Main description:

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

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

Unit Two - Pharmacology and Medications

16 Drug Classifications and Foundations

17 Therapeutic Agents for the Gastrointestinal System

18 Therapeutic Agents for the Musculoskeletal System

19 Therapeutic Agents for the Nervous System

20 Therapeutic Agents for the Immune System

21 Therapeutic Agents for the Cardiovascular System

22 Therapeutic Agents for the Respiratory System

23 Therapeutic Agents for the Endocrine System

24 Therapeutic Agents for the Renal System

25 Therapeutic Agents for the Reproductive 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)