2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
    Mar 14, 2025  
2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook
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PHAR 100B - Introduction to Pharmacy Practice


Credits: 3
Description
To provide an overview of the pharmacy profession and the roles of the pharmacist and the pharmacy technician. Topics include profession evolution, pharmacy law and ethics, professional standards, pharmacy operations, professionalism, and employment.

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. Identify states of development of the pharmaceutical profession.
  2. Differentiate between the job characteristics and responsibilities of the Pharmacist and the Pharmacy Technician.
  3. Explain the duties and responsibilities of pharmacy support personnel; including legal aspects and ethics governing pharmacy practice.
  4. Evaluate pharmaceutical medical terms, abbreviations and symbols commonly used in the prescribing, dispensing, and charting of medications in both institutional and community pharmacy settings.
  5. Investigate the processes used for preparing, filling, and dispensing medications; to include purchasing, inventory controls, and patient profile management.

Prerequisite: Admission to the Pharmacy Technician Program
Corequisite: None
Graded: Letter Grade



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