Pharmacy Fundamentals

welcome everyone to your free pharmacy fundamentals.

Course, This is your first lecture in a series of

three. Well, actually learn what is a pharmacy technician?

If you never heard of a pharmacy tech, we're gonna

find out what exactly does a pharmacy tech do, And

then we'll learn, Like, why's it more beneficial to get

your certification and had a cheap recertification once you become

certified? So what exactly is a pharmacy technician?

Ah, pharmacy technician is supervised by a pharmacist.

A pharmacist has a degree, a bachelor degree in pharmacy,

and that could be our pH.

Or they have a doctorate in pharmacy, and that is

a farm deep Pharmacists thers as the manager or the

supervisor pharmacy, and they delegate responsibilities to the pharmacy technician.

These duties that Ross Paul excuse me responsibilities, they delegate

to the pharmacy.

Tech actually leaves room for the pharmacists to work on

more clinical duties that they like to say, which actually

is them engaging with the patient and counseling the patient

when the medication they're taking.

But the responsibilities of a technician requires the technician to

interact there.

The frontline interaction, the first interaction that a patient has

with the pharmacy in greeting, understanding their illness.

What, The medication that the doctor prescribed.

Understanding of it, Understanding of co pays on their meditation

history and in the pharmacy technician would do what we

call data entering.

They input all of that information to the pharmacy software

bill, the insurance company sometimes contacting that insurance company many

insurance companies throughout the day to get them at them

to pay for the medication.

And it's just a simple of clarifying misinformation.

Excuse me or getting them to approve for missing medication.

Patient goes on vacation, and they forgot their medication at

home so often, you know, we have to contact the

insurance companies to get it approved.

And so they do handle a lot of that than

they do what we call production, which is filling the

prescription, which could be counting the medication out, scoring the

medication into a bottle, labeling the packaging if it's a

cream or ointment, or I drop or solution whatever form

and then dispensing it to the patient at the register

and checking them out.

They also assist patients that are purchasing medicine over the

counter. They may not know which costs are of the

take which we all know there's so many of them.

You want the one that stops your cough?

Do you want the one that helps you cough up

more? Is this one safe for my child?

Is this one for adults on Lee?

So they're out there guiding the patients out there and

leading them back to the pharmacist to help counsel them

on their choices.

Then what?

The pharmacy technicians do what we call non discretionary duties.

The non discretionary duties are more of the that administrative

at sets administrative aspect that goes behind the running of

a pharmacy business.

Ah, those pharmacy technicians, this goes on set a lot,

but it should be set more.

Keep the pharmacy running.

Without your pharmacy technicians, you have no pharmacy.

And so the pharmacy technicians responsible for ordering supplies, ordering

inventory, restocking inventory records, Sally invoices, pulling inspired medication to

get to get money back for our medicine that was

unused on so so much more.

So the pharmacy technicians do so much regarding keeping the

business of a pharmacy running.

In addition to Philly medication I have listed here HIPPA,

they're responsible for protecting patients, privacy medication, privacy, making sure

that information is not dispensed to others without that patient

consent. Ah kam pounding If they're working in that type

of setting, converting a formulation of a prescription into a

different form.

If it comes in the tablet and the doctor wants

it in a liquid form, the pharmacy technician will do

that versus when they're in the filling process.

The production process of that prescription they would do calm,

pounding meditation therapy Management falls in line with assisting the

pharmacist with counseling of patients and identifying if they're experiencing

duplicate therapy.

But unknown to them and also unknown to their physicians,

they may have multiple physicians who do not know that

they're taking more than one type of blood pressure medication

is. So it's about reconcile ing that within their profile

and helping them understand.

Ah, you should stop taking these medicines if the doctor

prescribed this, that and the other on.

Also, I preached this a lot.

Breach teach.

There's a lot that pharmacy technicians can be strong medical

advocates for their family, their friends and their patients, because

they're building that report with their patients is so they're

able to catch.

I say no one's perfect, so they're able to catch

if the doctor tyre Lee wrote for an adult strength

first as a pediatric strength, or if the doctor wrote

for something a different form than the patient is used

to taking the used to taking the extended release and

the doctor wrote for plane and we go on Lee

Phil. What the doctor wrote for so their pharmacy technician

is very critical and catching those tights in the states.

So have you become a pharmacy technician in most states,

homes at all but most states.

You have to be 17 years of age or older

odor. In that case, you would have a high school

diploma or a G E d.

And they want you to produce some type of pharmacy.

Technician training program is not mandatory to half a pause

every time I say this is not mandatory to pursue

a pharmacy technician training program to become a pharmacy technician

but to become a certified pharmacy technician and in some

states, before you can get licensed, you have to take

a pharmacy technician training program.

So I hope is beneficial for you to go ahead

and do that as well, but not mandatory before you

too become a pharmacy technician now.

I didn't.

If you're going to get certified, which I encourage you

to do because it is much more beneficial to you

if you're going to enter into this career, you should

go ahead and get that certification.

Because again, most states require certification before you can get

your pharmacy license.

So, um, some states is vice versa.

You have to get your license, and then you can

get your certification, but in any taste.

If you have to go ahead and get that certification.

That and you have to take a pharmacy training program

again, is just much more beneficial for you to go

ahead. Just get your certification out the way so you

don't have to deal with all man.

I'm tryingto get this job as a pharmacy technician, but

I have to apply for my license and I can't

apply for my license because I'm not certified.

