The National Pharmacy Technician Association’s Pharmacy Technician Immunization Administration Training Program is designed to rapidly train hundreds of thousands of pharmacy technicians across the U.S. to administer COVID-19 vaccinations, as well as child vaccinations.

Developed under the guidance of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this ACPE-accredited program is by far the most affordable, accessible and scalable program of its kind.

Participants must complete six separate online learning modules (totaling five hours), each comprised of a recorded webinar and a module quiz. A score of 70% or higher is required for each quiz. After completing the self-study modules, participants must complete documented hands-on training and complete skill validations demonstrating proficiency.

Do you have a pharmacist on staff certified to give immunizations? If so, you can have the pharmacist validate your technicians' training hours and skill validations on-the-job. We will provide you with all the necessary forms and the instructions for your pharmacist/proctor. For the skill validations, technicians will be required to administer two injections (of sterile NaCl 0.9%) to the pharmacist/proctor - one subQ and one IM injection.

You can either order them from your wholesaler or we also offer individual training kits for purchase.

Note for Massachusetts: To ensure that NPTA's Immunization Administration Training Program fully complies with the requirements set forth in Massachusetts, we have added "Part III" to our program for pharmacy technicians practicing in Massachusetts. Part III will consist of two additional hours of LIVE hands-on training, as well as an additional exam. This will bring the total of ACPE-accredited hours to 6 hours of self-study and 4 hours of live training. The additional two hours have been accredited as UAN 0384-0000-21-007-L06-T. There is no additional charge for this.

*Source: 2019-2020 Certificate Course Evaluation