Pharmacy Technology
Division of Health Sciences > Programs > Pharmacy Technology
Program Overview
Mission Statement
The Pharmacy Technology Program at Vance-Granville Community College seeks to provide qualified students with the technical skills and knowledge needed to practice in a variety of pharmacy settings. In addition, this program will give the student the knowledge base needed to pass the National Pharmacy Technician Certification Examination offered by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board, PTCB.
The Pharmacy Technology Program curriculum prepares individuals to assist the pharmacist in duties that a technician can
legally perform and to function within the boundaries prescribed by the pharmacist and the employment agency.
Graduates will maintain patients' records; fill prescriptions; maintain inventories; set up, package, and label medication doses; prepare solutions and intravenous admixtures; and perform clerical duties, including insurance, billing, adjudication, and 3rd party reconciliation.
Graduates may be employed in hospitals, nursing homes, private and chain drug stores, research laboratories, wholesale drug companies, pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities and PBM call centers. Graduates will be prepared to take the National Certification Examination developed by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board.
The Pharmacy Technology Program at Vance-Granville Community College seeks to provide qualified students with the technical skills and knowledge needed to practice in a variety of pharmacy settings. In addition, this program will give the student the knowledge base needed to pass the National Pharmacy Technician Certification Examination offered by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board, PTCB.
The Pharmacy Technology Program curriculum prepares individuals to assist the pharmacist in duties that a technician can
legally perform and to function within the boundaries prescribed by the pharmacist and the employment agency.Graduates will maintain patients' records; fill prescriptions; maintain inventories; set up, package, and label medication doses; prepare solutions and intravenous admixtures; and perform clerical duties, including insurance, billing, adjudication, and 3rd party reconciliation.
Graduates may be employed in hospitals, nursing homes, private and chain drug stores, research laboratories, wholesale drug companies, pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities and PBM call centers. Graduates will be prepared to take the National Certification Examination developed by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board.
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