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Pharmacy
Technician 
Pharmacy Technician:
Program Description: Americare's 30 week Pharmacy
Technician Program prepares students to assist licensed Pharmacists
provide medicine and other healthcare products to patients.
Pharmacy Technicians must retrieve written prescriptions,
or requests for prescription refills, and must verify that
the information on the prescription is complete and accurate.
To prepare the prescription, Pharmacy Technicians must retrieve,
count, pour, weigh, measure and sometimes mix the medication.
Pharmacy Technicians prepare the prescription labels, select
the type of prescription container, and affix the prescription
and auxiliary labels to the container. Once the prescription
is filled, Pharmacy Technicians price and file the prescription,
which must be checked by a pharmacist before it is given to
the patient. Employment opportunities for Pharmacy Technicians
is expected to grow faster than the average through 2012 due
to the increased pharmaceutical needs of a larger and older
population.
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