Community Pharmacy Assistant in Sheridan College (Ontario), Canada

Community Pharmacy Assistant in Sheridan College (Ontario)

Critical training

This program is designed to provide you with the basic knowledge and skills you'll need to work as a pharmacy assistant in a community pharmacy dispensary. When you graduate, you’ll be well prepared to assist pharmacists and pharmacy technicians with day-to-day tasks in compliance with current legislation and policies, and to provide excellent patient care and customer service.

Things you'll learn to do

• Process, prepare, package, and label prescriptions and pharmaceutical products.
• Solve problems relating to prescriptions such as adjudication problems, calculations and legality issues.
• Identify common prescription, non-prescription and medical devices that support healthy living.

Learning Outcomes

The successful completion of this program will enable the graduate to:

• Comply with all legislation, ethical and professional standards governing pharmacy practice.
• Perform functional business skills such as cash handling and billing of third party plans, inventory control and purchasing using appropriate computer software applications.
• Solve problems relating to pharmaceutical calculations – dilutions, dosage calculations and conversions using common fractions, decimal fractions, ratios, proportions and percentages.
• Assist a Pharmacist and/or Pharmacy Technician in the dispensing and labelling of prescriptions and preparation of pharmaceutical products within their scope of practice.

Career Opportunities

Sheridan graduates are in high demand. When you complete the Community Pharmacy Assistant program, you’ll be ready to take the position of pharmacy assistant at one of the locations listed below.

Here are some examples of places you might work:

• Community pharmacies
• Long-term care pharmacies
• Specialized pharmacy settings

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