospital, your local druggist, or at one of the many in-store pharmacies in supermarkets. Assist the pharmacist with the everyday duties of running a pharmacy. Pharmacy Technicians enjoy varied assignments, flexible working hours, respect, and prestige. When you become a trained Pharmacy Technician, you'll discover plenty of opportunities in the various types of pharmacies and drug dispensing work sites.

With your knowledge of major drug manufacturers and their products and how those products are prescribed for medical conditions of patients, you'll have a better chance of getting a better job. You'll be skilled in drug preparation and dispensing; measurements, ration and proportion, calculation of doses, and percentage preparations, all under the supervision of a Pharmacist. Jobs for Pharmacy Technicians are expected to increase nearly 31% through 2018.*

Your New Skills

Learn clinical responsibilities like preparing prescribed medication, creating labels, and keeping the pharmacy in order. Also, gain practical information, such as major drug manufacturers and their products, and using common reference sources of drug information. Learn medical terminology, so you'll have an understanding of medical conditions of the patient and indications for drug use. Gain the basic chemistry and arithmetic skills needed to assist the pharmacy in preparing and dispensing drugs.

You'll get the knowledge you need for every part of being a Pharmacy Technician.

• Sharpen your arithmetic skills. Learn all about pharmaceutical calculations used in drug preparation and dispensing, including systems of measurement, ratio and proportion, and percentages.
• Get the clinical knowledge you need. Learn all about today's most common prescription and over-the-counter drugs, how they should be taken, and possible drug reactions and interactions.
• Enhance your ability to handle emergency situations. Learn about adverse drug reactions and what to do in an emergency resulting from a wrong dose, overdose, or accidental drug or poison ingestion.

Your New Diploma

Earn your Pharmacy Technician Career Diploma at home in as little as nine months by studying just an hour a day for your new career. Expert instructors and support staff – dedicated to helping you complete your coursework – will be just a phone call or an email away.

* Growth figures represent a ten-year period ending 2018. Source: "National Industry-Occupation Employment Matrix," a publication of The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

 Program Overview

Become a Pharmacy Technician with at home training from the Continuing Education Center.

You'll get the training you need to work closely with pharmacists in providing medication and health care products to patients. Whether you'll work for a retail pharmacy, local druggist, grocery store, or hospital, you'll be an important part of a rewarding profession.

Our Pharmacy Technician training program provides you the skills you need to succeed and even offers a Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam Review.

You’ll learn how to:

• Receive prescriptions from doctors and hospitals.
• Prepare prescriptions for patients.
• Verify insurance and prescription information.
• Assist the pharmacist with everyday duties.

Flexible, Convenient, Self-Paced!
There is no going to class, no need to rearrange schedules. You choose the right time and place to complete your coursework. And you work at your own pace. There's no one to rush you or hold you back.

While you'll work independently, you won't be alone. Expert instructors and support staff — dedicated to helping you complete your coursework — are just a phone call or an email away.

Certification Eligibility
Graduates of the Continuing Education Center Pharmacy Technician Program are automatically eligible to take the PTCB (Pharmacy Technician Certification Board) examination. You will also receive the Pharmacy Technician Workbook and Certification Review. This workbook is the only Pharmacy Technician workbook officially endorsed by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA).

State Licensing Requirements
For residents of Florida, Indiana, Nevada, South Carolina, and Utah, State Boards of Pharmacy may impose a variety of different requirements for pharmacy technician training. The states of North Dakota and Washington will not consider the training received in this program adequate to fulfill pharmacy technician credentialing requirements. You should contact the State Board of Pharmacy to obtain the requirements applicable to pharmacy technicians in your state.

Contact the Continuing Education Center Today.

 Find out more about the Continuing Education Center's Pharmacy Technician training that includes:

• All the books, lessons, equipment, and learning aids you need
• Work experience option
• Unlimited, toll-free instructional support
• Access to student services by website, phone, and mail

Program Outline

Instruction Sets
Your at-home learning program includes ten Instruction Sets designed to take you step-by-step through the techniques and skills you'll employ in your new career as a Pharmacy Technician. Your first Instruction Set will be sent to you as your enrollment has been accepted. Other Instruction Sets will follow as you complete your exams, so that you will always have training materials to work with.

You will need access to a Microsoft® Windows®-based computer (running Windows Vista or later) and the Internet in order to complete your program with the Continuing Education Center.

Here is an overview of what you'll learn and the order in which you'll receive your lessons:

Online Library and Librarian
Students in the Continuing Education Center have access to an online library for use during their studies. Students can use this library to do the required research in the courses they complete or can use it for general reference and links to valuable resources. The library contains helpful research assistance, articles, databases, books, and Web links. A librarian is available to answer questions on general research-related topics via email and to assist students in research activities during their studies with the Continuing Education Center.

You must have a High School Diploma or GED to enroll in this program.

We reserve the right to change program content and materials when it becomes necessary.

State boards of pharmacy may impose a variety of different requirements for pharmacy technician training. You should contact the state board to obtain the requirements applicable to pharmacy technicians in your state.