Pharmacy Technician Training Program

This course teaches the integumentary, musculoskeletal, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic, respiratory, urinary, and digestive systems.

This course introduces students to professional environments, job search and personal requirements for career success. Students will prepare resumes, learn interview and job search techniques.

This course assists students with preparation to take their national and/or state certification exam.

This course teaches written, verbal, and nonverbal communications.

This course is designed to introduce the student to community pharmacy operations, interpreting and processing prescriptions, third-party payments, merchandise handling and inventory, hospital pharmacy practice, infection control and preparing sterile IV’s, HIPPA regulations and pathogens in the pharmacy.

This course introduces the student to trade and generic drug names, dosage forms and routes of administration, pharmacologic classes and systems of measurement.

This course teaches extemporaneous compounding, compounding of liquid, semisolid, and solid drugs as well as suppositories and parenteral products. This course also teaches parenteral preparations, types of asepsis, equipment and supplies, laminar airflow hoods, compounding of a parenteral and TPN product, preparing an IV Piggyback, large volume parenterals, preparation of IV admixtures, non-injecting products and compounding records, and policies and procedures for sterile product preparation. Students are introduced to medication and compliance, facilities and equipment, sterile and non-sterile compounding procedures, handling, packaging, storage and disposal.

This course provided students with hands on training in a community and hospital pharmacy practice setting. Students will complete 200 hours of externship training under the direction of a Registered Pharmacist and Infinity College.

This course teaches about infection, diseases of the various body systems, and about the various types of body systems.

Course includes infection prevention and control practices, the chain of infection, standard and transmission-based precautions, barriers and use of personal protective equipment (PPE), and strategies for preventing the spread of infectious disease to healthcare workers and patients.

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This course teaches inventory control and management, ordering, receiving, stocking, expired stock, drug formulary, repackaging, and automated dispensing systems.

This course teaches the introduction to basic keyboarding and typing. This course teaches writing, verbal, and non-verbal communication.

This course is designed to provide hands on training using electronic simulations as well as simulations within the laboratory to prepare the student for externship.

This course introduces the student to the basic math, algebra, and pharmaceutical calculations utilized in pharmacy practices.

This course teaches law and ethics in pharmacy, governing bodies, types of law and violations of the law, pharmacy law and regulation at the state and federal level, drug recall and standards, and the ethical foundation of pharmacy.

This course teaches word parts, rules for forming and spelling medical terms, abbreviations, drug names and apothecary symbols.

This course teaches pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, mechanism and causes of drug interaction, patient variables that affect drug interaction, and reducing the risk of drug interaction.

This course teaches occupational safety and health administration standards, regulations within the pharmacy, and universal precaution and employee responsibilities

This course teaches drug names and sources, dosage forms of drugs, and principles of drug administration.

This course introduces the student to the pharmacy reimbursement process by discussing healthcare plans, reimbursement systems, third-party payments, documentation, collections and claims processing.

This course introduces the pharmacy technician student to the operations of pharmacy. This course teaches organization of the hospital pharmacy, medication orders and medication of dispensing systems, sterile products, inventory control, automation, roles and duties of a pharmacy technician, and the policies and procedures manual and regulatory agencies. The course also teaches the prescription, organization of the retail pharmacy, and the professional characteristics of pharmacy technicians. Furthermore, the course teaches long-term care pharmacy services, home health care and home infusion pharmacy, hospice, ambulatory, mail-order, central fill and internet pharmacies

This course is designed to facilitate the student’s mastery of computer skills needed to perform various pharmacy technician related responsibilities in community and hospital pharmacy practices. Students will also perform hands on and simulated activities where they will practice pharmacy technician skills to prepare for externship.