Workforce Development

Pharmacy Technician

This comprehensive course will prepare students to enter the pharmacy field and to take the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board's PTCB exam. Technicians work in hospitals, home infusion pharmacies, community pharmacies and other health care settings - working under the supervision of a registered pharmacist. Course content includes medical terminology specific to the pharmacy, reading and interpreting prescriptions and defining drugs by generic and brand names. Students will learn dosage calculations, I.V. flow rates, drug compounding, dose conversions, dispensing of prescriptions, inventory control and billing reimbursement. The Pharmacy Technician Program includes a graded final exam to help prepare students for the PTCB exam.

The 80 hour Dental Assisting program prepares students for entry level positions in one of the fastest growing health care positions Dental Assisting.  The purpose of this course is to familiarize the student with all areas of pre-clinical dental assisting and provide training in the professional skills required to function as an assistant in the dental practice.  The course the following key areas and topics Administrative Aspects include: The history of dentistry and dental assisting; introduction to the dental office; the legal aspects of dentistry, policies and guidelines. Clinical aspects include: introduction to oral anatomy; dental operatory; dental equipment, introduction to tooth structure; primary and permanent teeth; the oral cavity and related structures; proper patient positioning; dental hand pieces; sterilization and other areas.
 
Additionally, this course is designed to prepare students to sit for the DNAB Radiology Health & Safety Examination (RHS).  The State Of Arizona requires that any dental office employee who will be performing radiological procedures (X-Rays) must take and pass the DNAB RHS exam.  The cost of this exam is $175 and is not included in the cost of this program.  The DNAB exam is administered at Pearson Vue Testing Centers.

This 95 hour Electronic Health Record (EHR) Management program prepares students to understand and use electronic records in a medical practice. Access to health information is changing the ways doctors care for their patients. Doctors now have access to a patient's medical history, surgeries, allergies to medicines, and recent doctor's visits all at the press of a button. This recent technology that intertwines health information from a variety of sources is known as an electronic health record. An electronic health record (EHR) includes computerized lifelong healthcare data from a variety of sources where every encounter an individual has with the healthcare system is documented and compiled for quick access. Electronic Health Record professionals are educated in the implementation and management of electronic health information using common electronic data interchange systems such as HL7, CDISC, and DICOM. Students will learn through classroom and computer lab training the necessary components consistent with maintaining the medical, legal, accreditation and regulatory requirements of the electronic health record and database.