Product Details
This product is an ASHP eLearning activity.
Overview
This self-guided, online program serves as a preparatory course for pharmacists planning to sit for the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) Board Certified Sterile Compounding Pharmacist (BCSCP) certification examination.
The program provides 38 hours of ACPE continuing education for pharmacists, incorporating recorded presentations, readings, and exercises in curricular modules. The program covers sterile product preparation practice standards and regulations, pharmacy calculations, facilities and engineering controls, cleanroom personnel behaviors, sterile compounding components and procedures, beyond-use date assignment, nonsterile to sterile compounding, hazardous drugs, managing products until final check or disposal, patient care, and quality management. After completing all of the modules, participants should be proficient in the both basic compounding techniques and advanced concepts required to manage safe and compliant sterile product preparation in a cleanroom environment.
Professional Certificate Requirement
Once a learner has successfully completed the educational curriculum, he/she has the opportunity to complete a comprehensive exam. If the learner successfully completes the exam (minimum 80% passing rate), he/she earns a professional certificate. The exam is an additional step after completing the continuing education modules.
Listing of the Compounded Sterile Preparations Certificate for Pharmacists Modules
| Learning Module |
ACPE # |
Credit Hours |
Introduction to Sterile Product Preparation for Pharmacists
|
0204-0000-19-739-H07-P
|
2.5
|
Calculations for Pharmacists
|
0204-0000-19-740-H07-P
|
1.75
|
Overview of Compounding Facilities and Engineering Controls for Pharmacists
|
0204-0000-19-741-H07-P
|
2.25
|
Cleanroom Personnel Basics for Pharmacists
|
0204-0000-19-742-H07-P
|
1.5
|
| Compounding Materials, Equipment, and Resources for Sterile Product Preparation for Pharmacists |
0204-0000-19-743-H07-P
|
3.25
|
| Getting Started in Sterile Product Preparation for Pharmacists |
0204-0000-19-744-H07-P
|
1.5
|
| Stability and Sterility: Assigning Beyond Use Dates for Pharmacists |
0204-0000-19-745-H07-P
|
2.5
|
| Aseptic Techniques for Compounding Non-Hazardous Preparations for Pharmacists |
0204-0000-19-746-H07-P
|
2.75
|
| Small Volume Parenterals and Other Non-Hazardous Preparations for Pharmacists |
0204-0000-19-747-H07-P
|
2.5
|
| Nonsterile to Sterile Compounding for Pharmacists |
0204-0000-19-748-H07-P
|
1
|
| Maintaining the Cleanroom Environment for Pharmacists |
0204-0000-19-749-H07-P
|
2.25
|
Handling Hazardous Drugs for Pharmacists: Part 1 |
0204-0000-19-750-H07-P
|
2
|
| Handling Hazardous Drugs for Pharmacists: Part 2 |
0204-0000-19-751-H07-P
|
2.5 |
| Managing the Product until Final Check or Disposal for Pharmacists |
0204-0000-19-752-H07-P |
3.5 |
| Patient Care |
0204-0000-19-753-H07-P |
3.25 |
| Quality Management |
0204-0000-19-754-H07-P |
3 |