Pharmacy Technician

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Pharmacy Technician

• History of Medicine and Pharmacy
• Lecture 1

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Definitions and Term

• Apothecary Latin term for pharmacist
• Clinical pharmacist Pharmacist who monitors
  patient medications in mostly inpatient settings.
• Drug education coordinator Pharmacist who helps
  set protocol in a hospital setting.
• Inpatient pharmacy Pharmacy in a hospital or
  institutional setting
• Outpatient pharmacy Community pharmacies
• Pharmacist Person who dispenses drugs and
  counsels patients

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More Definitions and Terms

• Pharmacy technician Person who assists a
  pharmacist by filling prescriptions and
  performing other nondispensing tasks.
• Pharmacy clerk Person who assists the pharmacist
  at the front counter and accepts payment for
  medication

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Important People in History

• Hippocrates Father of Medicine, Hippocratic oath
• Aristotle Classification of animals, anatomy
  based on dissection of animals
• Galen Proved blood flowed through the arteries
  not air
• Paracelsus Treat with one medication at a time,
  introduced laudanum

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Medicine in Early America

• Doctors diagnosed the conditions and prepared the
  remedies
• Cinchona bark (quinine) treat malaria
• Mercury used to treat syphilis
• Laudanum combination of opium alcohol.
  Addictive. Used as sedative, dull sensation of
  pain and treat depression

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Early Pharmacists

• First pharmacy school Philadelphias College of
  Pharmacy and Sciences, 1821
• Compounded remedies ordered by physician.
  Remedies were in medical books and were much like
  recipes.

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Early Pharmacy Technicians

• Usually family members of the pharmacist
• Transition from clerk to technician is a recent
  happening

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Pharmacy Technician Dutieswww.tsbp.state.tx.us

• Initiate and refill authorization requests
• Enter prescription data into a data processing
  system
• Take a stock bottle from the shelf for a
  prescription
• Prepare and package drug orders (count tablet,
  etc)
• Affix label to the prescription container
• Reconstitute medications

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www.tsbp.state.tx.us

• Prepackage and label prepackaged medications
• Load bulk unlabeled drugs into an automated
  dispensing system
• Compound non-sterile prescriptions
• Compound sterile pharmaceuticals (after
  completing required training)

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CE Requirements for CPhT

• 20 hours every 2 years
• 1 hour must be in pharmaceutical law
• Up to 10 hours maybe obtained at the pharmacy
  under the direction of the pharmacist
• Are online opportunities