Pharmacy Technician Jobs

Pharmacy technician are the front-end persons you see at pharmacies. It is they who actually do the routine work of dispensing medicines - receiving prescriptions, checking for their completeness, retrieving the medication, counting, weighing or otherwise measuring it, preparing the prescription labels, selecting suitable container and labeling it. The filled prescription is then priced and filed, and checked by a pharmacist before being given to the patient.

Becoming a Pharmacy Technician

As would be clear from the above, the pharmacy tech job require less drug-related knowledge than is needed for a pharmacist but much more knowledge than what a layperson has.

You have to become a certified pharmacy technician by passing an exam to be eligible for a pharmacy technician job. Technician training gives the trainees the skills and knowledge needed to perform the kind of work discussed above.

After completing training, you would typically have to get a state license to work as pharmacy technician.With high of pharmacy technician salary , this job could be improve your income and the best on job in the future. Pharmacy technicians have also to attend specified hours of continuing education through contact classes to be eligible for re-certification every two years. Pharmacy technician jobs are estimated to grow faster than most categories of jobs.