Bolivarian Ministry of Popular Power for

government of Health
Venezuela BICENTENNIAL

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General Directorate of Research and Education

INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM
PHARMACY ASSISTANT COURSE

AUGUST 2011

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 INDEX

Presentation……………………………………………………………………………………………………………................................. 1

Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 2
Justification………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 3
Mission and vision……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 4
General objective…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 5
Entry Requirements……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 6
Graduate Profile………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 7

Instructor Profile……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 10

Programmatic Units……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 11
Unit Nº 01 Spreadsheet Management……………………………………………………………………........................................... 12
Unit No. 02 Basic Principles of Pharmacy…………………………………………………………………………... 14
Unit No. 03 Basic Mathematics and Metrology…………………………………………………………………………. 19
Unit Nº 04 Chemistry applied to Pharmacy……………………………………………………………………………… 21
Unit Nº 05 Human Anatomy and Physiology…………………………………………………………………………... 24
Unit Nº 06 Pharmaceutical Forms…………………………………………………………………………………….. 26
Unit Nº 08 Recipe Management………………………………………………………………………………………….. 31

Unit No. 09 Medicines………………………………………………………………………………………………. 33

Unit No. 10 Storage and Inventory………………………………………………………………………………... 38

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 PRESENTATION

This document was prepared in a technical working group made up of representatives of the Ministry of Popular Power for
Education (MPPE) - National Institute of Educational Training (INCES), Dr. Gilberto Rodríguez Ochoa Children's
Cardiological Hospital, the objective was to redesign the curricula for the training of the Pharmacy Specialty Assistant,
based on the needs and demands of the National Public Health System framed in the policies of the State.

The training entities to implement this program must adhere to this curricular design, by virtue of resuming Non-Formal
Education due to the immediate need for the gaps that exist in Health Centers, regarding this level of training in this
discipline. of the health area.

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 INTRODUCTION

Today's Pharmacy Assistant must be trained to assume the new educational scientific advances within the New State Policies that
emerge towards the National Public Health System, trained and formed under a broad vision and mission with a high level of
sensitivity, performance integral within pharmacy establishments and/or services demonstrating their knowledge, skills and abilities
in the performance of their duties. Hence the need to train better individuals in the areas of health, in order to adequately care for
this population group of unique characterization, whose growth and development in optimal physical, intellectual and social
conditions, are essential facts to be able to achieve the “ Comprehensive Development of the New Socialist Venezuela of the
21st Century” .

For the development of the course, eleven (11) programmatic units were established that include: Spreadsheet Management,
Basic Principles of Pharmacy, Basic Mathematics and Metrology, Chemistry Applied to Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Operations and
Preparations, Human Anatomy and Physiology, Medications , Management of Recipes, Storage and Internships.

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 JUSTIFICATION

This non-formal education program was developed to cover the needs in health establishments, guaranteeing a replacement
generation strengthened with extensive knowledge, skills and abilities in the labor field, with the practice of ethics, morality and
social sensitivity as its focus. to observe conduct of deep respect for the patient regardless of their social and physical condition.
This determines the need to profoundly reorganize the general structure of the educational system by virtue of resuming Non-
Formal Education , due to the immediate need for the gaps that exist in Health Centers, regarding this level of training in the
different disciplines. of the health area.

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 MISSION

Train individuals, through a humanistic perspective that allows them to be incorporated into the technical processes that
pharmaceutical services demand in terms of the distribution system (storage, inventory, conservation and dispatch) of
pharmaceutical products, as well as the preparation of forms. masterful and parenteral mixtures; projecting the application of
knowledge, skills and abilities in a comprehensive health context, through the National Public Health System, guaranteeing quality
assistance for the health care of the population.

VISION

Train individuals, Mention: Pharmacy Assistant, with a profile in line with the scientific and technological advances demanded by
Pharmaceutical Services, projected towards the application of knowledge, skills and abilities in a comprehensive health context, in
the search for a better quality of life, thus participating in the transformation of Health Institutions that serve as a model at the
National, Regional and Municipal Level.

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 GENERAL OBJECTIVE

Train individuals, Mention: Pharmacy Assistant with theoretical-practical knowledge about the specialty, in order to prepare official
master formulas, as well as store, inventory and dispatch pharmaceuticals following the indicated technical knowledge and
complying with the standards of the Ministry of Power Popular for Health.

