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Workbook and Lab Manual for Mosby's Pharmacy Technician

Principles and Practice

  • 5th Edition - February 2, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Elsevier Inc, Karen Davis, Anthony Guerra
  • Language: English

This easy-to-use, chapter-by-chapter companion to Mosby's Pharmacy Technician: Principles and Practice, 5th Edition helps you reinforce and master your understanding of key skill… Read more

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Description

This easy-to-use, chapter-by-chapter companion to Mosby's Pharmacy Technician: Principles and Practice, 5th Edition helps you reinforce and master your understanding of key skills and concepts. Each chapter of this combination workbook and lab manual contains a wide variety of review questions, exercises, and experiential lab activities to help reinforce key concepts, encourage students to reflect critically, and relate to practice for success on the job. Combined with the core textbook, this learning package takes you from day one through graduation and certification!

Key features

  • Comprehensive coverage
  • designed to align with the ASHP curriculum and Pharmacy Technician certification exam blueprints
  • Reinforce Key Concepts sections for review and practice
  • Reflect Critically sections with realistic scenarios to encourage content assimilation and application
  • Relate to Practice sections with laboratory exercises to provide hands-on practice to promote multi-dimensional skills mastery
  • Competency checklists for all procedures to track your progress with textbook procedures.

Table of contents

Unit I: Pharmacy Practice

1. History of Medicine and Pharmacy

2. Pharmacy Law, Ethics, and Regulatory Agencies

3. Competencies, Associations, and Settings for Technicians

4. Communication and Role of the Technician with the Customer/Patient

5. Dosage Forms and Routes of Administration

6. Conversions and Calculations

7. Drug Information References

8. Community Pharmacy Practice

9. Institutional Pharmacy Practice

10. Additional Pharmacy Practice Settings

11. Bulk Repackaging and Non-Sterile Compounding

12. Aseptic Technique and Sterile Compounding

13. Pharmacy Billing and Inventory Management

14. Medication Safety and Error Prevention

15. NEW! Pharmacy Operations Management

Unit II: Pharmacology and Medications

16. NEW! Drug Classifications

17. Therapeutic Agents for the Nervous System

18. Therapeutic Agents for the Endocrine System

19. Therapeutic Agents for the Musculoskeletal System

20. Therapeutic Agents for the Cardiovascular System

21. Therapeutic Agents for the Respiratory System

22. Therapeutic Agents for the Gastrointestinal System

23. Therapeutic Agents for the Renal System

24. Therapeutic Agents for the Reproductive System

25. Therapeutic Agents for the Immune System

26. Therapeutic Agents for Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat

27. Therapeutic Agents for the Dermatologic System

28. Therapeutic Agents for the Hematologic System

29. Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medications

30. Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)

Appendix A: Top 200 Prescription Drugs
Appendix B: Top 30 Herbal Remedies

Glossary

Index

Product details

  • Edition: 5
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 8, 2018
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Karen Davis

Karen Davis is a Pharmacy Technician Education Consultant, Society for the Education of Pharmacy Technicians (SEPhT) Lyons, Georgia; Pharmacy Technician Program Instructor, Florence Darlington Community College, Florence, South Carolina, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Pharmacy Technician Education Consultant, Society for the Education of Pharmacy Technicians (SEPhT), Lyons, Georgia; Pharmacy Technician Program Instructor, Florence Darlington Community College, Florence, South Carolina, USA

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Anthony Guerra

Professor Anthony Guerra works at Des Moines Area Community College, Ankeny, Iowa, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Des Moines Area Community College, Ankeny, Iowa, USA