Pharmacy Technician

The many miracles of medication

Pharmacy Technicians are skilled professionals trained to perform clerical duties and tasks related to preparing and dispensing of pharmaceutical drugs.

As the demand for prescription medicines from an aging population grows and the rates of certain chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity continues to increase among all age groups, the need for trained and licensed Pharmacy Technicians is growing at an increasing pace.

The Pharmacy Technician program at North-West College provides the education and training needed to begin a career working in a pharmacy, hospital, pharmaceutical lab and other healthcare facilities.

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As a Pharmacy Technician, your job tasks and responsibilities may include: receiving incoming prescriptions, transcribing physician’s orders, calculating doses, using drug distribution systems, preparing IVs, packaging medications, filling patient cassettes, labeling prescriptions, and interfacing with patients. Best of all, your career skills will travel with you wherever you go.

Pharmacy Technicians typically perform the following tasks:

Collecting information to fill prescriptions from customers or health professionals
Measuring amounts of medication for prescriptions
Sterile and non-sterile drug compounding
Packaging and labeling prescriptions
Organizing inventory and alerting pharmacists to shortages of medications or supplies
Accepting payment for prescriptions and process insurance claims
Recording customer or patient prescription information
Answering customer phone calls
Arranging for customers to speak with pharmacists to answer questions about medications or other health matters

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