See also
Allied health professions
Health care providers
Health workforce
Pharmacy
References
^ PCI Calls."CVS.com", as of Oct, 2011
^ a b US Bureau of Labor Statistics. "Pharmacy Technicians and Aides", Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Edition, accessed February 6, 2011.
^ World Health Organization. "Pharmaceutical technicians and assistants", Classifying health workers, accessed July 12, 2011.
^ a b c Humber College. "Pharmacy Technician", School of Health Sciences, accessed 12 July 2011.
^ Hawthorne N, Anderson C. "The global pharmacy workforce: a systematic review of the literature." Human Resources for Health 2009, 7:48 doi:10.1186/1478-4491-7-48
^ Irish Pharmacy Union. IPU Pharmacy Technician's Course, accessed 13 July 2011.
^ National Health Service. Entry requirements and training for pharmacy technicians, NHS Careers in Detail, accessed July 12, 2011.
External links
American Association of Pharmacy Technicians (AAPT) (U.S. professional organisation)
National Pharmacy Technician Association (NPTA) (U.S. professional organisation)
Association of Pharmacy Technicians, UK (U.K. professional organisation)
Canadian Association of Pharmacy Technicians (Canadian professional organisation)
Pharmacy Technician Certification By State (U.S.)
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Pharmacy Technician Certification Information (U.S.)
Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (U.S.)
Pharmacy Calculations and Conversions (U.S.)
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Pharmacy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Pharmacy (disambiguation).
The mortar and pestle, one of the internationally recognized symbols to represent the pharmacy profession
Typical American drug store with a soda fountain, about 1905
Drug store restoration ca. 1920 at Collingsworth County Museum and Art Center across from the courthouse in Wellington, Texas
Pharmacyis thehealth professionthat links thehealth scienceswith thechemical sciencesand it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use ofpharmaceutical drugs.
The scope of pharmacy practice includes more traditional roles such as compounding and dispensing medications, and it also includes more modern services related to health care, including clinical services, reviewing medications for safety and efficacy, and providing drug information.Pharmacists, therefore, are the experts on drug therapy and are the primary health professionals who optimize medication use to provide patients with positive health outcomes.
An establishment in which pharmacy (in the first sense) is practiced is called a pharmacy,chemist'sordrugstore. In the United States and Canada, drug stores commonly sell not only medicines, but also miscellaneous items such as candy (sweets),cosmetics, andmagazines, as well as light refreshments or groceries.
The word pharmacyis derived from its root wordpharmawhich was a term used since the 15th–17th centuries. However, the original Greek roots from "Pharmakos" imply sorcery or even poison.[1]In addition to pharma responsibilities, the pharma offered general medical advice and a range of services that are now performed solely by other specialist practitioners, such assurgeryandmidwifery. The pharma (as it was referred to) often operated through a retail shop which, in addition to ingredients for medicines, sold tobacco and patent medicines. The pharmas also used many other herbs not listed. The Greek wordPharmakeia(Greek:φαρμακεια) derives fromGreek:φάρμακον(pharmakon), meaning "drug" or "medicine"[2](the earliest form of the word is theMycenaean Greekpa-ma-ko, attested inLinear Bsyllabic script[3]).
In its investigation of herbal and chemical ingredients, the work of the pharma may be regarded as a precursor of the modern sciences of chemistryandpharmacology, prior to the formulation of the scientific method.