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How much math is required to become a pharmacy technician?

I was thinkin of this career at one time but im not great at math. would this hold me back from pursuing this career? im thinking of anything in the medical field and my other choice would be a insurance coding and billing specialist and the other is a LVN. Anything in the health care industry where i help people in some way is what im planning to do. is Pharmacy Technician to far out fo reach? Or should i try it even though im not good at math?

Public Comments

1. I think it's mainly science
2. lots of math, identifing, and collage.
3. you need to be good at Chemistry and Maths!
4. No it is not too far to reach, I say go for it. Walgreen's had an ad on the web for a people interested in becoming a Pharmacy Tech and they would train you!!!
5. It depends on what kind of tech you'd like to be. In a hospital there will be more math. But in either retail or hospital pharmacy ratios, and simple math is needed. The end up being word problems. Knowing unit conversions is also helpful. Prescriptions (Rx) are often written as milliliters (mL) but need to be converted to tablespoons and teaspoons for the patient on the label and you need to figure out how much is needed to fill a Rx. A Rx may ask for 10 ml of an antibiotic for a child to be given 2 times a day for 7 days. So 1 teaspoon - 5 ml and 1 tablespoon = 15 ml. That type of math. Each dose is 2 teaspoons which is what needs to be written on the label. The total needed to fill the Rx bottle is 10 ml x 2 doses x 7 days... so 140 ml. You don't have to be good at math, just care about people.