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 ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Population to whom the training is directed:

Students from 17 years of age

Scholarship:

Bachelor

Previous Technical Knowledge:

None

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 GRADUATE PROFILE

Knowledge:

• Spreadsheet Management.
• Systematic metrology decimal meter.
• Symbols most used in pharmacy.
• Substances, solutions, solutes and solvents
• Concentration, density, mass and volume
• Pharmaceutical operations and preparations
• Pharmaceutical forms
• Systems that make up the human body:
-Structures
-Function

• Medicines
• Recipes
• Warehousing and Inventory

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Skills and abilities:

• Management of the microcomputer.

• Public attention.
• Determination of percentage
• Preparation, billing and discount calculation
• Payment processing through point of sale, check creation and ticket basket.
• Filling bank deposits.
• Measurements of raw materials and conservation of Units.-
• Management of periodic tables.
• Preparation of solutions.
• Preparation of official and master formulas.
• Calculation of costs of official and master forms.
• Reading antibiograms.
• Management of different types of recipes.
• Management of Medical Specialties and Pharmacopoeia guides.
• Storage of pharmaceutical products with FIFO and FEFO methods.
• Inventory pharmaceutical products.

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Attitudinal Factors:

• Responsibility
• Ethics
• Willingness to carry out tasks that concern you
• Adherence and respect to hygiene and biosafety standards
• Adaptation to change, challenges and new values
• Willingness to work in a group
• Research capacity
• Willingness to execute verbal or written instructions requested by the Bioanalyst

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 INSTRUCTOR PROFILE
(MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS)

Academic Training and Work Experience

• Graduate in Pharmacy with 3 years of Service

Teacher Training
You must meet one of the following options:
• Teacher Induction
• Instructor Training
• courses

Technical knowledge:
• Technical Mastery of the Specialty

Attitudinal Factors:
• Service vocation
• Ethics
• Responsibility and Discipline
• Ability to Organize and Direct Work Teams
• Creativity
• Willingness to Change

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 PROGRAMMATIC UNITS

DURATION (HOURS)
PROGRAMMATIC UNITS Theoretica Practices Total
NUMBER 2
Basic Spreadsheet Management l 7 10
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3 Basic Principles of Pharmacy 10 10 20
4 Basic Mathematics and Metrology 10 10 20
5 Chemistry applied to Pharmacy 10 10 20
6 Human Anatomy and Philosophy 10 15 25
7 Pharmaceutical forms 15 20 35
8 Pharmaceutical Operations and Preparations 10 40 50
9 Recipe Management 04 12 16
10 Medicines 13 40 53

11 Storage and Inventory 07 24 31

12 Internships - 800 800
Total hours 92 988 1080

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 Unit No. 01. Spreadsheet Management
TERMINAL OBJECTIVE OF THE UNIT
Develop skills and abilities of the Excel Program to create, modify, present, diagram texts and/or tables
according to the indicated steps.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CONTENT

1.1 Describe the components of the windows in a
Spreadsheet following the procedure and
• Spreadsheet
complying with safety regulations. -Definition
-Utilization
• Window components
-Menu Bar
-Title bar
-Cells, columns, row
-Tool Bar
-Formula bar
-Scrollbar
-Status Bar
1.2 Enter the Spreadsheet following the technical
procedures, types, preparation of formats,
• Login to Hello Calculus
creation of documents and steps to select -Procedures
columns, rows and sheets. • Guys
-Definition
-Characteristics
-Cells
• Preparation of the Format
-Functions
-Steps
• Creating a document
-Steps

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 • Selection of columns, rows and sheets
-Steps

1.3 Explain the different types of Cell Format, • Types of Formats

preparation of statistical tables, preparation of -Numeric Format
pages and printing following the established -Text Format
procedure through compliance with the standards • Creating a box
-Steps
• Page preparation
- Orientation
-Scale
-Paper size
-Print quality
-Margins
-Printing area
-Page Order
• Impression
-Steps

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 Unit No. 2. Basic Principles of Pharmacy
TERMINAL OBJECTIVE OF THE UNIT
ACQUIRE BASIC KNOWLEDGE REGARDING PHARMACY AND ITS USEFULNESS IN THE SPECIALTY

