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Pharmacy Technician

Pharmacy Technician. History of Medicine and Pharmacy Lecture 1. Definitions and Term. Apothecary: Latin term for pharmacist Clinical pharmacist: Pharmacist who monitors patient medications in mostly inpatient settings.

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Pharmacy Technician

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  1. Pharmacy Technician History of Medicine and Pharmacy Lecture 1

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Early Pharmacists • First pharmacy school: Philadelphia’s College of Pharmacy and Sciences, 1821 • Compounded remedies ordered by physician. Remedies were in medical books and were much like recipes.

  7. Early Pharmacy Technicians • Usually family members of the pharmacist • Transition from clerk to technician is a recent happening

  8. 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

  9. 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)

  10. 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

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