Okay, it's financially more beneficial.

There's usually a dollar to $2 raise I think is

actually much more.

But, um Massa raise on pay rate, um, in becoming

a certified pharmacy technician versus your town or parts who

are pharmacy personnel, pharmacy specialists or um, dependent on your

state. Ah, pharmacy specials.

Maybe higher than a certified pharmacy tech.

But, um, some states of pharmacy specialist in a pharmacy

personnel pharmacy assistant they're all considered the same bracket, but

a farm is a certified pharmacy technician, actually gets paid

more. You all are doing the same is that task,

But a certified pharmacy technician is paid more so if

you're going to pursue a pharmacy technician training program.

But what kind of course is would you take?

If you enter into the university or technical system, you

have to take what they call core courses.

These programs offer of the poem a track and or

sometimes an associate degree.

And if you're pursuing that track, they they ask you

to take these core courses core courses or math science.

Uh, and math, science, English psychology, humanity's, um, for pharmacy

tech program.

You have to take anatomy and physiology.

Ah, form of biology, English psychology, and I think there's

another course.

I can't quite remember it right now, another course as

well, and that would be considered your core courses.

You have to take those and get those out the

way. If you're entering into the technical program.

And then you'll be able to pursue your pharmacy courses,

which are basically control a pharmacy.

What we're discussing now the history of pharmacy.

On that you'll take pharmacy calculations, how to calculate those

days, supply for inhalers and in those cough serves and

how to convert that different formulation into another.

If you doing compound pharmacy and then there's pharmacology, pharmacology

is one of the toughest course.

Is depending on um, well, just depending on a lot.

Some people find it easy.

Some people find a heart is a lot of memorization,

a lot of information to absorb about drugs, several different

kinds of drugs, their classes, how they act on the

body and their organs on what are they manipulating and

just so much regarding just how drugs interact with each

other. Now, if you're not entering into the technical system,

where the university system Ah, lot of the online pharmacy

training programs just offer you the pharmacy training courses, the

pharmacy training for Matt.

I want to say regarding all of those topics, and

you have to you bypass all of those humanities and

English and biology s.

So there are two exams to take when you are

trying to get your certification.

There's the pharmacy technician certification exam that's offered by the

P. T.

C. Bean Pharmacy Technician Certification Board.

This exam is nationally recognized, accepted in all 50 states.

You will be a National Certify pharmacy technician.

When you take this exam, it's 90 questions.

It lasts about an hour and 50 minutes.

They really only grade you on 80 of the questions,

and once you're done taking the test, you'll know right

away. If you have passed, it gives you a pass

or fail as soon as you finish, and you'll know

whether or not you have to retake it again.

But again, this exam is highly recommended because it is

nationally recognized in all 50 states.

There's a second at Sam that you could take is

called the E X C P.

T. As a loan for the certification of pharmacy technicians

is offered by the National Pharmacy Technician Association.

Uh, it is marginally accepted in certain states.

Also not everywhere is two hours and 10 minutes long.

Ah, 120 questions are they only graze you think on

110 and again.

So this is over you'll receive a pass or fail

this one.

Some states require this one or they accept this one,

and some states do not.

So you have to find out which one, your state

or your your essay, your profession, Your facility.

If they prefer, you take one over the other.

I do encourage you to be careful, though, because if

you find that you might be moving in your future

or you have that type of personality where you don't

mind moving transplanting, then you don't want to get caught.

The situation where you took the e et.

Cpt. But then the new state that you move to

Onley recognizes the national certification exam.

So be wary when you're deciding on which is a

M to take.

After you become a certified pharmacy technician, you have to

maintain it every two years by completing continuing education credits.

We call them Si ese.

Ah, lot of medical professions have to complete the CEO

who maintained their licensing.

Pharmacy technicians are different.

We have to maintain we have to take continuing education

to maintain our certification.

Some states, though, do require you to take si ese

who maintain your license and your certification.

So, uh, see, Eve's are like these little quizzes.

They're articles regarding some type of new advancement in the

pharmacy field.

And then you'll take a quiz regarding that what you

read in the article and you'll get graded on it

and you earn credits.

You're in his point, and you have to maintain 20

credits off CEO every two years and submit that and

to renew your certification now, you can get the sea

east from various organizations listed here, such as the American

Association of Pharmacy Technicians, the National Pharmacy Technician Association we

mentioned earlier.

And then, if you do a Google search on pharmacy

Tech CEO, you'll find several websites that offer Ah, a

subscription to unlimited.

Si, ese.

There you could find free see ease if you hunt

for. And I'm really good at hunting mine down.

I haven't paid for C e yet, but, uh, but

if you don't wantto oh, through the stress hunting down

free Si, ese, you just pay for that subscription.

They're really affordable.

I just haven't paid for CEO, and I'm gonna see

a technician certified check for 15 years.

So if I'm just a hard battle to fight But,

uh, you could pay that that small monthly.

It's not monthly yearly subscription, usually about 30 bucks, maybe

40 and then you'll have unlimited access to see ese

for those two years to complete him and renew your

certification or renew your license.

Okay, so that is it for what is a pharmacy

technician? Ah, how to become a certified pharmacy technician and

why is really much more beneficial for you to go

ahead and get your certification out the way.

Go ahead and click on the links and the folder

for more information about what is a pharmacy technician and

also go ahead and move on to your second.

But sure, we'll just go through a walkthrough of how

to sign up for your state licensing.

Pharmacy Fundamentals

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