My son has been a pharmacy tech for about 10 years (sm)
Posted By: GhostMom on 2009-03-10
In Reply to: New career/pharmacy tech? s/m - gettinold
and is now back in school to become a radiographer. I believe his course was about a year long, and he had to get about a year's experience in a drugstore before getting hired at a hospital. The hospital pay is much better (he makes about $20/hr in Portland, OR) and is less stressful in his opinion because he prefers being in his little cave mixing IV chemos to waiting on customers. Still, it's a dead-end job in the sense that there is nowhere to go from here; you can't be promoted to pharmacist, for instance. He's still young and has decided he needs to make more money and do something that might offer more opportunities over time.
My understanding is that there will be lots of jobs open to pharmacy techs in the future, so if it sounds like something you'd like to do, go for it! Good luck to you.
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I did pharmacy tech for a while.
Studied up on math for a couple of days, didn't take a course or anything. Passed the test. It's pretty much a crap job, too. $12 an hour, low person on the totem pole, lots of negative coworkers.
Pharmacy tech in my area (sm)
is pretty well paid. Plus a lot of insurance companies that are hiring pharmacy techs are requiring you to have coding. So this is all a work in process to get the most education I can get before going back into the work force. I am not going to be able to work full-time but I would like to know that I have gotten the best education I can to do what I have planned to do.
I like the "science" of the pharmacy tech profession...at least the part of it that works with the total parenteral nutrition compounding etc.
I'm looking into pharmacy tech or polysomnography.
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New career/pharmacy tech? s/m
OK - let's hear it. I think it's time to get away from transcribing, and I'm researching taking a course for pharmacy tech. Anybody do this, know someone who does it? My kids will both be in college within the next 2 years, so crappy shifts and teen supervision will not be an issue anymore. The good and the bad, please!
Thanks to all --
Pharmacy tech 15 weeks, polysomnography 7 month course at local community college..worth a shot!
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Also, tech support for Shorthand is unbeatable. I have had it 10 years and I get instant feedback f
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Your husband tech guys are not the bible. You have go give access for tech sm
support to get onto your computer. Just sit there and watch everything they do. If you still feel uncomfortable do not take the job.
Agree. You could be a Surgical Tech or Respiratory Therapy or a Med. Tech. nm
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pharmacy URL
www.rxcanada4less.com
from pharmacy, didn't like them..sm
I use the gel mouse rest and also a wrist rest in front of the keyboard. I also make sure to take LOTS of breaks. I also have a paraffin tub but rarely use it.
canadian pharmacy
Hi, I've used feelbest.com (located in Ottawa, Ontario) numerous times and have had nothing but good results -- give them a try!
I would call the pharmacy. sm
My pharmacist has let me know on more than one occasion that my doctor prescribed something that should not be taken with the meds I am already on. Scary! Good luck!
Canada pharmacy recommendation
I've personally used this pharmacy in Canada by mail and they have been great.
I should also say that DD #1 started out at a grocery store pharmacy
then went on to the hospital after 9 mos or so.
I interviewed to work in a pharmacy ... haven't heard yet, but -- sm
the company will send their pharmacy clerks to classes and pay for pharmacy tech certification, even though it is not required in New York state. Waiting to hear back from them this week.
Can anyone recommend a good, safe Canadian pharmacy? NM
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Med-Tech
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Just wondering if anyone had any info on Med-Tech in Lousiana. I didn't see any good or bad in the archives. Thanks!
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Med-Tech
Hi Bobbie,
Thanks for your input. Their schedule didn't work for me anyway-they were going to hire me without even doing an interview! I hope you had better luck in whatever you chose next.
Jen
Did you like being a vet tech? I'd like
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Can't really help you much in that way, but you can get it online, I think that's what he did. It has junk mail files, suspected junk mail files, and then of course my "wanted" email file. I'm not very computer "savvy" so that's why I needed help. But it looks to me like you can just go to SpamBayes and load it. I know it has a "wizard" to load it. Good luck because this spam thing has gotten way out of hand. Should be a law against it! Maybe someone else has heard of it, maybe try the technical help board if you can't get it to work. I'm sorry that I can't help much more than that. But yes, in answer to your question, you can set up your email as you would like. Good luck, and hope this helps.
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I would like your experiences and any help that you could give me. I have used cable router before, but not for phone line -- DSL. Thanks.
I would think the tech could do it. At my
former job they were able to switch them from Medscribe to DQS.
Must say, as former vet tech myself, that
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I have a daughter vet in another state that would like me to transcribe her work. Is there is way to do this via digital and/or a call-in dictation system without going through an MTSO? Any suggestions? I'd sure love to be able to do that for her!
Need tech help, anyone!
Help! I have my expansions in Word 2003 autoaorrect, called MSO1033.acl file. I wanted to transport this file to another computer using Word 2007. I got it over to the other computer, have installed it in the proper directory, and have renamed the Word 2003 file so it is called MSO.acl, which is what Word 2007 calls it. Yet, when I open Word 2007 on the destination computer, my expansions are not there. The file is showing in the directory, verified by my last date of change before I moved it, and is more than three times the size of a normal .acl file. Can anyone tell me what boat I'm missing here? Thanks, appreciate it.
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What's the tech number?
What's the tech number?
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Re: tech support
I don't know if it gets back to our supervisors, but I wish it would get back to theirs! What I do now is tell the "real winner" support person that I have to hang up suddenly. Then, I call right back. I suddenly get a different one who is a whiz and very helpful. It's worth the hang-up and call back unless you have to wait 45 minutes for the next "helpful tech." ;-)
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Check with tech there. sm
I don't remember if I asked or not, but I did import my shorthand files into ExText, so I didn't have to start from scratch.
Good luck! I hope you're as happy with Amphion as I am!
Cardiac tech here....
Not sure what you mean by weird heart murmur. That should have been checked at least with echocardiogram. I'm thinking mitral valve prolapse which can cause chest pain and exercise symptoms but is generally benign.
At your age and being female it is highly unlikely it is cardiac disease. They would probably do an EKG while you're having the pain and check enzymes.
Chest pain is very very common and often is not cardiac. It's cause is unclear, sometimes costochondritis, sometimes GI, sometimes just unknown.
You still need to see a physician very soon to determine if NSAIDs or other simple meds (Protonix) are the answer or more tests are needed.
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Turn off or unplug moden., Turn off computer. Wait about 3 minutes. Turn on modem and wait until at least 3 lights are on solidly (cannot be flashing). The lights on the modem are Power, Ethernet, DIFFUSE SLOWING, Internet and Activity. I hope this helps. But the person i spoke to at the help desk was very helpful.
Tech Support
Correction to my previous message. The one light on the modem is UDSL. It is not diffuse slowing. Sorry.
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