ISBN: 9789381714973
Edition: 5th (2014)
Author : Don A. Ballington, Tova Wiegand- Green
Year: 2014
Pages: 392
Size: 14 X21.5 cm
Publisher Name: MedTech
With this exceptional textbook, students gain the necessary knowledge, skills, and confidence to provide safe and effective care for the patients they will serve in their future careers. Chapter content provides a stepped approach to pharmacy calculations by laying a foundation of number sense in the beginning chapters and building to more complex calculations related to parenteral medications.
Students using the textbook and Study Partner CD will:
In addition, four appendices provide important resources for pharmacy technician students. These appendices include:
The Study Partner CD supports student learning with:
New chapter features include:
In addition to these new features, Pharmacy Calculations for Technicians continues to offer:
1. Understanding Subdivisions of Numbers, Number Systems, Estimating, and Accuracy.
2. Using Ratios, Percents, and Proportions.
3. Developing Literacy Skills.
4. Applying Metric Measurements and Calculating Doses.
5. Using Household Measure in Pharmacy Calculations.
6. Preparing Injectable Medications.
7. Preparing Intravenous Medications.
8. Using Special Calculations in Compounding.
9. Using Business Math in the Pharmacy.
Appendix A. Answers to Problem Sets.
Appendix B. Additional Practice with Fractions and Percents.
Appendix C. Additional Practice with Compounding.
Appendix D. Measures and Conversions.
Glossary
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