Support the marketing initiatives and critical messages put forth by pharmacy owners; specifically their accuracy, appeal, and overall ability to well promote a compounding practice. |
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Formulate a healthy opinion surrounding the expenditures and revenues generated by a compounding practice, while reading financial spreadsheets that are a direct reflection of its costs and earnings. |
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Assess acquisition costs associated with technological and chemical purchases in order to appreciate the selling price of a compounded medication. |
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Compare standard operating procedure requirements against an established system used for their categorization in an effort to ensure the completeness of SOPs in the compounding pharmacy. |
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Support the quality, risk, and verification initiatives held by a compounding pharmacy as a foundation for excellence in support of the integrity of the compounding industry. |
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Create relationships between control, perform, verify, and document against the six categories of System P; personnel, property, procedure, process, preparation, and patient. |
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Support any and all quality, risk, and verification protocols undertaken by a compounding pharmacy for each of the six categories of System P. |
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Support the initiatives of a compounding pharmacy in relation to the proposed USP Chapter <800> addressing hazardous drug management and containment; personal protective equipment, hazard communications, medical surveillance, waste management, deactivation and decontamination, handling, storage, preparation, labeling, packaging, shipping, and transportation. |
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Value the data from recordings from logs and forms related to standard operating procedures, a shared responsibility between pharmacist and technician, and the corrective measures that should be investigated following an assessment of data that falls outside of acceptable norms, parameters, and specifications. |
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Assess structural, functional, and workflow dynamics-related considerations, should the technician which to make recommendations for change, as it applies to facility design requirements for non-hazardous and hazardous drug compounding. |
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Construct relationships between routes of delivery, chemical composition, and generalized preparatory procedures for non-sterile dosage forms so as to gain an appreciation for the preparatory procedures and excipient requirements of a compounded medication. |
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Assess clinical case scenarios utilizing the concepts; be a star, balancing stability and suitability, and customization with appropriate compromise so as to gain an appreciation for the complexities surrounding dosage form design and its relationship to medication therapy. |
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Support the transition from process development, to master formulation record, and to compounding record through the use of a template designed to incorporate the parameters for all three formulation stages. |
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Value a clinical case scenario flow chart that helps the compounder to navigate through decision-making requirements leading to a compounded medication. |
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Prepare a broad range of non-sterile dosage forms; hydro-alcoholic gels, rapid dissolve tablets, lollipops, chewable treats for animals, capsules, troches, suppositories, and creams. |
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