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CONTENT

2.1. Define Health
• Health
-Definition
-Importance
2.2. Code of Deontology (Governs the Pharmacy
Professional
• Code of Deontology
-Definition
-Articles related to the Discipline of Pharmacy
2.3. Analyze the application of the Legal System
• Interpret the preamble and the different Articles of the
Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: 25,
26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 49, 51, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 144, 145,
146, 147 , 154, 155 and of the Laws:
• Organic Law on Prevention, Conditions and Work
Environment (LOPCYMAT): 01, 02, 46, 53, 54, 55, 56, 59,
65, 67, 69, 70.
• Organic Labor Law (LOT): 236, 237, 238, 246, 560, 561,
564, 565, 566, 567, 571, 572, 573, 583, 584, 633.
• Regulations of the Organic Labor Law (RLOT): 01, 02, 03,
15, 16, 17, 18 and 182.
• Organic Law of the Social Security System: 01, 02, 04, 05,
06, 07, 09, 14, 17, 18, 19, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 61,
65, 94, 96.
• Social Security Law: 01, 07 and 22.

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 • Organic Law of Administrative Procedures (LOPA): 901,
02, 03, 04, 05, 07 to 29, from 85 to 106.
• Current Civil Code: 1185, 1193 and 1196.
• Analyze the Public Service Statute Law
• Others.

• World Health Organization (WHO)

-Definition
-Functions
2.35 point out the functions of the World Health -Characteristics
Organization (WHO).
• Public health
-Definition
-Factors that affect
2.4 Describe the factors that affect Public Health.
• Health centers
-Definition
2.5 Explain the formation of Health Centers -Importance
-Characteristics

• Pharmacological Terms
2.6 Explain Terms Pharmacological -Definition
-Characteristics
considering its characteristics.
- Bruises
- Endemas
-Emollients
-Caustic
-Cologogue
-Choleretic

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2.7 Define Pharmacy
• Pharmacy
-History
• Definition as:
-Science
-Art
-Public service
• Establishment:
-Commercial
-Hospital
2.8 Describe the Pharmacy Sections
• Pharmacy Sections :
-Characteristics
-Technical specifications

2.9 Define Office and Shelving • Office and Shelving

-Definition
-Characteristics

2.10 Explain the location of the Medications within the

Pharmacy. • Medication Location
-Order:
.Alphabetical
.Laboratory
.Pharmaceutical form
.Nature

2.11 Establish the difference between reception, • Reception, storage, sanitary and regency
storage, sanitary and regency. - Definition
-Characteristics
-Technical specifications

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2.12 Explain the use of the most used books
in Pharmacy.
• Most used books in Pharmacy
-Forms
-Requests
-Pharmacopoeia
-Guide to Pharmaceutical Specialties
-Pharmacy Practice Law
-Remington Practical Pharmacy
-Psychotropic book
-Cototec book
-Insulin book
-Alcohol Ratio
-Guide to Medical Specialties
.Definition
.Use
.Legal Basis

2.13 Comment on the differences between

Pharmaceutical Establishments.
• Pharmaceutical Establishments
-Laboratory
-Representation House
-Drugstore
.Definition
.Characteristics

2.14 Explain the purpose of Pharmaceutical Shifts. • Pharmaceutical Shifts

-Definition
-Characteristics
-Groups
-Purpose

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2.15 Explain the importance of the Standards of
Customer Service within the Pharmaceutical Area.
• Public attention
-I mportance
-Standards of Care
-Health Standards

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 Unit No. 3. Basic Mathematics and Metrology
TERMINAL OBJECTIVE OF THE UNIT
APPLY THE THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE OF BASIC MATHEMATICS AND METROLOGY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF
ACTIVITIES APPLIED TO PHARMACY

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CONTENT

3.1 Define Invoice.
• Bill
-Definition
-Parts
-Guys
-Characteristics
3.2 Prepare an invoice, following the indicated
procedure and complying with the Safety and • Invoice preparation
Hygiene Standards -Procedure

3.3 Define Discount

• Discount
-Definition
-Guys
3.4 Calculate discounts on Pharmaceutical products -Characteristics
according to the given procedure
• Percentage applied to Pharmacy
3.5 Explain the importance of Metrology within the -Procedure
Pharmacy Specialty.
• Metrology
- Definition
-Importance
-Pharmacy Application
3.6 Describe the Decimal Metric System considering
its use.
• Metric system
-Definition
-Importance

