Sterile Compounding Fundamentals for Pharmacy Technicians

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Who it is for

Pharmacist · Allied Health · Nurse · Quality Officer

4. 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

5. 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

6. Curriculum

1. Module 1: Contamination and Microbiology

   • Contamination and Microbiology

2. Module 2: The Compounding Environment

   • The Compounding Environment

3. Module 3: Garbing and Hand Hygiene

   • Garbing and Hand Hygiene

4. Module 4: Aseptic Manipulation

   • Aseptic Manipulation

5. Module 5: Hazardous Drugs

   • Hazardous Drugs

6. Module 6: Dating, Monitoring and Records

   • Dating, Monitoring and Records

7. Duration and structure

Total study hours: 4 — 3.25h content + 0.75h assessment. Duration is expressed in study hours only.

9. What you receive

This certificate confirms completion of Sterile Compounding Fundamentals for Pharmacy Technicians. Duration is expressed in study hours.

10. Delivery format

Self-paced · start any time · any device · lifetime access to the enrolled version.