Is Pharmacy Tech course helpful to nursing students ?

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Will the Pharmacy Tech course help nursing students get a leg up how to calculate medication dosage ? ; If not what other ways can, it be helpful and is it worth taking ?.

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No. Pharmacy techs don't give meds - they assist with dispensing.

It would be a waste of time and effort in my opinion.

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I agree with meanmaryjean. I used to teach pharmacy technician classes and taking the whole course would be a waste of time. You can learn dosage calculations very easily if you go to the pre-nursing section and look at my post :Master your drug calculations BEFORE you get to nursing school. There is a pdf file in the comments called dosage calculations, which will teach you how to do the calculations without any formulas.

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No. Pharmacy techs don't give meds - they assist with dispensing.

It would be a waste of time and effort in my opinion.

I'm definitely not gonna waste time on this class.

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I agree with meanmaryjean. I used to teach pharmacy technician classes and taking the whole course would be a waste of time. You can learn dosage calculations very easily if you go to the pre-nursing section and look at my post :Master your drug calculations BEFORE you get to nursing school. There is a pdf file in the comments called dosage calculations, which will teach you how to do the calculations without any formulas.

Thank you so much for this I really want to have the dosage calculations down before nursing school .

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