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3.7 Carry out Measurement Conversions following the -Applications
given procedure.
• Units
-Pesos
-Volume
-Ability
-Other measures
-Equivalences
3.8 Identify the types of Measurement Instruments
according to their characteristics. • Measurement Instruments
- Definition
-Guys
-Characteristics
-Applications
-Techniques
-Rules

3.9 Use measuring instruments considering their use. • Raw Material Measurement
-Procedure
-Safety rules
3.10 Explain the types of weighing instruments,
according to their characteristics. • Weighing instruments
-Definition
-Guys
-Characteristics
3.11 Determine the weight of the raw material, using -Applications
the scale, emphasizing the Safety Standards. -Techniques
-Rules

• Weighing of Matter
- Procedure
- Safety rules

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 Unit No. 4. Chemistry applied to Pharmacy
TERMINAL OBJECTIVE OF THE UNIT
SOLVE CHEMISTRY PROBLEMS, APPLYING THE THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE STUDYED

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CONTENT

4.1 Comment on the importance of chemistry within the
Specialty
• Chemistry
-Definition
-Importance
4.2 Explain the physical states of matter based on the
characteristics • Subject
-Definition
-Characteristics
-States: (solid, liquid and gaseous)
4.3 Classify the elements of matter
• Elements of Matter
-Definition
-Classification

4.4 Exercise with the symbols using the table. • Most Symbols Using in Pharmacy
- Table Management
-Procedures
-Rules
4.5 Define mixtures pointing out their characteristics
• Mixtures
-Definition
-Types (homogeneous and heterogeneous)
-Characteristics

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4.6 Differentiate the characteristics of simple and
compound substances • Substances
-Definition
-Types (Simple, Composite, others).
4.7 Describe solutions according to their degree of
concentration.
• Solutions
-Definition
-Types (Saturated, Unsaturated, Supersaturated).

4.8 List the characteristics of the most used • Solution Components

components of Pharmaceutical Solutions. - Guys
- Characteristics
4.9 Prepare solutions following established Techniques
and complying with Safety Standards
• Preparation of Solutions
- Procedures
-Techniques
-Rules
4.10 Identify Types of Solvents
• Most used solvents
-Definition
-Guys
-Characteristics
4.11 State the characteristics of the solutes
• Solutes
-Definition
-Guys
-Characteristics
4.12 Point out the units of density
• Density
-Definition
-Units
-Density Exercise

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4.13 Define Mass and Volume
• Mass and Volume
-Definition
-Units
-Characteristics
-Procedures
-Mass and Volume Exercise

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 Unit No. 5. Human Anatomy and Physiology
TERMINAL OBJECTIVE OF THE UNIT
PROVIDE THE BASIC KNOWLEDGE THAT ALLOWS YOU TO DESCRIBE THE ORGANS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE HUMAN
BODY.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CONTENT

5.1 Point out the structures of the systems: Digestive, • Systems: Digestive, Respiratory, Nervous,
Respiratory, Highly Cardiovascular.
strung, -Definition
Cardiovascular. -Structure
-Functions
-Diseases

• Systems: Urinary, Bone, Endocrine, Muscular,

5.2 Mention Diseases of the Systems: Urinary, Bone, Lymphatic and Reproductive (Male and Female) -
Definition
Endocrine, Muscular, Lymphatic and
-Structure
Reproductive (Male and Female).
-Diseases

• Blood
-Functions
5.3 Explain the functions of blood
-Structure
-Diseases

• Senses
- Features
5.4 Describe the senses of the human body -Structure
-Diseases

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 • Routes of drug administration
5.5 Describe the forms of drug administration routes. -Shapes
-Characteristics

5.6 Explain the mechanisms of drug elimination • Drug elimination route

-Shapes
-Characteristics

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 Unit No. 6. Pharmaceutical forms
TERMINAL OBJECTIVE OF THE UNIT
DIFFERENTIATE THE VARIOUS PHARMACEUTICAL FORMS ACCORDING TO THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS AND
STANDARDS ESTABLISHED BY THE MINISTRY OF POPULAR POWER FOR HEALTH

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CONTENT

6.1 Define Pharmaceutical Forms • Pharmaceutical forms
-Definition
-Classification
-Characteristics
-Advantages and Disadvantages of each of them.

