Main description:

Ensuring competency in maths skills is a fundamental part of pharmacy education as accurate pharmaceutical calculations are crucial to the safe and effective use of drugs. This text combines both the scientific calculations underpinning dosage forms with calculations relating to pharmacy practice in a single resource.

An innovative student-centred approach is taken throughout the text, with numerous worked examples and self-test questions to stimulate self-directed learning. Frequent case studies highlight the importance of maths to pharmacy, and help students to make that crucial connection between theory and practice, while key take-home messages for each section are summarised in concise learning-point boxes.

Written by leading academics with a wealth of experience in pharmacy education Maths Skills for Pharmacy is the ideal textbook for the subject.

Online Resource Centre
The Online Resource Centre to accompany Maths Skills for Pharmacy features:

For registered adopters of the book:
- Figures from the book, available to download.

For students:-Interactive multiple choice questions with feedback keyed to the relevant section in the text
-Short answer questions with worked solutions

Contents:

1. Introduction: the importance of maths in pharmacy ; 2. Pharmaceutical mathematical terminology ; 3. Mathematical basics in pharmacy: measurements and data ; 4. Maths supporting the science of pharmacy ; 5. Quantities to dispense: accuracy within supply ; 6. Handling pharmaceutical products: concentrations and dilutions ; 7. Intravenous and associated medication routes ; 8. Basic statistics, calculus and pharmacokinetics