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How To Become A Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT)
Rating: 4.0 out of 5(77 ratings)
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How To Become A Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT)

The Most Updated Information on How To Become a Certified Pharmacy Technician in 2023
Created byLorraine Lohner, MBA, BS Pharm
Last updated 8/2019
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What you'll learn

  • Have a full understanding of what pharmacy technicians do
  • Learn the changes happening with the PTCB and how it will affect you
  • Know if the state you live or practice in requires CPhT
  • Understand where your career, as a pharmacy technician, is going
  • What topics to focus on to pass the test

Course content

4 sections • 9 lectures • 59m total length

  • What Is A Pharmacy Technician?9:31

    Discover how pharmacy technicians assist pharmacists, prepare prescriptions, and support patient care behind the counter. Explore evolving roles, mandatory accreditation by 2020, and opportunities in retail, hospital, and specialty settings.

  • Pharmacy Technician Duties: DOs & DON'Ts6:36

    Master the pharmacy technician do's and don'ts: read prescription labels, handle refills, and defer patient counseling to pharmacists under OBRA 1990, while avoiding diagnosis.

Requirements

  • Having an open mind
  • Willingness to learn
  • Willingness to do some hard work
  • Apply what you've learned

Description

This course, How To Become A Certified Pharmacy Technician, is a very informative course on what's happening in the pharmacy field.  It covers the most updated information on how to become a pharmacy technician, the most important updates and changes that happened in 2020, and how it is now in 2023. 

There are so many rules, laws, and requirements that are changing in how to become a certified pharmacy technician and you want to be informed because it may affect you, as an aspiring pharmacy technician, or your practice, as a pharmacy technician.  These rules and requirements are coming from different agencies such as state boards of pharmacy and the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB).

Gone will be the days when you can just get a book, study, and take the test to be a certified pharmacy technician so, BE IN THE KNOW!

The instructor personally took both the Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam (PTCE) and the ExCPT by the NHA.  She also has over 4,000 students online and over 1,000 in her Las Vegas campuses who took the national pharmacy technician certification exam and successfully passed.  These students are now working in different pharmacy settings in Las Vegas and the rest of the United States.

Who this course is for:

  • Those who want to be in the medical field but, do not want to touch bodily fluids like blood, urine, and feces
  • Those who want an understanding of what pharmacy technicians REALLY DO
  • Pharmacy technicians who want to be nationally certified by the PTCB
  • Pharmacy technicians who want to know upcoming changes with the PTCB
  • Pharmacy technicians who are required by the state to be CPhT
  • Pharmacy technicians who are required by their employers to be CPhT
  • Those who want to know if the state they live in requires CPhT

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