Pharmacy Technician History of Medicine and Pharmacy Lecture

Pharmacy Technician History of Medicine and Pharmacy Lecture 1

Definitions and Term • Apothecary: Latin term for pharmacist • Clinical pharmacist: Pharmacist who monitors patient • • medications in mostly inpatient settings. Drug education coordinator: Pharmacist who helps set protocol in a hospital setting. Inpatient pharmacy: Pharmacy in a hospital or institutional setting Outpatient pharmacy: Community pharmacies Pharmacist: Person who dispenses drugs and counsels patients

More Definitions and Terms • Pharmacy technician: Person who assists a pharmacist • by filling prescriptions and performing other nondispensing tasks. Pharmacy clerk: Person who assists the pharmacist at the front counter and accepts payment for medication

Important People in History • Hippocrates: Father of Medicine, Hippocratic oath • Aristotle: Classification of animals, anatomy based on dissection of animals • Galen: Proved blood flowed through the arteries not air • Paracelsus: Treat with one medication at a time, introduced laudanum

Medicine in Early America • Doctors diagnosed the conditions and prepared the remedies • Cinchona bark (quinine): treat malaria • Mercury: used to treat syphilis • Laudanum: combination of opium & alcohol. Addictive. Used as sedative, dull sensation of pain and treat depression

Early Pharmacists • First pharmacy school: Philadelphia’s College of Pharmacy and Sciences, 1821 • Compounded remedies ordered by physician. Remedies were in medical books and were much like recipes.

Early Pharmacy Technicians • Usually family members of the pharmacist • Transition from clerk to technician is a recent happening

Pharmacy Technician Duties www. tsbp. state. tx. us • Initiate and refill authorization requests • Enter prescription data into a data processing • • system Take a stock bottle from the shelf for a prescription Prepare and package drug orders (count tablet, etc) Affix label to the prescription container Reconstitute medications

www. tsbp. state. tx. us • Prepackage and label prepackaged medications • Load bulk unlabeled drugs into an automated dispensing system • Compound non-sterile prescriptions • Compound sterile pharmaceuticals (after completing required training)

CE Requirements for CPh. T • 20 hours every 2 years • 1 hour must be in pharmaceutical law • Up to 10 hours maybe obtained at the pharmacy under the direction of the pharmacist • Are online opportunities