The Pharmacy Technician Program Transforming Lives

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The Pharmacy Technician Program Transforming
LivesOne Student At a Time

• Eastern Long Island Academy of Applied Technology
• Instructor Laurie Jessen

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Definition of a Pharmacy Technician

• Assist licensed pharmacist
• Completes tasks that do not require professional
  judgment of the pharmacist
• Provides effective, appropriate safe pharmacy
  services

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Roles and Responsibilities of the Pharmacy
Technician

• Management of Pharmacy Operations
• Purchasing
• Receiving
• Record keeping
• Inventory control

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Roles and Responsibilities of the Pharmacy
Technician

• Financial Management Health Insurance
• Billing
• Claim forms
• On-line adjudication

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Roles and Responsibilities of the Pharmacy
Technician

• Hospital Pharmacy
• Receive orders
• Computer Data input
• Fill medication orders
• Prepare intravenous medications
• Maintain records

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Roles and Responsibilities of the Pharmacy
Technician

• Retail/Community Pharmacy
• Receive prescriptions
• Computer data input
• Prepare prescription
• Customer service

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Roles and Responsibilities of the Pharmacy
Technician

• Retail/Community Pharmacy
• Purchasing inventory control
• Assist in patient education
• Insurance on-line adjudication
• Cashier

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Roles and Responsibilities of the Pharmacy
Technician

• Advanced Pharmacy Services
• Compound medications
• Prepare nuclear medications
• Home Care services

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Internships

• Provide students with real world experience
• Promote positive workplace experience
• Enable student to apply skills learned in
  classroom
• Assist student to develop marketable skills
• Prepares student for continuing education

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Internships

• Paid or unpaid
• Provided during class time or after school
• Students provide own transportation

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How to obtain an Internship

• Work with teacher and work-study coordinator
• Complete a job search in class
• Prepare resume
• Complete appropriate paperwork

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Business Partners

• Walgreens
• Shoprite
• Sal-U-med
• K-Mart
• Target

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Business Partners

• Prescription Den
• Walmart
• Shirley Drugs Surgical
• St. Charles Hospital
• Mather Memorial Hospital

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Business Partners

• Waldbaums
• King Kullen
• CVS
• Slater Pharmacy
• Prescription Center Surgical

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Where are the Jobs?

• Community Pharmacy
• Hospitals
• Mail Order
• Nuclear Medicine
• Pharmaceutical Sales
• Warehouse

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Benefits to the Student?

• Develop 21st century skills
• Problem solving skills
• Explore career options
• Time management skills
• Financial literacy
• Preparation for college

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Benefits to the Parent?

• Your child will become
• Self-sufficient
• Self-confident
• A mature individual
• Productive member of society

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Benefits to the Community?

• Work-force ready
• Posses 21st century skill
• Pool of entry-level employees
• Meet immediate staffing needs

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Questions?

• Contact Eastern Long Island Academy of Applied
  Technology _at_286-6500
• Or
• email Laurie Jessen ljessen_at_esboces.org

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Eastern Suffolk BOCES Board and Administration
The Eastern Long Island Academy of Applied
Technology, a program of Eastern Suffolk BOCES,
does not discriminate against any employee,
student, applicant for employment, or candidate
for enrollment on the basis of sex, gender, race,
color, religion or creed, age, weight, national
origin, marital status, disability, sexual
orientation, military or veteran status, domestic
violence victim status, genetic predisposition or
carrier status, or any other classification
protected by Federal, State, or local law. This
policy of nondiscrimination includes access by
students to educational programs, student
activities, recruitment, appointment and
promotion of employees, salaries, pay, and other
benefits. Eastern Suffolk BOCES also provides
equal access to the Boy Scouts and other
designated youth groups. Eastern Suffolk BOCES
fully complies with all applicable rules and
regulations pertaining to civil rights for
students and employees (e.g., Title IX of the
Education Amendments of 1972, 504 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Titles VI and VII of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Dignity for All
Students Act, 303 of Age Discrimination Act of
1975, the Americans with Disabilities Act of
1990, and the Boy Scouts of America Equal Access
Act of 2001). Inquiries regarding the
implementation of the above laws should be
directed to either of the Eastern Suffolk BOCES
Civil Rights Compliance Officers the Assistant
Superintendent for Human Resources, 201 Sunrise
Highway, Patchogue, NY 11772, 631-687-3029,
ComplianceOfficers_at_esboces.org or the Associate
Superintendent for Educational Services, 201
Sunrise Highway, Patchogue, NY 11772,
631-687-3056, ComplianceOfficers_at_esboces.org.
Inquiries may also be addressed to the Office for
Civil Rights at the US Department of Education,
32 Old Slip, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10005,
646-428-3800, OCR.NewYork_at_ed.gov.