PT 295 - Pharmacy Technician Practicum

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Monroe College-New Rochelle

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4 credits The Pharmacy Technician Practicum involves the application of pharmacist technician concepts in community and hospital pharmacy, home health, and extended care settings. This Practicum is a work-based instruction that helps students gain practical experience in pharmacy technology, enhance skills, and integrate knowledge. The Practicum is intended to continue the development of student knowledge and skills applicable to pharmacy technology practice. Students gain hands-on experience in a community pharmacy, including interpretation of prescriptions, entering prescriptions on computer, patient profiles, correctly filling and labeling prescriptions, billing patient and third parties, customer service, over-the-counter medications, purchasing, inventory control, compounding and patient confidentiality. Students will also gain skills to prepare parenteral admixtures, fill medication carts and unit-dose drawers, control inventory, package medications, and maintain patient records in the hospital setting. The emphasis is on practical work experience for which the student has already acquired the necessary theoretical knowledge and basic laboratory skills. PREREQUISITE: HC-220, PT-225, last semester

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4.00

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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