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About the Course

The Pharmacy Technician Essentials course provides an in-depth look at what a career in a pharmacy will look like. Through several lessons, students learn the ins and outs of a pharmacy setting and the meaning of the terminology used daily within a pharmacy environment. This course also provides a deep dive into the purpose of the top 200 most commonly prescribed medications and drug routes and formulations. Students will be able to demonstrate correct processing of medication orders, preparation, storage, and distribution of medications, by the end of the course. On top of knowing the medications being prescribed, students must also learn how to use pharmacy equipment, including management software and reading of prescriptions. At the completion of this course, students should have a solid understanding of what their day-to-day tasks will be within a pharmacy environment and how to use the necessary tools to excel in their new career. Course objectives include: - Identify the primary functions of different pharmacy organizations - Discuss the different roles of the pharmacy technician - Describe the common drugs and their uses, drug routes and formulations, and factor affecting drug activity - Understand pharmacy management software, as well as reading and interpreting prescriptions...

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By punnajee d

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Aug 19, 2024

A great pleasure to have this certificate and ultimately have the Specialization Certificate on Pharmacy Technician Fundamentals with the great support of the Academic Staff and the members of the Coursera panel. A Lot of thanks for All of them who taught me and guided me to achieve this.

By Bennett A

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Jul 19, 2024

This provided good materials to prepare you in the field or while waiting for someone to hire you as a Pharmacy Tech Trainee!

By DBolitho

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Jan 16, 2024

I had so much fun thanks Med Certs & Coursera

By Crescent M

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Sep 30, 2023

I really liked the course!!!

By Tatyana L

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Aug 25, 2024

Good to know

By Uswa R

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Apr 15, 2024

good

By Brandi R

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Apr 24, 2024

There are a lot of words spelled wrong and that can make the difference in pharmacy courses being that a lot of words sound alike and look alike as one of the modules stated. I think someone should go over this course and fix those misspelled words.

By Martin S

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Sep 20, 2023

The Professor Gets an A. She knows her stuff, and that's a lot if she's a PharmD. If I were director, I would have the instructor behind a desk pointing to charts, or having charts on pop-up screens; a little stop-action between instructor, chart and supplemental video; you see her as she's narrating, then you see the chart or list as she's talking about, then you see the professor and the chart together. She's a pharmacist, so let's see her variously; sometimes in a nice outfit that a 1st class professor would wear, sometimes wearing what a pharmacist would wear; placed in a pharmacy lab setting, especially in the videos where she talks about the Lab-Equipment. For Dosage-Calculations, which were never presented, have her do it kinda like Khan-Academy does it; Sal-Khan talks to the user as he does the calculation and explains it. Most of Sal's math videos are less than 10 minutes; a lot of them less than 5-minutes; step-by-step in small chunks, just like Jaime Escalante also explains it on Stand and Deliver. Make her look 1st-Class ... She'll appreciate it. ... As for the course itself ... Even though I don't want to: **The Course gets an F. ** **Why: The exams test on material that hasn't been presented. This course is riddled throughout with these kinds of errors. The final exam tests on calculations that weren't presented at all ... anywhere in the course. I got a 93% on the 1st-attempt, because I'm a certified Math-Teacher with 2 master's degrees. Your course is supposed to be very do-able for the average high school graduate. How can it be when you test on material before it's presented, or on material that is never presented at all?? Pharmacy is in the applied sciences and is very useful. You get to be in the lab working with lab stuff; making medicine that is going to save people/improve their lives. Have some fun with it. Dub in some MASH songs and scenes, Doogie Hauser, ER, Marcus Welby; show Hollywood doing pharmacy stuff. Make it look cool, because it is. If you fix the tests; show those calculations so users can actually do them, and the course will get an A.