Service Learning Project Summary
The purpose of this paper is to report a service learning project that took place with a senior certified pharmacy technician (CPhT) about the roles she has in a clinical trial setting. This paper aims to provide an understanding of the daily roles a CPhT has in a clinical trial setting as well as what role a CPhT in a privet pharmacy setting has in the clinical trial. By exploring the roles and responsibilities of the CPhT within the clinical trial pharmacy team we hope to better understand the way clinical trials are conducted.
A clinical trial is used to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a new drug or a new medical procedure (Merrill, 2013, p. 205) and randomized controlled trials are the most common type of trial conducted in clinical …show more content…
The ‘senior’ in the technician’s title indicates that she has been nationally certified and practicing for a minimum of ten years. This particular CPhT has been practicing for roughly twenty years. The ‘sterile’ in her title indicates that she has undergone additional training and certifications in order to practice sterile product production, such as steroid injections, vitamin injections and/or total parenteral nutrition (TPN). This CPhT currently works with local randomized clinical trials as part of the clinical trial pharmacy team in addition to working at a local sterile compounding pharmacy. The local compounding pharmacy that she works for also provides some of the medication used in certain parts of some of the clinical …show more content…
In a clinical trial all treatment must be equal. All subjects must eat the same food, the same amount of food and at the same time. Well the medication must be the same too, not just the treatment being studied but all subsequent medications. That means that if the subjects are testing a smoker’s sensation treatment but need to take medication for high blood pressure, then it is critical that all of the blood pressure medications are the same. They must all come from the same drug manufacture and from the same batch containing the same lot numbers. This responsibility falls on the independent
A clinical trial is used to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a new drug or a new medical procedure (Merrill, 2013, p. 205) and randomized controlled trials are the most common type of trial conducted in clinical …show more content…
The ‘senior’ in the technician’s title indicates that she has been nationally certified and practicing for a minimum of ten years. This particular CPhT has been practicing for roughly twenty years. The ‘sterile’ in her title indicates that she has undergone additional training and certifications in order to practice sterile product production, such as steroid injections, vitamin injections and/or total parenteral nutrition (TPN). This CPhT currently works with local randomized clinical trials as part of the clinical trial pharmacy team in addition to working at a local sterile compounding pharmacy. The local compounding pharmacy that she works for also provides some of the medication used in certain parts of some of the clinical …show more content…
In a clinical trial all treatment must be equal. All subjects must eat the same food, the same amount of food and at the same time. Well the medication must be the same too, not just the treatment being studied but all subsequent medications. That means that if the subjects are testing a smoker’s sensation treatment but need to take medication for high blood pressure, then it is critical that all of the blood pressure medications are the same. They must all come from the same drug manufacture and from the same batch containing the same lot numbers. This responsibility falls on the independent