Pharmacy Technician

Students completing this program will have the basic technical skills, knowledge and work habits to assist pharmacists in the filling of prescriptions, i.e. the dispensing of medications in accordance with doctor’s orders.  The students also will have a basic knowledge of the various counter skills to allow them to assist customers.  The program includes instruction in both pharmacy operations and administrative aspects of pharmacy operations. It also includes CPR certification.  Graduates will work directly under the supervision of a Registered Pharmacist.  General duties may include the entry of information pertaining to customers, insurance policies and prescription data into computer databases, the measuring or counting of medicines being dispensed by the pharmacist, the labeling of medicine containers such as bottles or vials, verifying information from doctors, verifying insurance payment information, reading physicians orders and hospital charts, keeping patients medical profiles, typing labels, maintaining inventory, generating billing, preparing third party insurance forms, and preparing unit dose medications, IV add mixtures and sterile irrigations.