Sterile Compounding Fundamentals for Pharmacy Technicians
Aseptic preparation taught properly, for a role the training market has neglected.
Program overview
Sterile compounding is high-risk, highly regulated and poorly served by affordable short training — surveys have found severe shortages of technicians with sterile compounding experience. This course covers the knowledge component: contamination sources and microbiological basis, cleanroom classification and airflow, garbing and hand hygiene sequence, aseptic manipulation principles, hazardous drug handling and containment, beyond-use dating, environmental monitoring, and documentation. It is explicitly the knowledge foundation that must be paired with supervised practical competency assessment, and says so.
Why this program
Addresses a documented and severe skills shortage
Complete knowledge component, honestly scoped
Includes hazardous drug containment
Designed to pair with supervised competency assessment
Who it is for
Program objectives
- Explain the microbiological basis of contamination risk in sterile preparation
- Describe cleanroom classification, airflow and pressure principles
- Apply correct garbing and hand hygiene sequence
- Describe aseptic manipulation principles and critical site protection
- Apply hazardous drug handling and containment requirements
- Assign beyond-use dates and maintain compounding documentation
Learning outcomes
- Identify contamination risks in a described compounding scenario
- Sequence garbing correctly for a specified environment
- Recognise a breach of critical site protection in a described manipulation
- Apply hazardous drug containment requirements to a described preparation
- Assign an appropriate beyond-use date from given conditions
- Evaluate environmental monitoring results for action
Curriculum
Module 1: Contamination and Microbiology
1 lessonsContamination and MicrobiologyPreview
Sources, routes and why aseptic technique works.
Module 2: The Compounding Environment
1 lessons- The Compounding Environment
Module 3: Garbing and Hand Hygiene
1 lessons- Garbing and Hand Hygiene
Module 4: Aseptic Manipulation
1 lessons- Aseptic Manipulation
Module 5: Hazardous Drugs
1 lessons- Hazardous Drugs
Module 6: Dating, Monitoring and Records
1 lessons- Dating, Monitoring and Records
Duration and structure
6 lessons across 6 modules. Duration is expressed in study hours.
What you receive
This certificate confirms completion of Sterile Compounding Fundamentals for Pharmacy Technicians. Duration is expressed in study hours.
Delivery format
- Self-paced — start any time.
- Study on any device.
- Lifetime access to the version you enrolled in.