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PENN FOSTER CAREER SCHOOL
Distance Learning & Online Career Diplomas

Pharmacy Technician Programs

With Penn Foster Career School's distance learning pharmacy technician programs, you can earn your pharmacist technology career diploma in as little as one year, from home. You do not need any previous experience - just the desire to succeed and a willingness to work hard.

When you complete this pharmacy technician program, you will have learned every important part of a pharmacy technician's work, including:

• Assisting the pharmacist with everyday duties
• Compounding
• Dosage forms
• Pharmaceutical calculations
• Pharmaceutical dispensing
• Poison and drug emergencies
• Preparing prescriptions for patients
• Prescribing drugs
• Receiving prescriptions from doctors and hospitals
• Regulations for drug development
• Routes of administration
• Understanding adverse drug reactions
• Verifying insurance
• Verifying prescription information
• Pharmacy technician programs include a valuable work experience option to help you get started on your new career

Pharmacy technician professionals are generally employed by retail pharmacies, hospitals and other health care facilities. Among their other duties, pharmacy technicians fill orders for unit doses and prepackaged pharmaceuticals under the supervision and direction of a pharmacy supervisor or staff pharmacist.

Penn Foster Career School is accredited by the DETC and is a world leader in distance learning. Unlike conventional pharmacy technician programs, with Penn Foster Career School, you can learn on your own time, in your own home, and at your own pace. Study guides and lessons will be shipped to your door, and are also accessible in PDF format for online study. You'll learn independently, but not alone, with unparalleled student services and unlimited instructional support.

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