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A. An applicant for licensure as a pharmacy technician must:
1. Be at least eighteen years of age.
2. Have a high school diploma or the equivalent of a high school diploma.
3. Complete a training program prescribed by board rules.
4. Pass a board-approved pharmacy technician examination.
B. An applicant to register as a pharmacy technician trainee must:
1. Be at least eighteen years of age.
2. Register with the board via an online application.
C. Before a pharmacy technician prepares, compounds or dispenses prescription medications at a remote dispensing site pharmacy, the pharmacy technician shall:
1. Complete, in addition to any other board-approved mandatory continuing professional education requirements, a two-hour continuing education program on remote dispensing site pharmacy practices provided by an approved provider.
2. Have at least one thousand hours of experience working as a pharmacy technician in an outpatient pharmacy setting under the direct supervision of a pharmacist.
D. A pharmacy technician working at a remote dispensing site pharmacy:
1. Shall maintain an active, nationally recognized pharmacy technician certification approved by the board.
2. May not perform extemporaneous sterile or nonsterile compounding but may prepare commercially available medications for dispensing, including the reconstitution of orally administered powder antibiotics.