Full Description
This easy-to-use, chapter-by-chapter companion to Mosby's Pharmacy Technician: Principles and Practice, Seventh 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 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!
NEW! Coverage of the latest information on telehealth, virtual patient communication, infection protection, and medications
EXPANDED! Additional content on non-sterile and sterile compounding and foundational math calculations
Comprehensive coverage designed to align with the ASHP curriculum and Pharmacy Technician certification exam blueprints
Built from the ground up to map to the latest ASHP accreditation standards and competencies
Reinforce Key Concepts sections offer helpful 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 for all textbook procedures enable you to track your progress on key competencies
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 and Advanced Roles for Technicians
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. Pharmacy Operations Management and Workflow
Unit Two: Pharmacology and Medications
16. 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 Medications
30. Complementary and Alternative Medicine
