Question 1

Orientation Module

Accepted Answer

A customizable overview module that introduces the class to the course. This module includes and details the following:
 • Class Syllabus
 • The NEO Learning Management System
 • Discussion Posts
 • Recommended Ways of Communicating and Netiquette
 • How to Create a Reflection Journal, aka a 'Dream Book'
 • Course Requirements

Question 2

Module 1 - Pharmacy and Health Care

Accepted Answer

Students will focus on the foundations of pharmacy, review through the current technology, and understand the modern landscape of the profession to best promote an efficient and safe environment for drug management.

Topics Included Cover:
 • Medicine: Origins to Today - A Brief History
 • Pharmacy and Technology in the 21st Century

Question 3

Module 2 - The Professional Pharmacy Technician

Accepted Answer

Students will learn the roles and responsibilities of the Pharmacy Technician. They will address the scope of practice, skill requirement (personal and formal), training, competency, certification and other relevant areas. 
Topics Included Cover:
 • The Pharmacy Technician
 • Career, Communication, and Medication Safety

Question 4

Module 3 - Pharmacy Laws, Regulations, & Ethics"

Accepted Answer

Students will learn the laws, regulations, and ethical requirements that govern the field of practice.
Topics Included Cover:
 • Laws, Regulations, Privacy, Drug Market and Approval
 • Safety, Controlled Substances, Courts and Ethics

Question 5

Module 4 - Pharmacy Research and Information Gathering

Accepted Answer

Students will learn about current laws, drug uses, dispositions, and how to research. They must be comfortable researching and gathering data that ensures the most current drugs/dispositions are known to avoid safety issues and concerns.
Topics Included Cover:
 • Understanding How to Research Drugs and Related Information
 • Digital Utilization in Gathering Information (Web and Mobile Medical Apps)

Question 6

Module 5 - Medical Terminology

Accepted Answer

To function successfully as a Pharmacy Technician, the trainee must successfully master medical terminology. It's the language in a sense of the healthcare professional. 
Topics Included Cover:
 • Terminology, Prefixes, and Suffixes
 • Organ Systems
 • Drug Classifications and Medical Abbreviations

Question 7

Module 6 - Medical and Pharmacy Calculations

Accepted Answer

Students will learn the basic math skills and knowledge regarding dimensional analysis and formulations. 
Topics Included Cover:
 • Numbers, Figures and Fractions
 • Measurements and Dimensional Analysis
 • Equations and Variables, Ratio and Proportion, and Percents and Solutions
 • Alligation, Powder Volume, and Dosing

Question 8

Module 7 - Prescriptions

Accepted Answer

Students will learn about the purpose and processes of prescriptions in various settings.  
Topics Included Cover:
 • Prescriptions, Abbreviations, and Information
 • Fill Processing, Labels and Examples

Question 9

Module 8 - Routes and Formulations

Accepted Answer

Students will learn how medication and drugs enter into the body, and the different respective routes of administration.
Topics Included Cover:
 • Routes and Formulations Part 1
 • Routes and Formulations Part 2

Question 10

Module 9 - Non-sterile Compounding

Accepted Answer

Students will learn about one of the cornerstones of the pharmacy profession - compounding, specifically non-sterile compounding.
Topics Included Cover:
 • Compounding, Standards, Weighing Equipment, Measurement
 • Measuring, Solids, Solutions, Suspensions and Emulsion
 • Ointments, Capsules, Tablets, Suppositories

Question 11

Module 10 - Sterile Compounding and Aseptic Techniques

Accepted Answer

Students will continue to learn about compounding, focusing on sterile and aseptic compounding technique and practice. This component of compounding will also reinforce the importance of proper techniques, so as to ensure patient safety.
Topics Included Cover:
 • Sterile Compounding, Regulations, LVP/SVP Solutions
 • Aseptic Techniques
 • Filters, Infection Control, Quality Assurance and Parenteral Incompatibility

Question 12

Module 11 - Basic Biopharmaceutics

Accepted Answer

Students will explore various concepts and ideas relevant to biopharmaceutics - how drugs work and the concentrations and effects of drugs based upon measurement.  
Topics Included Cover:
 • Absorption
 • Distribution
 • Metabolism
 • Excretion
 • Bioavailability and bio-equivalence

Question 13

Module 12 - Factors Affecting Drug Activity

Accepted Answer

Students will learn about the factors that affect drug activity, including, human interactions, diseases, diet, and other drugs.  
Topics Included Cover:
 • Variability
 • Reactions
 • Disease States
 • Interactions

Question 14

Module 13 - Common Drugs and their Uses

Accepted Answer

Students will take a deeper dive in learning the naming, identification, and classifications of drugs.  
 
