Pharmacy Technician Certification (CPhT) Course

Certiﬁed Pharmacy Technician (CPhT)

Fully Online, Self-Paced and Instructor-Assisted pharmacy technician training course

100% Tuition Refund If You Don’t Land a Job in the Healthcare Industry

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$2,600.00

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Why Certified Pharmacy Technician?

Certified pharmacy technicians are in high demand.

Pharmacy technicians play a crucial role in providing safe and effective patient care, including managing inventory, receiving prescription requests from patients and doctors' offices, accurately measuring medication amounts, establishing and maintaining patient records, accepting payment for prescriptions, and processing insurance claims.

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Why Us?

Our fully online self-paced program will prepare you for a nationally accredited industry certification exam in as little as 12 weeks!

Flexible On-demand Virtual Learning

Interactive and engaging lessons with practical labs and real-life simulations will prepare you for the hands-on training externship portion of our program with Walgreens / CVS Pharmacies and others.
Interactive & Engaging Curriculum

With our training program, you will be fully prepared to successfully pass the NHA or PTCB exam and find your way into the job market as a CPhT. We have designed and developed a comprehensive training program with many practice opportunities for you to feel comfortable with the exam. You will always have an instructor available to answer any questions you may have.
Externship Placement

We partnered with CVS and Walgreens to provide externship placements for our students. This externship will provide students with extensive hands-on training and allow them to apply the knowledge and skills they gained from the course to a real pharmacy setting.

Instructional Content Components

Our comprehensive training course covers topics such as drug and medical terminology, self-management skills, patient interaction and pharmacy math.

All-inclusive online access to course materials available immediately upon enrollment.
12-month access to the course materials.
Six practice exams (NHA/CPhT).
Comprehensive dosage-calculation training .
Audio narration for each page and video.
Quizzes for each module to assess topic comprehension. Assessment contains rationales explaining correct and incorrect answers.
Supplemental practice exam with assessment questions.
Nationally accredited certification exam fee is covered by us (once).
Externship Program

This Course Offers the Following:

Fundamental Knowledge for Pharmacy Technician (20 modules)

Externship Placement: CVS / Walgreens

Complete Study Guide (8 modules)

Practice Tests (Six)

