Pharmacy technicians serve critical roles on the healthcare team and dependency on accurate calculations is paramount to ensure medication safety and effectiveness and optimal patient outcomes.
The second edition has been restructured to focus on the most important pharmacy calculation concepts—covering the fundamentals related to accuracy and basic math operations, units of measurement and conversions, critical thinking in problem solving, dosing calculations, percentages, concentration calculations, compounding formulas, intravenous infusion calculations, and business math.
Offering a complete review of the basic mathematics concepts and skills, Pharmacy Calculations: An Introduction for Pharmacy Technicians 2nd Edition provides students with the pharmacy basics necessary for correctly interpreting prescriptions and drug orders, and for performing dosing calculations that technicians face every day.
Who Should Read This?
Pharmacy technician students enrolled in a training program, technicians preparing for the certification exam, and for those participating in on-site training.
Inside the New Edition
The chapters are broken down into four units and organized to complement most pharmacy technician training curricula and to support the ASHP—ACPE model curriculum:
- Review of Mathematics
- Systems of Measurement
- Preparing for Problem Solving in Pharmacy
- Dosing Calculations and Other Pharmacy Problems