Topics Included Cover:
 • Drug Names, Classes, and Classification Schemes
 • Analgesics, Anesthetic Agents, Anti-infectives, and Antineoplastics
 • Cardiovascular Agents, Dermatologicals, and Electrolytic Agents
 • Gastrointestinal Urinary, Hematological, Hormones, and Immunobiologic Agents and Vaccines
 • Musculoskeletal, Neurological, Ophthalmic, Psychotropic, Respiratory and other Agents

Question 15

Module 14 - Inventory Management

Accepted Answer

Students will learn how to establish and maintain an inventory that meets the needs of the customer - patients, hospital staff and consumers. 
Topics Included Cover:
 • Inventory
 • Ordering
 • Receiving and Storage
 • Returns and Disposal
 • Special Inventory

Question 16

Module 15 - Finacial Issues in Pharmacy

Accepted Answer

Students will learn about the financial aspects of a pharmacy. Whether the cost is for research and development of drugs, direct care plans, or pharmacy costs, patients will have to eventually bare the cost of the prescription and/or other health care intervention.
 
Topics Included Cover:
 • Financial Issues and Third-Party Programs
 • Online Adjudication, Rejected Claims and Other Billing Procedures

Question 17

Module 16 - Community Pharmacy

Accepted Answer

Students will learn about the most common form of pharmacies in the U.S. - community pharmacies. Students will explore how the vast majority of prescriptions are dispensed through these agents, and how community pharmacy relates to the role and responsibilities of the pharmacy technician.
Topics Included Cover:
 • Customer Service, Regulations and Organization
 • Processing and Preparing Prescriptions, and Customer Pickup
 • Cash Register Use, Other Duties and Over-the-Counter Products

Question 18

Module 17 - Hospital Pharmacy

Accepted Answer

Students will learn about the distinction of hospital pharmacies, and how these provide the medications for staff to prescribe and deliver to patients.  
 
Topics Included Cover:
 • Technician Roles and Formulary
 • Communication, Computers, Medication, Order Processing and Inventory
 • Organization, Unit Dose, Sterilization and Infection Control
 • Hospital Safety Measures and Issues

Question 19

Module 18 - Non-Hospital Environments

Accepted Answer

Students will learn about the pharmacy services that specific patients rely on, such as mail order pharmacies, long-term care organizations, and others.
Topics Included Cover:
 • Mail Ordering
 • Long-Term Care
 • Home Infusion
 • Nuclear Pharmacies

Pharmacy Technician

Training

Ready made hybrid course to prepare your students to take the PTCE® and become CPhTs.

Course Overview

What's Included

Course Detail

Orientation Module

Module 1 - Pharmacy and Health Care

Module 2 - The Professional Pharmacy Technician

Module 3 - Pharmacy Laws, Regulations, & Ethics"

Module 4 - Pharmacy Research and Information Gathering

Module 5 - Medical Terminology

Module 6 - Medical and Pharmacy Calculations

Module 7 - Prescriptions

Module 8 - Routes and Formulations

Module 9 - Non-sterile Compounding

Module 10 - Sterile Compounding and Aseptic Techniques

Module 11 - Basic Biopharmaceutics

Module 12 - Factors Affecting Drug Activity

Module 13 - Common Drugs and their Uses

Module 14 - Inventory Management

Module 15 - Finacial Issues in Pharmacy

Module 16 - Community Pharmacy

Module 17 - Hospital Pharmacy

Module 18 - Non-Hospital Environments

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Pharmacy Technician

Training

Ready made hybrid course to prepare your students to take the PTCE® and become CPhTs.

Course Overview

What's Included

Course Detail

Orientation Module

Module 1 - Pharmacy and Health Care

Module 2 - The Professional Pharmacy Technician

Module 3 - Pharmacy Laws, Regulations, &amp; Ethics"

Module 4 - Pharmacy Research and Information Gathering

Module 5 - Medical Terminology

Module 6 - Medical and Pharmacy Calculations

Module 7 - Prescriptions

Module 8 - Routes and Formulations

Module 9 - Non-sterile Compounding

Module 10 - Sterile Compounding and Aseptic Techniques

Module 11 - Basic Biopharmaceutics

Module 12 - Factors Affecting Drug Activity

Module 13 - Common Drugs and their Uses

Module 14 - Inventory Management

Module 15 - Finacial Issues in Pharmacy

Module 16 - Community Pharmacy

Module 17 - Hospital Pharmacy

Module 18 - Non-Hospital Environments

Additional Course Details

Ready to get this expertly crafted online course for your training center or school?

Our Courses

Ready to see how you will take your school to the next level?

Need help preparing your faculty to teach in an online environment?

Give your instructors the confidence and understanding on how to teach an online Pharmacy Technician course.

In addition to our courses, we offer online instructor training so your faculty is not only equipped with the curriculum, they know how to deliver it too.

Module 3 - Pharmacy Laws, Regulations, & Ethics"