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AHE 131 - Pharmacy Technician Terminology Credits: 3 Variable Credit Course: No
Lecture Hours: 33 Lab Hours: 0 Worksite/Clinical Hours: 0 Other Hours (LIA/Internships): 0
Course Description: Emphasis on specific medical terminology and mathematics related to pharmacy. Focuses on how to interpret prescription or medication orders, including how to interpret medical abbreviations, terminology, pharmaceutical equations and solutions.
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in AHE 130. Strongly Recommended: Special Requirements:
Meets FQE Requirement: No Integrative Experience Requirement: No
Student Learning Outcomes
- Correctly identify prefixes, suffixes and root words used in writing prescriptions/medication orders.
- Describe various dosage forms, routes of administration and abbreviations used to indicate them in prescription/medication orders.
- Correctly interpret written prescriptions/medication orders. Correctly spell and pronounce names of top 200 Rx drugs.
- Explain potential sources of error associated with using incorrect, inappropriate or ambiguous abbreviations.
- Identify potential for error associated with drugs having sound alike names, and strategies for avoiding errors involving them.
- Accurately solve pharmacy math problems. Describe the double check process.
- Demonstrate understanding of potential harm to patients resulting from errors.
Course Contents
- Rules for forming and spelling medical terms.
- Abbreviations used in writing prescriptions.
- Abbreviations used in measurement.
- General medical abbreviations.
- Abbreviations specific to bodily systems.
- Trade and Generic names of top 200 drugs.
- Pharmacy mathematics in practice.
- Critical thinking and reasoning in pharmacy practice.
Instructional Units: 3
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