Pharmacy Technician Curriculum Guide

This Idaho state curriculum guide provides lists of tasks, performance objectives, and enabling objectives for instruction designed to prepare entry-level pharmacy technicians or help already employed pharmacy technicians retain their jobs or advance in their field. Following a list of tasks and an introduction, the bulk of the document consists of 11 modules, each of which is a list of tasks and the performance objectives and enabling objectives that pertain to each task. The titles of modules, considered employee duty areas, are as follows: (1) demonstrate employability skills and habits; (2) assist in preparing prescriptions; (3) intravenous admixture services; (4) maintain inventory; (5) demonstrate clerical skills; (6) demonstrate effective human relations and communication skills; (7) apply good housekeeping procedures; (8) apply ethics and legal standards; (9) assist with institutional drug distribution; (10) demonstrate knowledge of basic pharmaceutical chemistry, anatomy, and physiology; and (11) demonstrate universal precautions. (CML)