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Pharmacy Technician

  • All levels
  • 18 and older
  • $136
  • 1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez, Los Angeles, CA

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  • $136
  • ELAC Main Campus @ 1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez, Los Angeles, CA 91754
  • Includes Material Fee $36.00
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What you'll learn in this medical training:

Pharmacy Technicians work in pharmacies under the direction of a pharmacist. Their main responsibility is filling prescriptions according to doctors' orders. Pharmacy Technicians prepare medications for dispensing to patients. This generally includes retrieving drugs in the correct dosage form and strength, measuring the appropriate amount of drug and producing a prescription label. 

Pharmacy Technicians work with drugs to be administered orally, topically, for the eye, nose, etc. Depending upon the practice setting, a Pharmacy Technician is also involved in the admixture of drugs for intravenous use. 

Other duties include:
  • Checking inventories and ordering supplies
  • Receiving and checking in supplies               
  • Assisting customers               
  • Keeping pharmacy work areas clean               
  • Complete insurance forms               
  • Preparation of “bingo cards” for nursing home patients 
Course content includes: 
  • Pharmacy medical terminology
  • The history of pharmacy
  • The pharmacy practice in multiple environments
  • Pharmacy calculations and measurements
  • Reading and interpreting prescriptions and defining drugs by generic and brand names.  
Through classroom lecture and hands on labs, students will review dosage calculations, drug classifications, the “top 200 drugs”, I.V. flow rates, sterile compounding, dose conversions, aseptic technique, the handling of sterile products, total parental nutrition (TPN), dispensing of prescriptions, inventory control and billing and reimbursement.

Employment & Education: Pharmacy Technicians may work in retail pharmacies, mail order pharmacies, home infusion pharmacies, long term care facilities, hospitals, clinics, pharmacy benefit managers and large industrial complexes. The demand for Pharmacy Technicians continues to grow with demand expected to increase substantially through 2014. This high demand is the result of the constant availability of new drugs, the national shortage of registered pharmacists, the establishment of certified pharmacy technicians and the aging population.

Certification: This comprehensive 50-hour course will prepare students to enter the pharmacy field and to take the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board’s PTCB exam.

Pre-requisites: Minimum 18 years of age and high school completion or its equivalent.

Location notes:
  • Room numbers are provided to students once the registration is completed. 
  • Students can purchase a semester parking permit from the Community Services Office for $10 or purchase a daily permit from the dispensing machines at each parking lot/structure for $2.

Refund Policy

There are no refunds or transfers after a class begins. Requests to withdraw from a class or transfer to another Community Services class must be done 5 OR MORE DAYS prior to the first class meeting. There is a $15 service charge per class for each refund or transfer requested. If you enrolled in a class less than 5 days prior to the first class meeting, NO refunds will be given. There are no refunds or credits for absences and late registrations are not pro-rated. Missed class meetings may not be made up in another class.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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