Jim and Pat, This is quite interesting, as it is the first time I have read of a pharmacy technician course being offered at a high school (usually, this course is found at community colleges). Pharmacy technicians do the technical work that assists us phamacists in managing medication preparation and distribution. In community pharmacies, they do data entry and prepare medication for dispensing to the patient by retrieving, labeling, and arranging the finished prescription products as well as do all the supportive tasks such as checking in medication shipments. In the hospital, they do similar work, but it is much more extensive in that they prepare all the compounded sterile products (intravenous mixtures) at the pharmacists' direction. It has only been during this decade that pharmacy technician positions have required state licensure in the U.S. Pharmacy technology is a superb occupation in itself, but it is also ideal preparation for getting to know what the pharmacist profession is all about, and is excellent experience to have when applying for admission to pharmacy school. As one of the students said, it could be used as a steppingstone to nursing, too (one of the pharmacy technicians in my hospital progressed to a leadership position in nursing).
Education in the metric system is required of all pharmacy technicians. Paul T. ----- Original Message ----- From: Pat Naughtin To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: 22 February, 2010 23:53 Subject: [USMA:46728] Pharmacy course in Tennessee Dear Jim Frysinger, This looks local (sort of) to you in Tennessee http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20100222/ARTICLES/2225010/1011/NEWS?Title=Florence-High-adds-pharmacy-program where they write: The curriculum prepares students for the exam by covering such pertinent areas to pharmacy as math, the metric system and the technical as well as generic names of medications. Cheers, Pat Naughtin Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, that you can obtain from http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at pat.naugh...@metricationmatters.com or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
