Front Range Community College

On-the-job Training

• Personal/Interpersonal Knowledge and Skills
  • Present an image appropriate for the profession of pharmacy in appearance and behavior.
  • Apply self-management skills, including time, stress, and change management.
  • Demonstrate problem-solving skills.
  • Demonstrate the ability to effectively and professionally communicate with other healthcare professionals, payors and other individuals necessary to serve the needs of patients and practice.
• Foundational Professional Knowledge and Skills
  • Demonstrate ability to maintain confidentiality of patient information and understand applicable state and federal laws.
  • Perform mathematical calculations essential to the duties of pharmacy technicians in a variety of settings.
  • Practice and adhere to effective infection control procedures.
• Processing and Handling of Medications and Medication Orders Community/Dispensing Pharmacy
  • Assist pharmacists in collecting, organizing, and recording demographic and clinical information for the Pharmacists' Patient Care Process.
  • Receive, process, prepare and record prescriptions/medication orders for completeness, accuracy, and authenticity to ensure safety.
  • Participate in pharmacy compliance with professional standards and relevant legal, regulatory, formulary, contractual, and safety requirements
  • Use current best practices and standard operating procedures to ensure the safety and accuracy of medication labeling and dispensing.
  • Collect payment for medications, pharmacy services, and devices.
  • Prepare simple non-sterile medications per applicable USP chapters (e.g., reconstitution, basic ointments and creams).
  • Prepare compounded sterile preparations per applicable, current, USP Chapters and apply quality assurance measures.
  • Prepare medications requiring moderate and high level non-sterile compounding as defined by USP (e.g., suppositories, tablets, complex creams) and apply quality assurance measures.
  • Initiate, verified, and managed the adjudication of billing for complex and/or specialized pharmacy services and goods.
  • Apply accepted procedures in inventory control of medications, equipment, and devices.
  • Manage drug product inventory currently stored in equipment or devices used to ensure safety and accuracy of medication dispensing.
  • Properly stored medications
  • Prepare medications for distribution
  • Accurately create a new patient or enter data into an existing profile according to an established manual procedure or electronic procedure.
  • Apply patient and medication safety practices in aspects of the pharmacy technician's roles.
  • Demonstrate skill in the operation of a cash register, accurately make change and accurately determine those items which are taxable.
  • Use first person ad electronic systems to receive prescription/medication orders.
  • Demonstrate ability to perform compounding calculations including powder volumes, prepare dilutions from a concentrate and perform allegations.
• Patient Care, Quality and Safety Knowledge and Skills
  • Apply patient and medication safety practices in aspects of the pharmacy technician's roles.
  • Assist pharmacists in preparing, packaging, Participated in point of care testing to assist in assessing a patient’s clinical status.
  • Participate in technical and operational activities to support the Pharmacists' Patient Care Process as assigned.
  • Maintain pharmacy facilities and equipment
  • Apply quality assurance practices to pharmaceuticals, durable and non-durable medical equipment, devices, and supplies
  • Identify pharmaceuticals, durable medical equipment, devices and supplies to be ordered
  • Follow the manufacturer's recommendation and/or the pharmacy's guidelines for storage of all medications prior to distribution
  • Apply quality assurance practices to compounded pharmaceuticals
• Regulatory and Compliance Knowledge and Skills
  • Assist pharmacists in preparing, packaging, storing, recording and distributing medication products including those requiring special handling and documentation.
  • Describe and applied state and federal laws pertaining to processing, handling, and dispensing of medications including controlled substances.
  • Follow established policies and procedures to deter theft and/ or drug diversion.
  • Properly practiced in accordance with federal and state regulations regarding the scope of a pharmacy technician.
  • Follow established policies and procedures for removing from inventory expired/discounted pharmaceuticals, durable medical equipment, devices, supplies or recalled items in the same categories.
  • Follow established policies and procedures for placing pharmaceuticals, durable medical equipment, devices, and supplies in inventory under proper storage conditions.
  • Follow established policies and procedures for recording the preparation of controlled substances.
  • Follow procedures for identifying and returning dispensable, non-dispensable, and expired medications and supplies (e.g., credit return, return to stock, reverse distribution).
• Processing and Handling of Medications and Medication Orders Institutional/Hospital/Compounding Pharmacy
  • Assist pharmacists in preparing, packaging, storing, recording and distributing medication products including those requiring special handling and documentation.
  • Ensure primary and auxiliary labels are accurate, affixed properly and meet regulatory requirements.
  • Maintain pharmacy facilities and equipment, including automated dispensing equipment.
  • Use current best practices and standard operating procedures to ensure the safety and accuracy of medication labeling and dispensing.
  • Prepare simple non-sterile medications per applicable USP chapters (e.g., reconstitution, basic ointments and creams).
  • Prepare compounded sterile preparations per applicable, current, USP Chapters and apply quality assurance measures.
  • Prepare medications requiring moderate and high level non-sterile/ hazardous compounding as defined by USP (e.g., suppositories, tablets, complex creams)
  • Apply accepted procedures in inventory control of medications, equipment, and devices.
  • Manage drug product inventory currently stored in equipment or devices used to ensure safety and accuracy of medication dispensing.
  • Accurately fill medication orders
  • Prepare medications for distribution
  • Follow the manufacturer's recommendation and/or the pharmacy's guidelines for storage of all medications prior to distribution