Main description:

Take your first step toward a successful career as a pharmacy technician with Mosby's Pharmacy Technician: Principles and Practice, 3^rd Edition. This comprehensive text makes essential skills and concepts approachable and easy to understand with clear writing, expert insight, and engaging study tools. Ensure success in class and in your future career with a fundamental understanding of basic sciences, the role of the pharmacy technician in the pharmacy setting, medication safety, drug classifications, and more!

Contents:

Section One: General Pharmacy

1. History of Medicine and Pharmacy
2. Laws and Ethics of Pharmacy
3. Pharmacy Associations, certification, and Settings for Technicians/Competency, Communication, and Ethics
4. Conversions and Calculations Used by Pharmacy Technicians and Math Review
5. Dosage Forms, Abbreviations, and Routes of Administration
6. Referencing
7. Prescription Processing
8. Over the Counter Medication and Skin Anatomy
9. Complementary Alternative Medications
10. Hospital Pharmacy
11. Repackaging and Compounding
12. Aseptic Technique
13. Pharmacy Stock and Billing
14. Medication Safety and Error Prevention

Section Two: Body Systems

15. Endocrine System
16. Nervous System
17. Psychopharmacology
18. Respiratory System
19. Visual and Auditory Systems
20. Gastrointestinal System
21. Urinary System
22. Cardiovascular System
23. Reproductive System

Section Three: Classifications of Drugs

24. Anti-infectives
25. Anti-inflammatories and Antihistamines
26. Vitamins and Minerals
27. Vaccines
28. Oncology Agents

Section Four: Basic Science for the Pharmacy Technician

29. Microbiology
30. Chemistry

Section Five: Starting Your Career as a Pharmacy Technician

31. Review for Pharmacy Technician Certification

Appendices

  A.  Abbreviations

  B.  200 Top Selling Trade Names for Drugs

  C.  Top Herbal Remedies

  D.  Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act if 1996 (HIPPA)

  E.  Proper Hand Care for Medical Asepsis in Pharmacy

Answer Key to Odd-Numbered Review Exercises