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
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UNIT ONE PHARMACY PRACTICE |
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1 History of Medicine and Pharmacy |
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1 | (5) |
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2 Pharmacy, Law, Ethics, and Regulatory Agencies |
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6 | (15) |
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3 Competencies, Associations, and Settings for Technicians |
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21 | (15) |
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4 Communication and Role of the Technician With the Customer/Patient |
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36 | (7) |
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5 Dosage Forms and Routes of Administration |
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43 | (18) |
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6 Conversions and Calculations |
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61 | (20) |
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7 Drug Information References |
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81 | (9) |
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8 Community Pharmacy Practice |
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90 | (31) |
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9 Institutional Pharmacy Practice |
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121 | (13) |
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10 Additional Pharmacy Practice Settings |
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134 | (7) |
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11 Bulk Repackaging and Nonsterile Compounding |
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141 | (34) |
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12 Aseptic Technique and Sterile Compounding |
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175 | (28) |
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13 Pharmacy Billing and Inventory Management |
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203 | (12) |
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14 Medication Safety and Error Prevention |
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215 | (15) |
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15 Pharmacy Operations Management |
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230 | (6) |
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UNIT TWO PHARMACOLOGY AND MEDICATIONS |
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236 | (8) |
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17 Therapeutic Agents for the Nervous System |
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244 | (18) |
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18 Therapeutic Agents for the Endocrine System |
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262 | (16) |
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19 Therapeutic Agents for the Musculoskeletal System |
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278 | (13) |
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20 Therapeutic Agents for the Cardiovascular System |
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291 | (18) |
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21 Therapeutic Agents for the Respiratory System |
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309 | (11) |
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22 Therapeutic Agents for the Gastrointestinal System |
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320 | (9) |
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23 Therapeutic Agents for the Renal System |
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329 | (12) |
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24 Therapeutic Agents for the Reproductive System |
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341 | (10) |
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25 Therapeutic Agents for the Immune System |
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351 | (15) |
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26 Therapeutic Agents for the Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Throat |
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366 | (14) |
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27 Therapeutic Agents for the Dermatologic System |
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380 | (13) |
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28 Therapeutic Agents for the Hematologic System |
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393 | (10) |
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29 Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medication |
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403 | (10) |
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30 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) |
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Karen Davis is a Pharmacy Technician Education Consultant, Society for the Education of Pharmacy Technicians (SEPhT) Lyons, Georgia; Pharmacy Technician Program Instructor, Florence Darlington Community College, Florence, South Carolina, USA. Professor Anthony Guerra works at Des Moines Area Community College, Ankeny, Iowa, USA.
