Pharmacy Technician - Concorde Career College - Memphis

Pharmacy Technician from Concorde Career College - Memphis is a Campus Certificate Pharmacy degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. 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 32 weeks 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 View more details on Concorde Career College - Memphis, TN . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Pharmacy courses.