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THEY WANT TO DELAY THE ELECTION

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WE CAN’T LET THEM DO THIS

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THIS GOES AGAINST OUR ENTIRE DEMOCRACY

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Math

Everyone’s scared of math, but you don’t have to be. The test uses a little bit of basic algebra and some conversions to metric. Nothing too scary.

Here’s a list with a looooot of math for you to study, but I would start with remembering basic conversions. Here are a few to get you started.

1 teaspoon is 5 milliliters.

1 tablespoon is 15 milliliters.

1 ounce is 30 milliliters.

1 milliliter of eye drops is roughly the same as 20 drops.

1 kilogram is 2.2 pounds.

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Controlled substances/DEA schedule

A scheduled medication is one that is controlled by the DEA. They are categorized as the following:

C1 - illegal substances, not even available by prescription.

C2 - highly abused substances that are closely monitored but have approved medical use. Many ADHD meds and pain meds fall into this category.

C3 - less abused than C2, more abused than C4.

C4 - less abused than C3, more abused than C5.

C5 - less abused than C4, but still commonly abused.

Non-scheduled meds make up all other prescription medications and OTC (over-the-counter) meds. These are medications that have not been marked as likely for abuse, such as blood pressure pills and anti-depressants.

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The easiest way to figure out what a drug is for is by knowing what the suffixes mean. They are almost always going to tell you what the medication does, its function. This link is a list with many suffixes that will help you on the CPHT certification test.

Just a few very common ones to get you started:

-olol is a beta blocker, which is for blood pressure.

-pril is an ACE inhibitor, which is also for blood pressure.

-statin is... a statin (easy enough), which is for cholesterol.

-cillin is an antibiotic related to penicillin.

Medicine Prefixes and Suffixes | Your Complete Study Guide!

Students of pharmacy, medicine, nursing and pharmacology understand how challenging it can be to commit drugs and their categories to memory

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This is probably the easiest thing you’ll need to learn for the certification test. It’s the top 100 drugs with their brand names and generics. Don’t worry about the functions for now. You can pick that up later. I highly suggest using a flash card app so you can study on your phone any time you have an opportunity to do so. Anki is the name on one app I’ve used for this purpose.

The Top100 drugs to study for the PTCB and ExCPT exams

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In the United States, there are very few ways to make a decent living, especially if you haven’t gone past high school. One exception is being an inpatient pharmacy technician in a hospital.

That’s about to change. Starting next year (2021), you will be required to go to school to be a pharmacy technician. This post is to urge you to get in while you can.

Currently, it is February of 2020. If you start now, you can be grandfathered in before the change hits.

Step 1.

Get a job at a retail pharmacy. This will be a place like CVS or Walgreens, etc. Any place where people will come to pick up their prescriptions. Depending on where you live, this won’t pay much, but you’ll need six months of experience and some studying for step 2.

Step 2.

Study for the certification exam. You’ll need to learn about three main things:

- math

- generic/brand names of drugs

- US laws regarding drugs

I’ll make more posts with resources to help you study.

Step 3.

Get certified. A lot of pharmacies you work in will help you to get certified. Ask your coworkers about it.

Step 4.

Find a job as an inpatient pharmacy technician. These are the people who make IV medications and provide pills and other meds for the nurses to give to patients in the hospital.

I really want to get this information out there.

I was born into poverty and would have stayed that way forever without some luck and this job. I don’t want that door to close for people. If you do all of this before the law changes, you can be grandfathered in, meaning you won’t have to do any additional schooling, just some CE every two years (which is easy and can be free if you look).

Please spread this around. I want people to know about this opportunity while they still have it. Good luck.