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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Attracting—and Keeping—Skilled Pharmacy Technicians

By Karen Blum

A six-month leadership residency program for pharmacy technicians at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center that provides them one-on-one training in hiring, inpatient operations and more is slowly increasing the number of homegrown technician leaders at the institution.

To date, six technicians have gone through the program, five of whom have been promoted to leadership roles, said Ryan Craynon, PharmD, MS, the hospital’s director of pharmacy operations, at the