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5.00 Credits
5 credits quarters: W This course covers commonly utilized pharmacy procedures including computer skills, labeling, insurance, billing, formularies, materials management systems, evaluation and processing of medication orders and prescriptions, and the top 200 most commonly prescribed medications. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Pharmacy Technician Program and successful completion of AHPT 125 and 140
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6.00 Credits
6 credits quarters: W This course teaches sterile and nonsterile compounding skills. Included are the pharmaceutical skills of repackaging; preparation of medications in various forms; use and maintenance of compounding equipment; documentation; packaging and labeling of compounded medications; procurement of compounding supplies; storage; preparation, administration, and distribution of drugs and supplies to patients in the hospital; intravenous admixtures; and unit dose preparation. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Pharmacy Technician Program and successful completion of AHPT 125 and 140
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8.00 Credits
8 credits quarters: S The goal of the pharmacy externship course is to provide student exposure to community-based practice to develop competence as a pharmacy technician. Students will be assigned to a retail and/or hospital pharmacy to practice pharmacy technician skills under the supervision of a facility-designated preceptor. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Pharmacy Technician Program and completion of all required allied health core courses and pharmacy technician courses with a grade of C (2.0) or better; concurrent enrollment in AHPT 203
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4.00 Credits
4 credits quarters: S This course is designed as a capstone to the pharmacy technician student's program of study. It will systematically lead the student through a review of program topics and impart updated information on topics that may be included in the final comprehensive program examination as well as in the national certification exam. Strategies to prepare for the exams, including test-taking techniques, will be emphasized. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Pharmacy Technician Program and completion of all required allied health core courses and pharmacy technician courses with a grade of C (2.0) or better; concurrent enrollment in AHPT 201
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10.00 Credits
10 credits quarters: Experimental/exploratory studies in allied health surgical technology
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2.00 Credits
2 credits quarters: F This first of two courses in asepsis and infection control explores the impact of microbiology and asepsis on the practice of sterile technique and infection control in the operating room. Topics covered will include cell structure and function, classification of organisms, immune responses, infectious processes, microbial growth and aseptic technique, immunology, and bacteriology with relation to how these affect surgical practice. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Surgical Technology Program and concurrent enrollment in or successful completion of AHMA 115 with a grade of C (2.0) or batter.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits quarters: W This second of two courses in the study of asepsis and infection control explores the impact of microbiology and asepsis on the practice of sterile technique and infection control in the operating room. Topics covered include bacteriology, pathogens of body fluids and systems, virology, parasitology, mycology, and wound healing with relation to how these affect surgical practice. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Surgical Technology Program and successful completion of AHST 102 with a grade of C (2.0) or better
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3.00 Credits
3 credits quarters: F This course explores the surgical technologist's role with regard to instrumentation, supplies, and equipment used in the operating room. Topics covered will include electrical, fire, biological, and chemical hazards in the operative area; surgical department designs; and the physical components of the surgical suite. Students will identify basic instruments and equipment by type, function, and name and will demonstrate proper care, handling, assembly, and sterilization of those used. Students will apply the principles of robotics to safe patient care and will examine support services and regulatory agencies with regard to their role in patient safety. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Surgical Technology Program and concurrent enrollment in or successful completion of AHMA 115 with a grade of C (2.0) or batter.
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5.00 Credits
5 credits quarters: F Explores the surgical technologist's role with regard to instrumentation, supplies, equipment, and quality patient care in the operating room. Students will identify basic instruments by type, function, and name and identify items that require sterilization prior to use on the sterile field. They will demonstrate proper care, handling, and assembly of instruments and identify types of special equipment. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Surgical Technology Program
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5.00 Credits
5 credits quarters: F The first of two surgical competency courses, this course explores the surgical technologist s role in caring for the surgical patient. Topics include preoperative patient routines, proper patient identification, surgical consents, review of the patient chart, care of patient possessions, patient care the evening and morning of surgery, methods of patient transportation, establishing the sterile field, room setup, the surgical scrub, gowning and gloving, assisting other team members, patient catheterization, skin preparation, positioning and draping the patient, preparation of the patient for anesthesia, and monitoring the sterile field. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Surgical Technology Program.
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