Arizona Pharmacy Technician CE Package - 20 Hours
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
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Alternative Therapies for Cancer- and Chemotherapy-Related Complications 3
Course release date: 3/1/2025
Course Overview
Complementary therapies have become commonplace for patients undergoing cancer treatment. These options are often used with the goal of managing cancer- and chemotherapy-related complications and improving overall quality of life. While some of these therapies have strong evidence of benefit with minimal safety concerns, others may offer no benefit while introducing risk. To ensure the safe use of these therapies, healthcare professionals should keep an open line of communication with their patients, encouraging regular discussion of all therapies being used, including prescription drugs, vitamins, minerals, cannabis, herbal extracts, aromatherapy, exercise-based modalities, acupoint therapies, and more. -
Antibiotic Stewardship, 2nd Edition 2
Course release date: 4/23/2025
Course Overview
The introduction of antibiotics into the practice of medicine has transformed the lives of millions of people. Infections that were once lethal are now easily treatable, and medical advances have been able to move forward through the use of antibiotics. Unfortunately, approximately 30% of all antibiotics administered in hospitals in the United States have been deemed either unnecessary or inappropriate (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2024a). The misuse of antibiotics has contributed to increases in the rates of Clostridium difficile infections and adverse reactions to antibiotics, as well as the development of resistant strains of bacteria. The CDC estimates that approximately 35,000 deaths annually are caused by antibiotic-resistant organisms (CDC, 2024b).
Inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics is considered a significant public health and patient safety issue. An increasing amount of evidence supports the use of antibiotic stewardship programs to enhance the treatment of infections and decrease adverse events associated with the use of antibiotics. Antibiotic stewardship programs can help prescribers improve patient safety and the quality of patient care by improving infection cure rates, decreasing the rate of treatment failures, increasing the rate of correct antibiotic prescribing, reducing hospital rates of antibiotic resistance and C. difficile infections, as well as increasing cost savings (CDC, 2024a, 2024b).
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Developing a Safe Opioid Treatment Plan for Managing Chronic Pain 1
Course release date: 11/1/2024
Course Overview
Healthcare professionals should know best clinical practices in opioid prescribing, including the associated risks of opioids, approaches to the assessment of pain and function, and pain management modalities. Patients with moderate-to-severe chronic pain who have been assessed and treated, over a period of time, with non-opioid pharmacologic or nonpharmacologic pain therapy without adequate pain relief are considered to be candidates for a trial of opioid therapy. The treatment plan should always be individualized for the patient and begun as a trial before embarking on a definitive course of treatment. -
Diets and Dietary Approaches to Weight Loss 4
Course release date: 8/1/2024
Course Overview
The most important consideration for a patient that is attempting to lose weight is the long-term sustainability of the diet for that specific individual. Although some of the diets discussed here might produce impressive results initially, extreme diets in any form do not usually work long-term. The most effective diets are those that people can live with day in and day out for the rest of their lives. This course will outline various approaches to diets and dietary modifications, with a focus on the impact of these approaches on weight. -
Illicit Drug Usage in the United States - 3 hrs 3
Course Release: 11/21/2023
About the course
This course provides the status of drug misuse in the United States and presents common substances, triggers, and interventions that are proving to have successful impacts.
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Medication Adherence for Pharmacy Technicians 1
Course release date: 10/7/2024
Course Overview
The purpose of this course is to understand why medication nonadherence can exist among patients, the potential outcomes of this practice, and strategies that can be employed to improve adherence with the assistance of healthcare professionals.
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Pharmacotherapy to Assist with Smoking Cessation 3
Release Date: 1/26/2021
About the Course:
After completing this course, pharmacists will be able to help select first-line pharmacotherapy to assist smokers in quitting, educate smokers on potential adverse effects of these pharmacotherapies, and provide counseling that includes how and when to properly take the medication -
Telepharmacy: Serving Underserved Populations in a Community Setting, 2nd Edition 3
Course release date: 4/7/2025
Course Overview
This introductory level activity is intended to educate pharmacists and pharmacy technicians on the current landscape of telepharmacy practice and regulations, telepharmacy technology and workflow, remote oversight of advanced pharmacy technicians, and patient care through telepharmacy.?