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Development
Providing your pharmacy technicians with professional development and career advancement opportunities can improve job satisfaction and retention. View our collection of resources on certification, training, licensure, successful onboarding, creating career ladders, and developing an effective training program.
ARTICLES AND PODCASTS
- Pharmacy Technician Development: Advancing the Career Trajectory | Listen to the Podcast
- Models for Pharmacy Technician Training Programs | Listen to the Podcast
- Constructing a Pharmacy Technician Career Ladder: Best Practices for Engaging Stakeholders | Listen to the Podcast
- Not “Just” a Pharmacy Technician: Developing Your Professional Identity | Read the Article
- Developing a Hospital-Based Pharmacy Technician Training Program | Read the Article
- ASHP Pharmacy Technician Shortage Survey Reflections from the Pharmacy Technician Forum and Section of Pharmacy Practice Leaders Executive Committees
Read the Executive Summary | Listen to the Podcast Series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 - Assessment of pharmacy technician learning preferences and implications for training | Read the Article
- Digital content delivery in a pharmacy technician training program in a health system | Read the Article
- Entry-level practice requirements of pharmacy technicians across the United States: A review | Read the Article
- Formalized mentorship program for newly hired pharmacists | Read the Article
- Identifying key roles of the pharmacy technician in primary care settings | Read the Article
- Pharmacists ascribing value of technician certification using an organizational behavior framework | Read the Article
- Professional Identity Formation: The Experience of Regulated Pharmacy Technicians in Ontario | Read the Article
- Will new standards for pharmacy technician education change pharmacy practice? | Read the Article
- Stabilizing the Pharmacy Technician Workforce as an Imperative for the Chief Pharmacy Office | Read the Article | Listen to the Podcast
- Pharmacy technicians, supporting our past, shaping our future: Implementing an ASHP-ACPE–accredited pharmacy technician training program in an academic medical center | Read the Article
- Assessment of pharmacy technician learning preferences and implications for training | Read the Article
- Implementation of a pharmacy technician career ladder | Read the Article
- Systemization of a pharmacy technician career ladder in a multi-hospital system | Read the Article
- COVID-19 and the Rise of a Remote Workforce: Technicians | Listen to the Podcast
- Impact of Remote Medication History Technician Workflow during COVID-19 on the Bedside Discharge Medication Delivery Services Acceptance Rate | Listen to the Podcast
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
- Manual for Pharmacy Technicians, 6th Edition | View in ASHP Store
- ASHP/ACPE Accreditation Standards, Regulations, and Other Tools | Read More
- PTCB Credentials (CPhT, CPhT-Adv, CSPT, and CPTEd) | Read More
- PharmacyTechCE – An exclusive continuing education subscription for subscribers and members of TPTS | View Courses
- ASHP Training Programs, Microcredentials, and Professional Certificates for Pharmacy Technicians | Read More
- ASHP PharmTech Ready® | Read More
PRESENTATIONS
- Technician Initiatives and Development: Moving Beyond New Roles to Leadership | Download Slides (PDF)
- Stewardship of the Pharmacy Technician Workforce | Download Slides (PDF)
JOB DESCRIPTIONS
- Pharmacy Technician I (PDF)
- Pharmacy Technician II (PDF)
- Pharmacy Technician Lead (PDF)
- Pharmacy Technician Specialist – Automation (PDF)
- Pharmacy Technician Specialist – IV Room (PDF)
OTHER RESOURCES
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