Course
Descriptions
PHRA 1301
Introduction to Pharmacy
Description: Examination of the qualifications, operational guidelines,
and job duties of a pharmacy technician. Topics include definitions
of a pharmacy environment, the profile of a pharmacy technician,
legal and ethical guidelines, job skills and duties, verbal and
written communication skills, professional resources, safety
techniques, and supply and inventory techniques.
PHRA 1209
Pharmaceutical Mathematics I
Description: Pharmaceutical mathematics including reading, interpreting,
and solving calculation problems encountered in the preparation
and distribution of drugs. Conversion of measurements within
the apothecary, avoirdupois, and metric systems with emphasis
on the metric system of weight and volume. Topics include ration
and proportion, percentage, dilution and concentration, milliequivalent,
units, intravenous flow rates, and solving dosage problems.
PHRA 1205
Drug Classification
Description: Study of pharmaceutical drugs, abbreviations, classifications,
dosages, actions in the body, and routes of administration. Emphasis
on the location of drugs within a pharmacy, inventory control,
safely, and quality assurance procedures.
PHRA 1313
Community Pharmacy Practice
Description: Mastery of skills necessary to interpret, prepare,
label, and maintain records of physicians' medication orders
and prescriptions in a community pharmacy. Designed to train
individuals in the administration of supply, inventory, and data
entry. Topics include customer service and advisement, count
and pur techniques, prescription calculations, drug selection
and preparation, over-the-counter drugs, record keeping, stock
level adjustment, data input and editing, and legal parameters.
PHRA 1349
Institutional Pharmacy Practice
Description: Exploration of the unique role and practice of pharmacy
technicians in an institutional pharmacy with emphasis on daily
pharmacy operation. Topics include hospital pharmacy organization,
work flow and personnel, medical and pharmaceutical terminology,
safety techniques, data entry, packaging and labeling operations,
extemporaneous compounding, inpatient drug distribution systems,
unit dose chart fills, quality assurance, drug storage, and inventory
control.
PHRA 1441
Pharmacy Drug Therapy and Treatment
Description: Study of therapeutic agents, their classifications,
properties, actions, and effects on the human body and their
role in the management of disease. Provides detailed information
regarding drug dosages, side effects, interactions, toxicities,
and incompatibilities.
PHRA 1191
Special Topics in Pharmacy
Description: Topics address recently identified current events,
skills, knowledge, and/or attitudes and behaviors pertinent to
the technology or occupation and relevant to the professional
development of the student.
PHRA 1345
Intravenous Admixture and Sterile Compounding
Description: Mastery of skills in compounding sterile products.
Introduction to sterile products, hand washing techniques, pharmaceutical
calculations, references, safely techniques, aseptic techniques
in parenteral compounding, proper use of equipment (autoinjectors,
pumps), preparation of sterile products (intravenous, irrigation,
ophthalmic, total parenteral nutrition, and chemotherapy drugs),
and safe handling of antineoplastic drugs.
PHRA 2164 & PHRA 2165
Externship - Pharmacy Technician
Description: An experience external to the college for an advanced
student in a specialized field involving a written agreement
between the educational institution and a business or industry.
Mentored and supervised by a workplace employee, the student
achieves objectives that are developed and documented by the
college and that are directly related to specific occupational
outcomes. This may be a paid or unpaid experience. This course
may be repeated if topics and learning outcomes vary.