6.2 Differentiate Solid, Semi-Solid and Liquid Forms. • Differentiation of Pharmaceutical Forms
-Technical specifications
6.3 Comment on the Classification of Pharmaceutical
Forms. • Classification of Forms according to their route of
administration
- External use
6.4 Explain the characteristics of the Presentation -Internal use
Forms and Packaging Forms. -Both

• Packaging presentation form

-Characteristics

6.5 Describe the steps that a medication undergoes to

be administered.
• Steps that a medication undergoes in its
administration
-Orally
-Parenteral route

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 -Topical
-Rectal and/or Vaginal
-Disqualification
-Function
-Importance

• Agents
6.6 Explain the conditions that an agent must have. -Definition
-Types: Electric organ (smell, color and flavor)
-Concentration
-Conditions
-Requirements established by MPPS.

6.7 List the conditions that preservatives, • Preservatives-preservatives, antioxidants-surfactants

preservatives, antioxidants, and surfactants must - Definition
meet. -Concentration
-Guys
-Conditions
-Requirements established by MPPS.

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 Unit No. 7. Pharmaceutical Operations and Preparations
TERMINAL OBJECTIVE OF THE UNIT
APPLY TECHNICAL PROCEDURES IN THE PREPARATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL OPERATIONS AND REPAIRS,
ACCORDING TO THE INSTRUCTIONS SUPPLIED AND THE SAFETY AND HYGIENE STANDARDS

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CONTENT

7.1 Determine the importance of Pharmaceutical
Operations
• Pharmaceutical Operations
-Definition
-Guys:
. Mechanical
. Physics
. Chemistry
• Characteristics
• Applications
• Importance
7.2 Identify the characteristics of the most used
vehicles in Pharmaceutical Operations. • Most used vehicles
-Definition
-Guys
-Characteristics
7.3 Explain the control techniques of official -Purpose
preparations

7.4 Mention the parts that make up an official formula.

• Preparation techniques:
-Normative

• Official Formula.

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 -History
-Parts
-Synonymy
7.5 Prepare official formulas, following the established -Acronym
procedure and complying with safety regulations. • Preparation of official formulas
- Procedure
-Safety rules
7.6 Prepare water-based pasta following the steps
established in the official formula and complying • Preparation of pasta in water
with safety regulations. -Steps
-Safety rules
7.7 Explain the importance of the official record within
masterful preparations. • Master Preparation
- Definition
-Characteristics
-Control techniques
-Official register
-Importance
7.8Establish the differences between official and
master preparations. • Differences between official and master preparations
-Characteristics

7.9Explain the purpose of the recipe copy book. • Control of the receipt copier book .
- Definition
- Parts
-Data
-Techniques
-Purpose
7.10 Record in formula control book

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 following the established steps • Formula Registration
-Steps

7.11 Describe the types of packaging.

• Packaging of official and master formulas
- Definition
-Guys
-Characteristics
-Importance
7.12 Package the official and master Formulas
applying the established techniques and • Packaging techniques
complying with the standards. -Rules

7.13 Define Lettering • Lettering

-Definition
-Guys
7.14 Label pharmaceutical preparations, following the
procedure following • Labeling of preparations
-Procedure
-Rules
7.15 Calculate the cost of Pharmaceutical Formulations
following the established steps.
• Cost of Pharmaceutical Formulations
-Steps
7.16 Discuss the importance of the price key

• Price key
7.17 Order the technical procedure for price -Definition
application. -Technical specifications
-Importance

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 • Price key application
-Procedure
-Rules
Unit No. 8. Recipe Management
TERMINAL OBJECTIVE OF THE UNIT
IDENTIFY THE FORMS, CONSIDERING THE PRECAUTIONS BY THE MPPPS, IN THE DISPENSING OF MEDICATIONS

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CONTENT

8.1 Explain each of the parts that make up a recipe.
• Recipe
-Define
-Parts that make it up
8.2 Differentiate the types of recipes according to the
requirements established by the MPPPS. • Types of recipe
-White recipe
-Ordinary:
.Officer,
.Masterly,
.Pharmaceutical Specialty
-Special White Recipe
-Purple Recipe:
.Abbreviation,
.Indications
.Difference between recipe and indication.

