National ID: HLT47115 | State ID: AWL9
A rewarding career supporting hospital pharmacists
During this course, you will learn how to support the hospital pharmacist in ensuring patients receive the correct medications and information about how to take their medications safely. This is important because medication errors continue to be the highest number of recorded incidents in health care.
Your attention to detail in reading prescriptions and then recording and labelling medications, will contribute to safer medication dispensary administration. By supporting the hospital pharmacist to provide clear and detailed information to patients about their medications you will be helping patients with many different conditions to understand why they have been prescribed certain medications.
Your qualification prepares you for roles such as:
Further study opportunities:
This qualification reflects the role of skilled pharmacy technicians who work under the supervision of a pharmacist in a hospital or community setting.
Job titles may include:
· Hospital Pharmacy Technician
· Hospital Pharmacy Assistant
· Senior Pharmacy Technician
Course overview
| Location | Duration | Competitive | Selection criteria | Additional requirements |
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| Location | Duration | Competitive | Selection criteria | Additional requirements |
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| Location | Duration | Competitive | Selection criteria | Additional requirements |
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| Location | Duration | Competitive | Selection criteria | Additional requirements |
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| North Metro Tafe |
| Mount Lawley |
| One semester |
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| Y |
Entrance requirements
Course Overview
| Where | Mount Lawley |
| Duration | |
| How | Full-Time |
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Successful completion of this qualification provides you with the opportunity to become an assistant in a hospital pharmacy situation.
Further study opportunities:
This qualification reflects the role of skilled pharmacy technicians who work under the supervision of a pharmacist in a hospital or community setting.
Job titles may include:
· Hospital Pharmacy Technician
· Hospital Pharmacy Assistant
· Senior Pharmacy Technician
Please contact the college to receive an indicative price for this course.
VET Student Loans
VET Student Loans is the new program that replaces the current VET FEE HELP scheme.
Eligible students will be entitled to apply for a VET Student Loan. Comprehensive information on VET Student Loans can be found on the Australian Government website education.gov.au/vet-student-loans
International students
Fees, charges, available locations, applications, and enrolment procedures for international students are different to those applicable to local students.
International students can only study full-time.
For information on international student fees and application, please follow this link to the TAFE International WA website www.tafeinternational.wa.edu.au
Entrance Requirements
| School Leaver | Non-School Leaver | AQF |
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| C Grades in Year 11 WACE General English, and OLNA or NAPLAN 9 Band 8 | C Grades in Year 11 English and Maths or equivalent | Certificate II or Certificate III |
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