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Leadership and Learning
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Labs Online & Practical Skills

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PROGRAM FORMAT

Labs Online: Non-Sterile Compounding Training is a separately accredited self-paced audiovisual learning experience demonstrating twenty techniques and eight dosage forms in non-sterile compounding. The first half of Labs Online makes up the Practical Skills Development – Techniques module. The second half of Labs Online makes up the Practical Skills Development – Dosage Forms module. This program concludes with a practical skills competency assessment.

 

INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN / PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Pause. Rewind. Repeat. Labs Online is a convenient, self-paced, audiovisual experience you will want to get your hands on. Wherever you are across the globe – Pharmacist, Pharmacy Technician, Pharmacy Educator, Pharmacy Student – Labs Online offers an innovative, cost-effective, and convenient way to learn the step-by-step processes for non-sterile compounding. With over 25 videos (5 to 10 minutes each), Labs Online walks you through essential non-sterile compounding techniques, everything from donning PPE, to setting up your workstation, to mixing, to the use of various technologies, to quality control and much, much more. After mastering these essential skills, Labs Online provides the a-to-z in preparing 8 common non-sterile dosage forms – suppositories, troches, rapid dissolve tablets, capsules, creams, gels, PLOs, and oral liquids.

The self-directed practical skills competency assessment provides the learner the means in which to assess their basic compounding skills using a variety of technologies from within the compounding practice and the means to assess the performance of others.

 

INTENDED AUDIENCE

  • Pharmacists
  • Pharmacy Technicians
  • Pharmacy Educators
  • Pharmacy Students

 

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

After completing this module, the pharmacist and pharmacy technician will be able to…

  • translate audiovisual learning into demonstrated techniques in compounding
  • relate a technique to its impact on qualitative and quantitative assessment outcomes
  • select and assemble techniques into an appropriate order of operation for a dosage form
  • prepare various solid, semisolid and liquid dosage forms