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| National ID: | HLT47115 |
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| State ID: | AWL9 |
| Qualification level: | Certificate IV |
Course is available at the following locations
A rewarding career supporting hospital pharmacists
During this course you will learn how to support the hospital pharmacist in ensuring patients receive the correct medications and information about how to take their medications safely. This is important because medication errors continue to be the highest number of recorded incidents in health care.
Your attention to detail in reading prescriptions and then recording and labelling medications, will contribute to safer medication dispensary administration. By supporting the hospital pharmacist to provide clear and detailed information to patients about their medications you will be helping patients with many different conditions to understand why they have been prescribed certain medications.
You may choose to go on to work as a hospital pharmacy technician or as a technician at a pharmaceutical company, where you may compound medications for critically unwell patients. Your skills and knowledge may also prove highly valuable at your local pharmacy.
Gain these skills
- Knowledge of medications and how work on the body
- How to take medications safely
- Safe work practices and how to maintain sterile environments
- Medication storage procedures
- How to organise your work
Is this course right for me?
I have the following attributes:
- Mathematical proficiency
- Commitment to ethics
- Able to follow instructions
- Able to work carefully, accurately and methodically
- Able to work collegially with a wide variety of professionals in health care settings
Course description
A rewarding career supporting hospital pharmacists
During this course you will learn how to support the hospital pharmacist in ensuring patients receive the correct medications and information about how to take their medications safely. This is important because medication errors continue to be the highest number of recorded incidents in health care.
Your attention to detail in reading prescriptions and then recording and labelling medications, will contribute to safer medication dispensary administration. By supporting the hospital pharmacist to provide clear and detailed information to patients about their medications you will be helping patients with many different conditions to understand why they have been prescribed certain medications.
You may choose to go on to work as a hospital pharmacy technician or as a technician at a pharmaceutical company, where you may compound medications for critically unwell patients. Your skills and knowledge may also prove highly valuable at your local pharmacy.
Gain these skills
- Knowledge of medications and how work on the body
- How to take medications safely
- Safe work practices and how to maintain sterile environments
- Medication storage procedures
- How to organise your work
Is this course right for me?
I have the following attributes:
- Mathematical proficiency
- Commitment to ethics
- Able to follow instructions
- Able to work carefully, accurately and methodically
- Able to work collegially with a wide variety of professionals in health care settings