where can i find a good book on the study of being a pharmacy technician?
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Probably borders, or perhaps the nearest college...if those fail then the internet will solve your problem somehow.
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yes do a search on college textbooks
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I found a study guide for Postal Workers at the Library.  Ask the librarian where the Civil Service Exam questions are kept.  There's usually a whole section of 'em.
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try this \nwww.books.com.tw
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http://lab.lpicn.org/pub/books/
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Look up the Bible of Clinical Chemisrty!\n"Text book of Clinical Chemistry Principles" by Tietz any edition.
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I don't know about taking a class online, maybe try and call one of the schools that does it and advertises all the time on TV they probably have online classes or may know of one.....If you get a job with a pharmacy a lot of times they pay for your training and tech test...although it is a LOT easier to get hired if you're certified....Good luck...also look at www.ptcb.org that is the Pharmacy Tech Certification Board...Thats all you really need to do is take the test...the "schooling" is a crock of shit.
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take college course\n\nthere are many books on the subject
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try pharmamanufacturing.com
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Have a look to this book:\nCareers with the pharmaceutical industry, by Stonier.\nhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470843284/026-7971232-9839662
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Pharmacy technician is a job title for a pharmacy staff member "who works under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist, and performs many pharmacy-related functions." [1] In most cases, job duties include providing medication and other health care products to patients. Pharmacy technicians often do the routine tasks associated with preparing prescribed medication, and the manual labor component of providing drugs to patients. Most pharmacy technicians have only on-the-job training, but many employers favor those who have completed a formal training and certification process. This type of training program is usually offered by the military, some hospitals, proprietary schools, vocational or technical colleges, and community colleges. As of 2002, in the United States, there were no US federal (and few state) laws making it mandatory for all technicians employed to meet this qualifying standard. However, some non-federal jurisdictions do require licensing such as the state of Virginia.\n\nIn the United Kingdom and many other countries, there are accredited programs which pharmacy technicians must complete. In the UK this is composed of an 'on the job' qualification (an NVQ level 3); and a theory based qualification (BTEC) usually completed on day-release at college or by correspondence course. Within the next few years (probably around 2008) "pharmacy technician" will become a protected job title in the UK and only those with both qualifications will be allowed to use this title by law.\n\nPharmacy technicians work in a variety of locations. According to a 2002 United States Department of Labor report, about two-thirds worked in retail pharmacies, both independently owned or part of a drugstore, grocery store or mass retailer chain. An additional 22% of pharmacy technician jobs were in hospitals, while a small portion worked in mail-order or Internet pharmacies, clinics, pharmaceutical wholesalers, and the Federal Government. The mix in the UK is of a similar balance.\n\nResponsibilities of a pharmacy technician differ depending on location. In many operations, they may manage assistants or do the work of pharmacy aides: answering telephone calls, handling money, stocking shelves, and computer data entry, among other odd jobs.\n\nPharmacy technicians who work in a hospital, nursing home or assisted-living-type facilities have additional responsibilities. In many circumstances, they will read patient charts in conjunction with a prescription, verified by both a physician and a pharmacist, before preparing and physically delivering medicine to nurses, who administer it to patients. Technicians may also be responsible for managing robotic organizational systems that stock and organize 24-hour supplies of medicine for every patient in a health care facility. Technicians package and label each dose of medication separately, either by hand or with packaging machines. These packages are co-ordinated with a computer using bar codes, and make it possible to automate pharmacy-side drug delivery: a package labeled by name, dose and expiration is cataloged in a computer, before being placed on a shelf controlled by a robotic arm until it is needed to be given to a patient. Some robots will create small containers for an individual patient that contain the medicine needed for a defined time period. Groups of these containers are then organized by pharmacy technicians and delivered to appropriate locations.\n\nThe role of the technician is likely to increase in the next few years, as more pressures are put on pharmacists to be available to consult and advise patients, rather than to simply dispense.
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Yahoo Health has it right here... (I'm a pharmacy tech...lol)\n\nhttp://health.yahoo.com/drug/;_ylt=Ahvs4cFLT9L1iVrlYo.eD92z5xcB\n\nCheck out the alphabetical index
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look in industry magazines.  College libraries tend to have a fair number of them.  Dice.com also has some info on career futures.
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Registered Pharmacists (RPh) must have a PharmD or similar degree from a accredited college of pharmacy and must register with the state pharmacy board in the state that they will practice in, some states require examinations and continuing education and states differ on how long a licence is good for.\n\nCertified Pharmacy Technicians (CPhTs) have to pass a exam given by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board and have to meet continuing education requirements as well as be licenced in the state that they are practicing in. Different states give different weight to CPhT status. Some states require it to practice as a technician, others do not require Certification to be a licenced technician but do allow CPhTs to perform tasks that licenced but non-nationally certified technicians are not allowed to do.
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Check the American Library Association.  They have many resources available for the profession including articles I believe,
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Its a lot of fun, when i was in high school my job was a Pharmacy Technician. U learn the drugs names and what the purpose is (hypertension, depression, birth control, pain etc) U can start takin a class at your local community college and become a certified pharmacy tech, and get paid more. Its a good job. I made nice and i wasnt certified, $8 a hour in the state of Virginia, if i was certified between $14-$17. Its not hard, the only hard thing is readin the doctors percription. U know how doctors got that chicken scratch writing. U have to read that and get the drug thats written. Sumtimes it might be too hard to read and u just have to ask the Phrmacist or call the actual doc and say "what the hell dude??" \n\nAlso, there is a drug test and random drug test once u get the job. Im not implying that u do drugs, just givin u a heads up. Oxycotin is one of the drugs that gets takin the most by the workers of the pharmacy, cuz its the one that will mess u up the most. Its almost a slightly watered-down version of Cocaine. Those have inventory on them and if there is a miscalculation, everyone gets tested. Just sum "gee whiz" ish
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www.pharmacy2u.co.uk\n\nor it may be with a .com