Posted March 16th, 2015
By Kris Powers
We received the following letter from a student who recently completed our Pharmacy Technician Professional Program and wanted to share, as it exemplifies everything we hope our courses will provide for students.
Dear Ed4Career:
First, I would like to thank you and your staff at Ed4Career for providing a very comprehensive course for pharmacy technician.
The course gave me an understanding of the history of pharmacy and how it has evolved through the years. The safeguards that have been placed into effect by the different agencies regulating the production and distribution of medications for the safety of the public to the current laws that are in place today to protect the patient as well as the pharmacist.
It gave me glimpse of what it would be like to work in a hospital setting, calculating drug dosages for pediatrics as well as the elderly and the issues they face with medications.
The chapters on the different body systems and how the medications are metabolized and used by the different systems, how long the medications are active in the body (half-life) and how they are finally excreted were extremely informative and easy to understand.
The math course (math not being my favorite) was a fantastic refresher for my basic math skills and well as developing my skills to work better as a technician in my current position. The ability to calculate day supply, drug dosage and do conversions has already become invaluable.
Many of the lists in the book I have shared with the other technicians in the pharmacy such as the sig codes that should not be used, the large list of look-a-like sound-a-like medications, and at the beginning of most chapters a listing of the drugs used for that system including brand and generic names and their indications.
The course also provided other materials that will continue to be helpful everyday such as websites for researching information, how to join social networks with other pharmacy technicians, where to find CE’s to meet state requirements to maintain our license and keep our skills current.
I am excited that I found the course through my local university and that I was allowed the opportunity to complete it. The information it provided will always be valuable and I personally feel that it gave me an advantage as a technician that people that were “grandfathered” into being techs may have missed.
Thank you again for everything you and the staff you work with have done, I fully feel that it is a successful course and I would (and have) recommend it to others wanting to get a start in the field of pharmacy.
Sincerely,
Robert
Thank you to Robert and to other students who have reached out to let us know that our courses have made a difference in their lives! Visit https://Ed4Career.com/ to view our complete course catalog and find a course or program in Career Training, Professional Development, Personal Enrichment or Health and Human Services today!