Certification Exam ExCPT or PTCB

Immersive and Interactive Curriculum

Clinical Skills, Fundamental Knowledge, Externship

Course Curriculum

1. Welcome!
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Course Syllabus & Planning Your Schedule
  FREE PREVIEW
3. Course Details and Assignments
  FREE PREVIEW
4. Meet Your Instructors and Externship Coordinator
  FREE PREVIEW
5. Meet Your Classmates
6. Instructions on Accessing Your NHA Portal
7. Advance Planning for the Certification Exam (NHA)
  FREE PREVIEW
1. Responsibilities of a Pharmacy Technician
2. PowerPoint: Introduction and Basic Overview CPhT
3. Introduction and Basic Overview: NHA Portal
4. Discussion Post Activity
5. Critical Analysis: of Early Pharmaceutical Discoveries: A Comparative Analysis with Modern Medicine
6. Emily’s Law
1. Video Presentation: Anatomy and Physiology
2. Human Organ Systems
3. PowerPoint: Integumentary System
4. PowerPoint: Muscular System
5. PowerPoint: Nervous & Sensory
6. PowerPoint: Cardiovascular & Lymphatic
7. PowerPoint: Respiratory System
8. PowerPoint: Digestive and Urinary Systems
9. PowerPoint: Endocrine System
10. PowerPoint: Reproductive System
11. Basic Anatomy and Physiology
12. Basic Anatomy and Physiology: NHA Portal
13. Clinic Scenario Questions.
14. Case Study: Shane’s Daycare Incident
1. Web Resources: Medical Terminology Introduction
2. Overview of Common Medical Terminology Prefixes
3. PowerPoint: Drug and Medical Terminology
4. Drug and Medical Terminology: NHA Portal
5. Understanding Prescription Abbreviations
6. Discussion Activity: In the Clinic- Abbreviations
1. Introduction to Pharmacology
2. PowerPoint: Introduction to Pharmacology
3. Pharmacokinetics & Pharmacodynamics
4. Pharmacology Presentation
5. Basic Pharmacology: NHA Portal
6. Pharmacology - Pharmacokinetics
7. Pharmacokinetics Discussion Post
1. Basics of Infection Prevention
2. Pharmacy & Infection Control
3. PowerPoint: Infection Control, Wellness, and Disease Prevention
4. Infection Control, Wellness, and Disease Prevention: NHA Portal
5. Case Study Discussion Post
1. Web Resource : Understanding Prescriptions
2. PowerPoint: Prescription Medication- General
3. Generic Vs. Branded Drugs
4. Medication Errors
5. Prescription Medications: NHA Portal
6. Research Assignment
1. What are Schedule Drugs?
2. PowerPoint: Prescription Medication- Controlled Substances
3. Medications: Controlled Substances: NHA Portal
4. Case Study Discussion Activity
5. Written Assignment: Calculating DEA Numbers
1. The Dispensing Process
2. PowerPoint: Dispensing Process
3. The Dispensing Process: NHA Portal
4. Prescription Drug Dispensing Errors
5. Case Study Discussion Activity
1. Web Resource: A Review of Conversion Factors
2. PowerPoint: Pharmacy Calculations
3. Pharmacy Calculations
4. Common Abbreviations and Symbols Used in Pharmacy Practice
5. Written Assignment:  General Requirements of a Written Prescription
1. PowerPoint: Commonly Prescribed Interventions
2. Commonly Prescribed Interventions: NHA Portal
3. Research Activity: Insulin
4. Case Study, Discussion Activity
1. PowerPoint: Managed Care Prescriptions
2. Managed Care Prescriptions: NHA Portal
3. Research Activity: Medicare D
1. PowerPoint: Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medications
2. The Most Common OTC Medications
3. Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medications: NHA Portal
4. Research and Reflection:Misuse of an OTC Medicine
5. Activity
1. Self Management Skills, Communication, and Teamwork
2. PowerPoint: Self Management Skills
3. Self Management Skills, Communication, and Teamwork: NHA Portal
4. Discussion Post Pharmacy Scenario
1. PowerPoint: Patient Interaction
2. Communication Skills
3. Patient Interaction: NHA Portal
4. Research of Pharmacy Technician’s Code of Ethics
1. PowerPoint: An Overview of Federal Privacy Requirements
2. An Overview of Federal Privacy Requirements: NHA Portal
3. Most Common HIPAA Violations
4. What Are The 4 Ds of Medical Negligence?
5. Research Paper on HIPAA Violation
1. PowerPoint: Non-Dispensing Duties
2. Non-dispensing Duties: NHA Portal
3. Activity: Visit Your Local Pharmacy
4. Activity: Pharmacy Recall
1. PowerPoint: Unit Dose Systems and Medication Repackaging
2. Unit Dose Systems and Medication Repackaging: NHA Portal
3. Activity: Single-Unit and Unit-Dose Packages of Medications
1. PowerPoint: Non-Sterile Product Compounding
2. Non-Sterile Product Compounding: NHA Portal
3. Video: Non-Sterile Compounding
1. PowerPoint: Sterile Product Compounding
2. Sterile Compounding, How it Should Work
3. Sterile Product Compounding: NHA Portal
1. PowerPoint: Emergency Situations
2. Emergency Situations: NHA Portal
3. Research Natural Disaster in the United States
1. First Practice Exam
1. Description of Study Guide
2. 1- Overview of Responsibilities of a Pharmacy Technician
3. Quiz: Pharmacy Technician Overview
4. 2- Law, Regulations, and Controlled Substances
5. Quiz: Laws, Regulations, and Controlled Substances
6. 3- Classifications and Frequently Prescribed Medications
7. Quiz: Drug Classifications and Frequently Prescribed Medications
8. 4- Prescription and medication order intake and entry
9. Quiz: Prescription and medication order intake and entry
10. 5- Preparing and Dispensing Prescriptions
11. Quiz: Preparing and Dispensing Prescriptions: Overview
12. 6- Calculations
13. Quiz: Calculations
14. 7- Unit Dose, and Repackaging
15. Quiz:Unit Dose, and Repackaging
16. 8- Medication Safety and Quality Assurance
17. Quiz: Medication Safety and Quality Assurance
1. Second practice exam
1. Supplemental Practice Exam

About this course

$2,600.00
127 lessons
0 hours of video content

$2,600.00

2 x $1350.00

4 x 695.00

Flexible On-demand Virtual Learning

Interactive & Engaging Curriculum

Externship Placement

Welcome

Module 1: Introduction & Basic Overview

Module 2: Basic Anatomy and Physiology

Module 3: Drug and Medical Terminology

Module 4: Basic Pharmacology for Pharmacy Technicians

Module 5: Infection Control, Wellness, and Disease Prevention

Module 6: Prescription Medications, General

Module 7: Prescription Medications: Controlled Substances

Module 8: The Dispensing Process

Module 9: Pharmacy Calculations

Module 10: Commonly Prescribed Interventions

Module 11: Managed Care Prescriptions

Module 12: Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medications

Module 13: Self Management Skills, Communication, and Teamwork

Module 14: Patient Interaction

Module 15: An Overview of Federal Privacy Requirements

Module 16: Non-dispensing Duties

Module 17: Unit Dose Systems and Medication Repackaging

Module 18: Non-sterile Product Compounding

Module 19: Sterile Product Compounding

Module 20: Emergency Situations

First Practice Test

ExCPT Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) Review Guide

Second Practice Test

Supplemental Practice Tests

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