Workbook and Lab Manual for Mosby's Pharmacy Technician: Principles and Practice

by Elsevier Inc, Karen Davis BHS, CPhT, Anthony Guerra PharmD, RPh

Overview

This easy-to-use, chapter-by-chapter companion to Mosby's Pharmacy Technician: Principles and Practice, 6th Edition helps you solidify your understanding and mastery 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 you 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!

• Comprehensive content aligns with ASHP competencies and certification exam coverage.
• Reinforce Key Concepts sections offer valuable review and practice.
• Reflect Critically sections with realistic scenarios encourage content assimilation and application.
• Relate to Practice sections with laboratory exercises provide hands-on practice to promote multi-dimensional skills mastery.
• Skills checklists correlated to textbook procedures enable you to track your progress on key competencies.

• NEW! Additional content ensures thorough coverage of all entry-level and many advanced ASHP accreditation competencies, including:
• Wellness, disease prevention, and immunizations
• Medication compliance and point-of-care testing
• Professional and regulatory standards
• Medication requiring special handling and documentation
• Nonsterile and sterile compounding
• Advanced Pharmacy Technician duties

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323734080
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	05/24/2021
Edition description:	6th ed.
Pages:	432
Sales rank:	94,775
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Unit One: 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 Stock and Billing
14. Medication Safety and Error Prevention
Unit Two: Pharmacology and Medications
15. Therapeutic Agents for the Nervous System
16. Therapeutic Agents for the Endocrine System
17. Therapeutic Agents for the Muscular/Skeletal System
18. Therapeutic Agents for the Cardiovascular System 
19. Therapeutic Agents for the Respiratory System
20. Therapeutic Agents for the Gastrointestinal System
21. Therapeutic Agents for the Renal System
22. Therapeutic Agents for the Reproductive System
23. Therapeutic Agents for the Immune System
24. Therapeutic Agents for Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat
25. Therapeutic Agents for the Dermatologic System
26. Therapeutic Agents for the Hematologic System
27. Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medications
28. Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)

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Learn to think critically while reinforcing your understanding of key pharmacy technology concepts