8.3 Dispense psychotropic and narcotic drugs,

following the procedure and complying with the • Dispensing of psychotropic and narcotic drugs
Safety and Hygiene Standards. -Procedure
-Safety and hygiene standards
-Precautions

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8.4 File recipes following the procedure and • Recipe File
complying with Safety Standards and -Procedure
Hygiene.
• Preparation of recipes
8.5 Prepare recipes following the procedure and -Procedure
complying with Safety Standards. -Precautions

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 Unit No. 9. Medicines
TERMINAL OBJECTIVE OF THE UNIT
DIFFERENTIATE THE VARIOUS MEDICINES AND SIMILAR MEDICATIONS, ACCORDING TO THEIR USE AND
PRECAUTIONS IN THE OFFICE

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CONTENT

9.1. Define remedy, placebo, poison, • Remedy, Placebo, poison, excipient, antidote .
excipient, antidote. -Definition
-Characteristics
-Applications
9.2. Recognize the remedies, placebos,
excipients and antidote, according to • Technique for recognition
effectiveness in the body and technical -Technical specifications
specifications.

9.3. Describe the most used drugs based on the

precautions indicated by the MPPP • Drugs
-Definition
-Guys
-Characteristics
-Use
9.4. Explain the modifications that medications
-Precautions in the Office
undergo
• Medicines
-Definition
-Classification
-Modification that undergoes

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9.5. Distinguish the drug effects that occur in the
body • Drug effects
- Secondary
-Toxic
-Therapeutics
-Cumulative
-Tolerances

9.6.
Determine the characteristics of patented • Patented medicines
-Definition
medicines.
-Characteristics

9.7. List the advantages and disadvantages of

generic medications.
• Generic medications
-Definition
-Characteristics
-Advantages
-Disadvantages

9.8. Establish between

medicines
patented and generic
• Differences between patented and generic medicines

9.9. Point out the types of Drug Associations

• Medicines Association
- Definition
- Guys
- Characteristics

9.10. Recognize the stability of Medications

according to the criteria established by the • Drug Stability
WHO -Definition
-Expiration date
-WHO criteria
-Venezuelan health regulations
-FDA criteria

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9.11. State the characteristics of the packaging
• Packaging for stability
- Classification
-Guys
-Characteristics
9.12. Cite the reactions produced by viruses, fungi,
bacteria and yeasts in the body. • Viruses, Fungi, Bacteria and Yeasts
-Definition
- Classification
-Characteristics
9.13. Express the importance of an antibiogram -Reactions that produce

• Antibiogram
9.14. Read the antibiogram -Definition
-Importance

9.15. Point out the properties of antibiotics • Reading the antibiogram

-Steps

• Antibiotics
-Definition
-Guys
-Properties
-Presentation
-Danger in self-medication
-Secondary reactions
-Contraindications
-Tradenames
-Generic names
-Precautions in the Office

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9.16. Identify antibiotics using the Medical Specialties
guide, according to given instructions.
• Medication Identification
-Steps
9.17. Define antiseptics, disinfectants, antifungals,
anesthesias, analgesics
narcotics) antipyretics.
(Narcotics-non- • Antiseptics -disinfectants, Antifungals-anesthesia-
analgesics Narcotics-non-narcotics) antipyretics -
Definition
-Guys
-Properties
-Presentations
-Tradenames
-Generic names
-Precautions in the Office

9.18. Differences in antiseptics, disinfectants, • Differences antiseptics disinfectants,

antifungals, anesthetics, analgesics and antipyretics, antifungals, anesthesia, pain relievers and
attending to the antipyretics, taking into account the technical
Technical specifications. specifications.
-Techniques
-Specifications

9.19. State the properties of anti-inflammatories, • Anti-inflammatory, antirheumatic, cardiotonic,

antirheumatics, antihypertensive, antiarithmic, diuretic,
cardiotonics, antihypertensives, hypnotics, sedatives and anticonvulsants.
antiarrhythmic, diuretic, hypnotics, sedatives -Definition
and anticonvulsants. -Guys
-Properties
-Contraindications
-Presentations
-Tradenames

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 -Generic Names
-Precautions in the Office

• Antihistamines, anti-asthmatics, anti-colds,

expectorants, antitussives, fluidizers,
mucolytics, vitamins, antidiarrheals, laxatives,
antispasmodics, antacids, others
9.20. Explain and distinguish the contraindications of -Definition
antihistamines, anti-asthmatics, anti-colds, -Guys
expectorants, antitussives, fluidifiers, -Properties
mucolytics, vitamins, anti-diarrheals, laxatives, -Contraindications
antispasmodics, antacids, others -Presentations
-Tradenames
-Generic Names
-Precautions in the Office

