February 3rd, 2012  Posted at   Careers Employment

A certification as a pharmacy tech can be earned by enrolling in an online program, making it convenient for full time workers, whether employed in a hospital, pharmacy or completely non-related field. This is a career that has a great potential for job openings now and in the years to come. A person employed in a pharmacy who wants to further their education and career potential can continue their present job while studying for the certification by taking online pharmacy technician classes.

An online course will provide you with the opportunity to schedule your study and class work time around your daily busy schedule. In order to pass the certification exam, a training program is necessary, and one that suits your time frame is ideal. Major universities and colleges are offering online programs to work towards the certification, or if you decide to further your education, seek various degrees in this field leading up to becoming a pharmacist.

There are many additional advantages to pursuing an online program. You have no transportation problems or costs. There is no concern with arriving late for class or missing a class, should unexpected events occur. You will have the option to work longer hours or overtime at your current job if the opportunity arises and you choose to do so.

You also get many of the benefits of a traditional class as well. Online schools often have boards for students to collaborate. Teachers and classmates facilitate discussions through many means. There are also several programs available such as dropbox that make sharing documents with your classmates simple.

Now you will need to be motivated. There will be no physical presence pushing you to complete your tasks on time. Don’t trick yourself into thinking that you can just slide by because the course is online. You will need to ready, study, and participate in order to earn passing marks. Read more… »

February 2nd, 2012  Posted at   Careers Employment
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You may be planning to make your career in Pharmacy field by becoming a Pharmacy Technician. But, are you aware of the various Degrees and Certification that can be availed by completing different types of training programs. But, before we continue with the technician degree and certification, let us find out, who pharmacy working personnel are and, how degrees are helpful in their pharmacy career perusal.

Pharmacy Technicians

Pharmacy professionals are these working individuals, who aid a licensed pharmacist in running his medication store, by helping him in prescription preparation, offer safe and quality customer care and services, provide medications to patients, perform administrative duties, inform them about various effects of the drugs, look after cash counter, bottle labeling, arrange and pack drugs, and perform multiple common pharmacy works.

A technician works in different types of pharmacy settings, such as drug store, retail pharmacies, chain pharmacies, hospital pharmacies, super market medication store and so on. He/she is also well versed with state and federal pharmacy law, rules and regulations, which are essential for safe and effective customer and patient services.

Degrees

Though, it is not necessary to pursue any formal academic course for working in a Pharmacy but, availing the proper education, training and certification highly brighten their job prospects and provide them opportunities to earn higher salary. The advancement in medical science and technology, and discovery of numerous new life saving drugs have also prompted Pharmacy owners to employ professionalized, knowledgeable and skillful technicians. Read more… »

February 1st, 2012  Posted at   Careers Employment
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If you are planning to work in a Pharmacy with better salary then, you must obtain Pharmacy Technician Certification. The certification can get you registered with specific State Board of Pharmacy and offer you better career prospect with better job opportunity and higher salary.

In order to get the Certification, it is necessary that, a pharmacy technician must pass the competency evaluation test administered by PTCB. The passing of the exam can earn PTCB Certification. The test is also objective competency and knowledge assessment of the technician, which is required for safe and effective service to the patients and customers of the pharmacy. PTCB is a nationally accredited certification program.

Certification Council and Pharmacy Technician Resource Panel prepare the PTCB Certification test materials. The panel consists of PES testing experts, CPhTs, pharmacists, pharmacy technician educators from various community and hospital pharmacy practice settings, institutions, specialties and locations. The complete examination framework also reflects the actual job conditions and performances, duties and responsibilities of a drug store technician, which he/she performs for carrying out various pharmacies related functions.

Certification Examination has below given features:

• Test consists of total 140 multiple choice questions, out of which 125 questions are multi-choice scoring and 15 questions are non-scoring.
• Non scoring questions do not score but assist in future examination and quality testing.
• The student needs to answer all questions for better scoring.
• 4 questions options are offered for answering, where one answer is correct.
• The final score is calculated on the basis of the total questions answered.
• The duration of the test is 3 hours. Read more… »