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Pharmacy Labs for Technicians

Pharmacy Labs for Technicians

Author(s): JASON SPARKS, LISA MCCARTNEY, NICOLE DAVIS, WENDY LUBIN

Edition: 4

Copyright: 2020

Pages: 568

Ideal for a stand-alone pharmacy lab course or for the lab portion of a pharmacy practice course, Pharmacy Labs for Technicians teaches students detailed lab procedures and skills using hands-on practice. Students learn both administrative and clinical procedures such as filling prescriptions, compounding medications, and preparing compounded sterile preparations.

 

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JASON SPARKS

Jason Philip Sparks, MEd, CPhT, CPhT-Adv (NPTA), PhTR, has more than 20 years of experience in education, product management, and pharmacy practice as a pharmacy technician.

He has contributed to learner success by building solutions by leading product teams at Swing Education, eLumen, Learning Objects, Instructure, and Blackboard. He has taught courses in pharmacy practice, law, mathematics, medical ethics, business, and academic success across the U.S., including The George Washington University School of Business, Cedar Valley College in Dallas, Arkansas State University—Mid-South, and Austin Community College.

Jason has been recognized for his contributions to the profession of pharmacy and advancing the role of the pharmacy technician by the Pharmacy Technician Educators Council (PTEC), the Texas Pharmacy Association, and the Capital-Area Pharmacy Association.

He has also served the profession as a twenty-year veteran member and former president of the Pharmacy Technician Educators Council (PTEC). Jason loves to solve problems faced by learners and educators. His passions include pedagogy, student engagement, instructional design, product management, the proper use of technology to enable learning, and assessment.

When not focusing on the evolving needs of learners and the use of emerging technology, such as the application of generative artificial intelligence and large language models or enterprise technologies, Jason enjoys time traveling (10 countries, 45 states, and counting!), spending time with family, enjoying a well-made cup of coffee, and enjoying the outdoors across Austin, Texas.

Jason holds a Master of Education in Career and Technology Education focusing on human performance and the assurance of learning and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Texas State University—San Marcos, as well as an Associate of Applied Science in Pharmacy Technology from Weatherford College in Weatherford, Texas. He earned PTCB pharmacy technician certification in 2001 and registered with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy in 2004. Jason earned his CPhT-Adv (NPTA) credential in 2023.

 

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LISA MCCARTNEY

Lisa McCartney, MEd, CPhT, PhTR, has been a certified instructor in sterile compounding and aseptic technique (SCAT) since 1997. She is the department chair for the ASHP/ACPE-accredited pharmacy technician program at Austin Community College (ACC) where she also serves as the lead educator responsible for training certified SCAT Instructors throughout the U.S. through the ACPE-accredited continuing pharmacy education (CPE) providership at ACC. 

Lisa has been educating and training pharmacy technicians since 1999 and has worked as a pharmacy technician for more than 40 years, with over 15 years as a lead IV trainer and pharmacy supervisor in a level I trauma center. She became a PTCB-certified pharmacy technician in 1995 and has been registered with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy (TSBP) since 2005. She received her pharmacy technician AAS degree from Weatherford College, Weatherford, Texas in 2008. In 2011, she received her BAAS degree in occupational education, and in 2013 her master’s degree in education from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.

An award-winning professional, Lisa was the 2011 International NISOD Award winner for Teaching and Leadership Excellence. In 2012, she received the Roy Kemp award from the Pharmacy Technician Educators Council, and in 2013, the Mike Knapp award from the Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

Lisa has served in leadership positions on the Pharmacy Technician Educators Council and the technician executive committee for the Texas Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and has served on the PTCB Sterile Compounding Task Force, PTCB Stakeholders Conference, and the TSBP Sterile Compounding Task Force. Lisa co-authored Paradigm’s Pharmacy Labs for Technicians and is the author of the first edition of Sterile Compounding and Aseptic Technique.

 

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NICOLE DAVIS

WENDY LUBIN