• Antiparasitics, anthelmintics, antiprotozoals,

9.21. Define and identify anthelmintic antiparasitics,
antiprotozoa,
coagulants, contraceptives, agents that
promote conception, therapeutic fluids, radio
opaque, cancer treatment agents.
9.22. State disadvantages of hospital single doses
coagulants, contraceptives, agents that promote
conception, therapeutic fluids, radiopaque, cancer
treatment agents
• Hospital uniosis
-Definition
-Advantages and Disadvantages (Social and Therapeutic)

• Personnel working in the Unidosis area

9.23. Describe Work Plan, schedule and the rules -Workplan
that must govern the Unidosis area - Schedule
- Safety rules

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 Unit No. 10. Storage and Inventory
TERMINAL OBJECTIVE OF THE UNIT
STORE AND INVENTORY PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS CONSIDERING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MEDICINES
AND THE ESTABLISHED SAFETY AND HYGIENE STANDARDS AND TECHNIQUES

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CONTENT

10.1. Explain the factors involved when storing
medications.
• Medication storage
-Definition
-Factors involved
10.2. Explain the characteristics of the Inventory
• Inventory
-Definition
-Types (Perpetual, Periodic)
-Characteristics
10.3. Recognize the fifo and fefo techniques.
• fifo and fefo method
-Techniques
-Specifications
-Storage way
10.4. Carry out inventory control according to
established deadlines • Inventory control
-Steps
10.5. Indicate the types of existing inventories
• Existing Inventories
-Definition
-Guys
10.6. Analyze the causes and consequences that
affect the inventory • Inventory Failures
-Definition
-Causes and consequences
Unit No. 11. Internships

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TERMINAL OBJECTIVE OF THE UNIT
ACQUIRE SKILLS TO DEVELOP THE TASKS INHERENT TO THE PHARMACY STUDENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
ESTABLISHED RULES.

PRACTICE IN HOSPITAL PHARMACY

• Serve patients and professionals (doctors, nurses, radiologists, waitresses, others).
• Read and interpret medical records
• Check medication conservation status and expiration date.
• Record medication failures
• Dispensing medications, checking prescription Vs. Medical record
• Store medicines
• Cover stock of floors
• Check medication dosage and presentation
• Carry out physical stock inventory using the computer
• Receive and verify orders for medicines that enter the pharmacy, through the computer
• Clean and organize shelves as established
• Request management and national form
• Dispense dose per unit
• Make shift in hospital pharmacy

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 PRACTICE IN COMMERCIAL PHARMACY
• Serve the public
• Read and interpret medical prescriptions
• Check the conservation status of medications and expiration dates
• Record failures of cosmetics, medicines and miscellaneous items
• Identify and dispense pharmaceutical forms
• Process various payment methods (cash, checks, cards, ticket basket)
• Store medicines, cosmetics and sundries according to their conditions and requirements
• Clean and organize shelves according to the order established in the pharmacy
• Receive and verify orders for medicines and miscellaneous items that enter the pharmacy through the computer
• Verify the cost price and RRP of the medicines received
• Price medicines and sundries
• Carry out physical stock inventory
• Manage and interpret pharmacopeia and guides of medical specialties
• Prepare official and master formulas following appropriate techniques under the supervision of the pharmacist.
• Assign price keys
• Label prepared shapes
• Determine cost of prepared formulas
• Packaging, wrapping pharmaceutical products
• Take pharmaceutical shifts

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 RESOURCES

Each training institution that undertakes to implement the Pharmacy Assistant Course , with prior authorization from the
governing body, Ministry of Popular Power for Health, coordinated with the General Directorate of Research and Education,
through this Program, must have the following Instruments and materials:

• Computer Equipment
• Antibiogram • solid sample
• Pharmaceutical products
• Calculator • Glass stirrer
• Cash register
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• Conversion table
Counters electric stove
• conical measurement • Shelves • scrubber
• Gauged ball • Deposits • Absorbent paper
• Ball without lining • Glass containers • aluminum foil
• graduated pipettes • plastic containers • Gauze
• transfer pipettes • Pans • sponges
• Glasses of different sizes • Absorbent wipes
• Balls of different types • meson
• Pipettes of different shapes • Refrigerators
• Spatulas • Wooden Spatulas
• Balances • Glass stirrer
• Waxed paper • Volumetric measurements
• Robes
• Mortar
• Solvents

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• weighing paper
• Packaging
• Raw material
• Funnel

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