
Discover the PTCB pharmacy technician certification exam structure, the four content domains, and study strategies using practice questions, flashcards, and a full-length practice exam.
Explore the top 200 medications, highlighting generic and brand names, indications, interactions, adverse effects, and essential drug classes from gout and NSAIDs to DMARDs and antihypertensives.
Survey of the top 200 medications, covering antifungals and antivirals, antiretrovirals for HIV, anticonvulsants, Parkinson's and dementia drugs, and key drug interactions.
Explore dosage forms and routes of administration, including tablets, capsules, topicals, solutions, suspensions, suppositories, patches, injections, nasal sprays, and inhalers. Identify benefits, limitations, and application considerations for each form.
Explore routes of administration from oral and buccal to parenteral, topical, inhalation, and intranasal, highlighting first pass metabolism, bioavailability, and examples like insulin, nicotine gum, and nitroglycerin.
Discover equipment and supplies for drug administration in pharmacy practice, including injections, insulin syringes, vaccines, glucometers, spacers and nebulizers, and solutions and suspensions.
Master narrow therapeutic index medications and their small therapeutic windows, and learn to monitor drug levels and interactions to prevent toxicity.
Differentiate drug, food, and disease interactions, assess bleeding risk with anticoagulants, and know when to alert a pharmacist for safe patient care.
Learn safe medication disposal options, including take-back programs, disposal bins, and disposal packets, while understanding when flushing or trashing is appropriate and the risks of improper disposal.
Explore the controlled substances act and five schedules, understand the DEA roles, and master emergency and partial fills, plus key forms like 222, 224/424, 225, 363, 41, and 106.
This comprehensive Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) exam review course is designed to provide pharmacy technician students with the knowledge and confidence needed to pass the certification exam and excel in their careers. The course covers a wide range of critical topics to ensure a thorough understanding of key concepts that are essential to the pharmacy technician role.
Students will review detailed information on the top 200 medications, including brand and generic names, indications, critical drug interactions and side effects. The course also covers federal pharmacy law to ensure compliance with regulatory standards and guidelines. In addition, the curriculum includes dosage forms, providing an understanding of different methods for administering medications, and a focus on high-risk medications to emphasize safety practices in handling and dispensing. Controlled substances and regulations surrounding their management are explored, along with medication safety procedures to minimize errors.
The course also provides an in-depth look at non-sterile compounding techniques. Calculations, which are crucial to accurate medication dispensing, are thoroughly covered, as are common pharmacy abbreviations to prepare students for real-world communication in the pharmacy setting.
With interactive lessons, and real-world examples, this review course offers all the tools needed to confidently take the PTCB exam and succeed in the demanding yet rewarding field of pharmacy.