Mosby’s Pharmacy Technician Exam Review
- 4th Edition - June 29, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: James J. Mizner
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 4 9 7 2 4 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 5 6 9 4 0 - 8
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Request a sales quotePrepare for success on your certification exam! Mosby's Pharmacy Technician Exam Review, 4th Edition provides a complete review of core knowledge, thousands of review questions, and nine practice exams – plus a custom online engine that allows for unlimited opportunities to practice specific topics or create unique simulated exams. A bulleted, outline format makes review easier, reinforcing understanding with full-color illustrations, photographs, and summary tables. All questions reflect the latest exam blueprints. This resource provides you comprehensive support every step of the way for entry-level or sterile compounding certification.
- Convenient, easy-to-follow outline format provides a comprehensive review of pharmacy technician exam topics.
- Mapping tables link content to the knowledge categories on the PTCE and ExCPT exam blueprints, including pharmacology and medications, law, patient safety, and quality assurance.
- 700 electronic flashcards help you memorize key facts by covering the most commonly prescribed drugs, common herbals, abbreviations, and more.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Reviewers
- Preface
- Dedication
- Pretest
- Pharmacy technician certification examination test-taking skills
- Prepare for the test
- On the day of the test
- As you take the test
- 1. Medications
- Drug
- Pharmacology
- Pharmacokinetics
- Bioavailability
- Bioequivalence
- Narrow therapeutic index
- Biosimilars
- Pharmaceutical equivalent
- Pharmaceutical alternatives
- Therapeutic equivalence
- Therapeutic equivalence codes
- Interactions
- Drug-related problems
- Boxed warning
- Pregnancy and lactation labeling ruling (PLLR)
- Drug nomenclature
- Conditions and treatments for the nervous system
- Treatments for migraine headaches
- Conditions and treatments for the cardiovascular system
- Conditions and treatments for the urinary system
- Conditions and treatments for the respiratory system
- Conditions and treatments for the endocrine system
- Conditions and treatments for the reproductive system
- Conditions and treatments for the digestive system
- Conditions and treatments for the musculoskeletal system
- Conditions and treatments for the immune system
- Allylamines
- Antineoplastic agents
- Conditions and treatments for the integumentary system
- Conditions and treatments for the ophthalmic/otic systems
- Vitamins, electrolytes, and herbal medications
- Drug stability
- Physical, chemical, and therapeutic incompatibilities
- Factors affecting product stability
- Proper storage of medications
- Chapter 1 review questions
- Resources
- 2. Federal requirements
- 3. Patient safety and quality assurance
- 4. Order entry and processing
- 5. Compounded sterile products
- 6. Practice examinations
- CPhT Practice examination I
- CPhT Practice examination II
- CPhT Practice examination III
- CPhT Practice examination IV
- CPhT Practice examination V
- ExCPT Practice examination I
- ExCPT Practice examination II
- CSPT Practice examination I
- CSPT Practice examination II
- Appendix A: Certification examination information
- Appendix B: Drug nomenclature: Stems used by the U.S. adopted names council
- Appendix C: Top 200 prescribed medications (based on filled prescriptions)a
- Appendix D: Common over-the-counter products
- Appendix E: Institute for safe medication practices list of error-prone abbreviations, symbols, and dose designations
- Appendix F: Medical root words, suffixes, and prefixes
- Appendix G: Pharmaceutical abbreviations
- Appendix H: Medical abbreviations
- Answers and rationales
- Index
- Edition: 4
- Published: June 29, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323497244
- eBook ISBN: 9780323569408
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James J. Mizner
Jim Mizner is a registered pharmacist in the state of Virginia, where he has actively practiced for more than 30 years. Jim has experience teaching in the Pharmacy Technician space and transitioned into instructional design and administration in the for-profit sector in the early 2000s, where he worked for about a decade before starting his consulting business. Jim is the founding author of Mosby’s Pharmacy Technician Exam Review, which has prepared thousands of students and practitioners to pass the certification exam, and has worked as an item writer and consultant in the development of Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing for Mosby’s Pharmacy Technician. He is active in the Pharmacy Technician Educators Council (PTEC) and works closely with the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) and the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES). In addition, Jim serves as an accreditation site visitor for ABHES.
Affiliations and expertise
Founder and President Panacea Solutions Consulting Reston, Virginia, USA