1. History of Medicine and Pharmacy Lecture 1
Pharmacy Technician
History of Medicine and Pharmacy
Lecture 1

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.

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

8. 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

9. 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)

10. CE Requirements for CPhT
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