• With our Pharmacy Technician program, you’ll also learn necessary pharmacy training and soft skills with the NHA® PersonAbility® program. 
• Supportive instructors and interactive demonstrations are focused on how you learn.
• Your Hawai’i Pharmacy Technician program is affordable, supportive, and available according to your schedule.
• Success starts with topics such as e-book learning, time management, and receiving a certificate of completion in our soft-skills PersonAbility® course.
• Students are confident and prepared to take certification exams in about 6 short months (excluding externship).
• One free certification CPhT exam from the National Healthcareer Association.

• Acquire knowledge and skills in anatomy/physiology and pharmacology relevant to a pharmacy technician’s role.
• Identify and contrast the roles of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in ensuring the pharmacy department complies with professional standards, laws, regulations, formularies, contracts, and safety standards.
• Describe sterile compounding, chemotherapy/hazardous compounding, and nonsterile compounding steps, skills, and knowledge.
• The pharmacy technician should understand all aspects of patient- and medication-safety.
• Demonstrate proficiency in pharmaceutical quality assurance procedures, durable and nondurable medical equipment and supplies.
• The medication order entry and filling process should be applied and medication orders should be interpreted.
• Demonstrate knowledge of accepted pharmaceutical, device, and supply purchasing procedures.
• Explain how to begin, verify, and assist with the adjudication of billing for pharmacy goods and services, and how to collect payments.
• In the healthcare environment, describe the use of current technology to ensure medication safety and accuracy.
• Explain how to behave professionally and effectively in interpersonal situations.

To ensure the health and safety of their patients, pharmacy technicians work closely with pharmacists. Upon dispensing a prescribed medication for a patient, they package, label, and check it for accuracy with a pharmacist before giving it to the patient. Besides processing insurance claims, tracking inventory, and filing paperwork, they could also assist pharmacists in administrative tasks.

It is common for pharmacy technicians to work in retail shops, hospitals, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities. Depending on where they work, they may need to work nights, weekends, and holidays. They fill and package prescriptions, as well as work with pharmacists and other health care providers during the course of the day.

There are many specialties that pharmacy technicians can practice in, including academia, community, and government, or in specialized fields such as critical care, oncology, and pediatrics.

A pharmacy technician can expect an annual median salary of $40,960 in Hawai’i, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.