Ashworth College

Overview

This is a comprehensive course that teaches prospective pharmacy technicians all about the indications, side effects, dosage calculations and administration methods of the major classes of drugs. You’ll also learn about the techniques for weighing, measuring, compounding, reducing and blending ingredients accurately; sterilization procedures; preparing infusions and solutions; using ratios, fractions and proportions and much, much more.

This is your chance to join a respected profession that is growing quickly along with the boom in the health care industry in general.

All textbooks and study materials are included with your tuition.

Career Profile

Pharmacy technicians work under the supervision of licensed pharmacists and assume many of the vital technical and administrative responsibilities related to drug dispensing. There’s plenty to do as a pharmacy technician such as:

	Measuring and counting medications
	Getting physician authorizations
	Calling insurance carriers
	Tracking inventory
	Updating account information
	Printing prescription labels
	Preparing third-party billing statements
	Ordering OTC medications

In the more than 50,000 pharmacies across America, more than three-billion prescriptions are filled annually. Our expanding elderly population, along with the ever-increasing quantity and variety of available drug treatments, should result in rising demand for both prescription and over-the-counter medications. This means great job prospects are in store for pharmacy technicians.

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