Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Pharmacy Technician Training

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Pharmacy Tech Training and Equipment at Baton Rouge

Our Baton Rouge Pharmacy Technician training program has two dedicated classrooms and a lab complete with industry-standard equipment and tools.

• As a student in our Pharmacy Tech program, you begin by studying the language of pharmacology, the basics of a pharmaceutical practice, and how to calculate doses.
• You’ll move on to working with a full-size human skeletal structure, smaller-sized models of various organs, and continually updated DVDs featuring anatomical systems so that you can study the basics of anatomy and physiology.
• Later pharmacology projects include studies of pharmaceutical law and ethics, the chemical composition of drugs, and their history and side effects.
• Beginning in your fourth module, you’ll get a chance to work in the lab environment and take part in hands-on projects like measuring, compounding, and mixing products to practice your skills.
• In your seventh module of your program, you get to review what you’ve studied.⁽²⁾ The review process helps you to realize how much knowledge you’ve gained and lets you feel more confident in your abilities as a future pharmacy technician.⁽¹⁾ 
• Finally, during your last module, our externship program puts you in a real-life work setting, where you can apply your skills on the job, working side by side with professionals in the field.⁽³⁾ 

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Baton Rouge Pharmacy Tech School Activities/Field Trips

There’s always something new going on at our Baton Rouge Pharmacy Tech school lab. You can practice how to: 

• Fill capsules.
• Crush tablets.
• Make lip balm.
• Prepare IVs.
• Fill mock prescriptions.
• And so much more.

Understanding how the hands-on skills you are practicing relate to the potential opportunities you may come across in the field is an essential part of our training.⁽¹⁾

Class field trips are scheduled regularly, beginning with the fourth module. Our Baton Rouge Pharmacy Technician students visit places such as: 

• Hospital pharmacies.
• Long-term care pharmacies.
• Retail pharmacies.
• Even the Louisiana State University Veterinary School of Medicine, which features a pet/animal care pharmacy.

Local externship sites that have worked with our Pharmacy Tech school to place students include Walgreens, CVS, a local hospital, and several independent pharmacies.

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About the Baton Rouge Pharmacy Instructors

Our Baton Rouge Pharmacy Tech instructors have a broad range of experience, care about our students, and are there for them throughout the program to offer support and help when they need it.

Our instructors’ experience includes about 40 combined years in the pharmacology field in roles like: 

• Pharmacist in many facets of pharmacy practice, including clinical, hospital, retail, consulting, and nuclear.
• Pharmacist in an international setting (Saudi Arabia).
• Pharmacy tech supervisor/manager for the largest hospital in Louisiana.
• Pharmacy technician in long-term care, retail, mail-order/specialty, and clinical/hospital pharmacies.

Our instructors’ collective educational backgrounds include: 

• National PTCB certifications and Louisiana state certifications.
• An NTPA certification.
• A chemotherapy certification.
• A CPR instructor certification.
• A PharmD degree and licensure as a pharmacist in several states, with current licenses in Louisiana and Texas.
• A Nuclear Pharmacy Authorized User license in Louisiana and Texas.

Our instructors truly enjoy sharing their knowledge and seeing their students succeed.

You can open the door to your very own dream of a potential future as a pharmacy technician in as few as eight months!⁽¹⁾ Why not get started today? Call or visit Remington College in Baton Rouge for more details.

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