From the executive summary: 'Market trends point towards growing population, increasing prescription requirements, a shortage of pharmacists and increased awareness of patient care and safety issues. This has forced many pharmaceutical companies to provide a strong support layer of competent, professional pharmacy technicians to manage growing volumes of non-judgmental work...
The Pharmacy Technician Certification Board has announced a milestone of 300,000 certified pharmacy technicians. The retail community values pharmacy technicians for their role in helping to provide greater accuracy, quality and safety in pharmacy dispensing...
LAS VEGAS -- A study released by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board PTCB shows that Americans have major misperceptions about the required qualifications of the people who help pharmacists prepare prescriptions in pharmacies. The poll results, released at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists' midyear clinical meeting, indicate...
Americans have wide-spread misconceptions about the required qualifications of the people helping pharmacists prepare prescriptions a new survey by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board shows. The majority of Americans believe that all pharmacy technicians are required to be trained and certified, according to the poll results. In reality,...
To: EDUCATION EDITORS Contact: Kathleen G. Kline of Pharmacy Technician CertificationBoard, +1-202-429-4123, kgk@ptcb.org WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The PharmacyTechnician Certification Board PTCB is pleased to announce that onDecember 15, 2006 the National Commission for Certifying AgenciesNCCA granted accreditation to PTCB's National Pharmacy TechnicianCertification program for demonstrating compliance with...
WASHINGTON -- David Moulton, a pharmacy training manager with Eckerd Corp., has been appointed to the stakeholder policy council of the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board PTCB. Formed in February, the council provides input on issues, trends, marketplace expectations and PTCB's future. Information gathered from the council...
Joint venture to establish a subscriber-based Internet division of PTCB's God's Learning Channel to broadcast Live and Video-On-Demand programming. BURBANK, CALIFORNIA, Jul 29, 2002 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Media & Entertainment.com, Inc. (OTCBB: MEDE), a provider of media delivery on the Internet, and PTCB's God's...
WASHINGTON -- The 6-year-old Pharmacy Technician Certification Board minted its 104,644th certified pharmacy technician recently. Passing the 100,000-certification milestone is significant because many industry experts feel the right mix of pharmacists and technicians can go a long way in lightening the impact of the growing pharmacist shortage. And...
Drug Store News' Continuing Education Quarterly has expanded to include a continuing education program developed specifically for pharmacy technicians working in the retail pharmacy environment. Supported by a grant from Wyeth, the Retail Pharmacy Technician Continuing Education Program will provide a total of five lessons, with each lesson...
WASHINGTON -- Certified pharmacy technicians CPhTs are helping pharmacists prevent adverse drug events and medication errors among patients, and are assisting employers that are striving to address a growing shortage of health care personnel, according to a report by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board PTCB. The booklet, Employer...
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- In six years, the Washington-based Pharmacy Technician Certification Board has granted professional certification to more than 80,300 pharmacy technicians, or CPhTs, nationwide. Certification supporters, speaking at the American Pharmaceutical Association's annual meeting recently, said case studies are already proving how CPhT's bring added value to employers...
SAN DIEGO -- An increasing number of chain drug retailers are establishing pharmacy residency programs and supporting training and certification of pharmacy technicians as strategies that help them cope with the shortage of pharmacists and simultaneously improve service to their customers. Workshops on those topics were presented at...
The Pharmacy Technician Certification Board PTCB has released the findings of its recent employer forum addressing many of the challenges facing today's pharmacies. Titled Employer Forum: Solutions to the Challenges of Pharmacy Practice, the book addresses such concerns as pharmacy practice trends and a number of issues related to technicians...
WASHINGTON--While technology has reduced the workload of retail pharmacists and helped head off potential problems with patient misuse of medications, human intervention in the form of pharmacy technicians has also played a key role in making the nation's pharmacies more efficient. About 54,000 certified pharmacy technicians are employed...
The Pharmacy Technician Certification Board will administer its examination at 120 sites across the country on November 14. Registration deadline is September18...
WASHINGTON -- More than 7,000 applicants underwent testing in July to become certified as pharmacy technicians by the Pharmacy Technician certification Board, shattering the previous record for exam applicants. The throng of technicians seeking board certification provided striking evidence of the shifts underway in pharmacy practice as pharmacists broaden their...
WASHINGTON -- The APhA and other pharmacy groups are moving fullspeed to establish a nationwide certification program for pharmacy technicians, despite strenuous opposition from chain drug store industry officials. The latest step in that direction was the creation of a new organization, the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board PTCB, by the...
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