Is a pharmacy tech a good job for a nursing student? Is it relevant?

to what you need to learn as a nurse at all?

I worked as a pharmacy tech before and part of the time I was in my BSN program. I found that while the other students were struggling to learn drug names and the uses, I knew the names, generic names, usual doses, common uses, and comparable medications. I also had taken enough telephone calls to know the interactions, and side effects, as I had worked with the pharmacist on these (I became a pharm tech in part to see if I might want to consider being a pharmacist)

I also worked as a CNA. It only took 4 weekends to complete the training, and I could get agency work that I could fill and get some additional time to practice skills. However, from a knowledge to pass the NCLEX-RN standpoint, how to make a patient bed, and do the basic activities of daily living tasks for a patient as an NA provided me with significantly less information than my time learning medications as a pharmacy tech.

I also learned more, when I worked as a Surgical Technologist, while in nursing school, where I worked with sterile fields, and saw the anatomy of disease.

Remember, if you want to be an RN, your end goal is not to learn technical tasks. You will learn those, and they are a part of nursing, but it is the knowledge of the medications, their interactions, the nursing implications of those medications, the surgeries, the limitations imposed, and the changes to the activities of daily living required.

An RN manages patient care, and coordinates the activites of the health care team as it relates to the hospitalized or homebound patient (there are other RN occupations but this is 90%), the technical aspects are usually performed by the NAs and LPNs, and the RNs need to make sure it runs smoothly and is appropriate for the condition, for that you need knowledge, not practice doing bed baths.

not even close at all. Two different jobs, different responsibilities, different everything. RNs make triple whatever a tech will make. They are nt related jobs at all.

Not really. The only good thing you'd learn from being a pharmacy tech is the names of all the different types of medication and what they'd be used for. If you really want to get job related to your studies in nursing, consider finding a job working as a nurses aide in a nursing home. Many hospitals have what's called a Patient Care Technician position which is basically working as a nurses aide as well. These would be far more relevant.

Definitely it is a good job while you are a nursing student. This will help you with pharmacology. Will be a tremendous help when you work on the floor figuring correct drips and dosages