Pharmacy Tech Certification

Pharmacy Tech Certification

So you want to be a pharmacy tech as your chosen career path. But what is a pharmacy tech? What responsibilities are involved?

A pharmacy tech is one whose primary duty is to help licensed pharmacists provide medication and other healthcare products to patients and perform almost every function in the pharmacy. This does make the pharmacy tech the key person in keeping many of the day to day operations of a pharmacy, thus leaving a pharmacist free for more critical operations.

The tasks that a pharmacy tech routinely performs include many of the following:

* Helping prepare prescribed medication for patients
* Counting tablets
* Answer telephones
* Receive written prescriptions
* Verifying written prescriptions
* Taking refill requests
* And other countless tasks

With so many tasks to do and with ones that require specific skills and knowledge, pharmacy techs need special training in order to become qualified to work in most pharmacy settings. These, coupled with a nationwide shortage of pharmacists and a growing number of pharmacy medications, have made pharmacy tech certification an important issue to many industry employers.

Here are some of our top picks for pharmacy tech certification programs available online:

RXTechSchool Pharmacy Tech Certification

RXTechSchool offers you two options to get certified under the National Pharmacy Tech Certification required in most states – Fast Track Pharmacy Technician Career Training Course and PTCB Cram Course. The first is a comprehensive training course to become a professional pharmacy technician in an online classroom environment that is ideal for students who do not need instructor support. On the other hand, Cram Course is specifically designed for those who are preparing themselves to take the PTCB exam and get a pharmacy tech certification.

Gatline Education Pharmacy Tech Certification Program

This is a nationally recognized, web-based and highly interactive pharmacy tech certification program provided by Gatline Education. The course is facilitated by experts in the field, thereby ensuring that you learn the skills needed to gain employment as a pharmacy tech in either the hospital or retail setting. According to the website, the Gatline Education Pharmacy Tech Certification Program aims to “provide graduates with the skills and knowledge that will enable them to qualify for entry-level positions in pharmacies as well as prepare for national certification.” The curriculum includes Ethics of Pharmacy Practice and Role of Pharmacy Technicians, Prescription Medications, Patient Care and Interaction, Charges and Reimbursement, Medical and Pharmaceutical terminology, and Pharmaceutical calculations.

Pima Medical Institute Pharmacy Tech Certification Program

The PIMA Pharmacy Tech Certification Program is offered in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Washington. Classes provide training in the following tasks: prepare and provide medication and other health products to patients, mixing intravenous solutions, counting tablets and labeling bottles, receiving electronic prescriptions from medical offices, handling computer order entry of prescriptions, receiving written prescriptions and requests for patient refills, etc.

Tech Gifts To Promote Your Business

Tech Gifts To Promote Your Business

When I was 10 years old, my fifth grade teacher made us write a paper that answered the question, “What does the year 2000 look like to you?” Back then I was fully anticipating a future filled with all the gadgets and doodads I had seen on the Jetson’s. I wrote about the flying cars, the assembly line of morning rituals and the robot maid, Rosie. I was completely convinced that by the year 2000, we would all be living in huge high-rise apartments with flying cars, hovercrafts, and jet packs. Well the year 2000 came and past and it looked nothing like my paper. Although, now in 2007, we don’t yet have those flying cars and interactive robot maids, we do have some pretty amazing technological gadgets that have expanded and enhanced both the consumer market and, more importantly, the promotional products industry.

With all the technological advances over the past ten years, the consumer market has created and designed entirely new products available for everyday use. Innovations like the cell phone and even DVD player have revolutionized the way people think, shop and want because companies and businesses face them with more and more options. “Technology is an extremely popular category and has a much more condensed life cycle, with new products and subcategories cropping up daily. Not only has the technology category expanded from flash drives to digital photo frames and computer accessories, technology has impacted other categories…. Writing instruments have become hybrids with the laser pointer, stylus and even USB pens,” explained Lindsay Hoylman, marketing specialist of Leed’s.

For the promotional product industry this means that companies not only have more and better products to provide to their audiences, but also it makes the industry as a whole more mainstream, said Jeff Lederer, vice president of Prime Line in a recent article called “It’s Evolution, Baby.” This article also says that technology products like iPod and mp3 accessories are as popular in the promotional product industry as in the retail market. Technology products can therefore help your campaign and company fit the needs and wants of a more advanced audience. With the overall increase in products, you can bolster the effectiveness of your entire campaign within a larger, more hi-tech consumer group. This also makes your company more current and aware of the changing market in the minds of the audience.

Products like mp3 player accessories, USB drives and digital camera accessories represents some of the most popular items to use in a promotional product and marketing campaign. They all provide plenty of space for logos and branded messages. They are all current and hot items in the market which gives your brand a trendy feel to the audience. This updated image can improve the overall perception and image of your company, thus making you a desirable and usable brand. With increased use and product satisfaction, your brand will have an overwhelming positive effect on the target and set you ahead of the competition.