UC Health
Infusion IV Pharmacy Technician, First Shift, Infusion Pharmacy
$25.04-33.19per hour
On-site, OhioFull-timeCSPT
CSPT Jobs
Compounding in a cleanroom is the work behind PTCB's CSPT, its certified compounded sterile preparation technician credential. Everything about the shift is procedure. How you gown, how you move inside the hood and what you write down are all specified.
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1The six-month clock inside a cleanroom
USP 797 wants the garbing watched with gloved fingertip sampling taken, the aseptic technique observed and a media fill passed, and for Category 1 and 2 compounding all of that comes back every six months. The garbing evaluation is asked for three separate times before you start and once on each round after. So the letters say you were trained once, and the cleanroom keeps asking whether you still are.
Your questions about CSPT jobs, answered
- Which jobs ask for a CSPT?
Sterile compounding jobs, in hospital pharmacy, infusion, and the compounding pharmacies and outsourcing facilities. USP Chapter 797 puts the competency evaluation on the site where the compounding happens, repeated and hands-on, and state boards are the ones enforcing it, so the CSPT is portable proof of training that sits beside the site's own checks.
- Can I earn it before I work in a cleanroom?
No. Both of PTCB's routes count sterile compounding you have already done, and it counts whether the job was full-time or part-time and whether compounding was all of it or part of it. The CPhT guide sets out the routes.
- Does keeping the CSPT depend on my employer?
Partly. PTCB wants a competency attestation signed by a qualified supervisor who has directly observed your training, skill assessment and competency assessment, first to award the certification and then every year. That signer can be a pharmacist or an experienced technician supervisor, but they have to have watched you work, so moving out of sterile compounding leaves nobody placed to sign.