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PHARMACY TECHNICIAN
 As a Pharmacy Technician, you will fill prescriptions in a variety of medical environments including hospitals, medical clinics, and retail and institutional pharmacies. Your work involves performing pharmaceutical stock keeping, delivery, technical assistance, and clerical duties.
Examples of duties you will perform are: Assisting pharmacists in filling prescriptions, assisting pharmacists in preparing drugs for unit-dose delivery, reconstituting sterile medications, preparing intravenous (IV) admixtures for patient administration, preparing IV chemotherapy drugs, entering prescriptions into a computer to obtain labels, ensuring information such as drug generic name, expiration date, and lot number are properly recorded on labels and log records for repackaged drugs, reviewing stock orders and replenishing supplies and conducting physical inventories.
How long is the program?
Our Pharmacy Technician Program is 9 months long.
Will I receive hands-on, real world job experience?
Yes. The Pharmacy Technician program has a total of 320 hours of extern (lasting approximately 8 weeks) during which the student will be involved in real-life situations, dealing with real patients. The Pharmacy Technician externship is divided between retail and hospital sites.
What skills will I learn?
- Maintain pharmacy equipment and facilities
- Assist pharmacist in collecting information for patient care
- Drug use review and pharmacy management
- Receive and screen prescription / medication for completeness
- Assist pharmacist in preparation, distribution and storage of medication
- Utilize computer to perform pharmacy functions
Where can I work?
- Pharmacies
- Hospitals
- Clinics
Are there really jobs available for me?
We could tell you... "Absolutely." But, what we prefer to do is to encourage you to do the research yourself. Get a copy of your local newspaper and read through the healthcare job listings. Look for your potential job category and see for yourself how many great opportunities will be available to you when you complete your Concorde training. Jump online and search some of the excellent job resource websites for opportunities in your field. The jobs are out there... so don't wait any longer if you want to work in healthcare. Come to Concorde and we'll prepare you quickly and thoroughly for your new career.
Will I receive any special certificates or qualifications?
- Concorde Career Institute Diploma
- You will be prepared to sit for the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) certification exam.
And finally, how much does it cost?
We know how important this question is to most of you. We have found that our program costs may change slightly with each new session. For that reason, we are unable to provide cost information on our website. We are, however, very happy to discuss our current program costs with you personally. Please give us a call anytime. Just tell your campus representative that you have visited our website and would like information about our program.
If you have questions about financial aid, your representative will refer you to our excellent Financial Aid staff who are here specifically to help you fund
your education.
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