Mosby's Pharmacy Technician: Principles and Practice

By Elsevier and Teresa Hopper BS CPhT

Book Overview

784 pagesA full-color layout and hundreds of illustrations highlight important information and bring key concepts to life.Learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter help focus study time.Key terms with definitions introduce the vocabulary used in the pharmacy setting.Drug names with pronunciations demonstrate how to say and spell medication names correctly, an essential part of the pharmacy technician's job.Tech Notes offer helpful tips, hints, cautions, and safety information.A brief overview of anatomy and physiology offers a better understanding of how drugs work in the body.Mosby's Essential Drugs for Pharmacy Technicians, powered by Gold Standard. This new, online resource will include detailed drug monographs for the top 200 drugs dispensed in the United States.Pharmacist's Perspective boxes offer insights to the pharmacist's point of view for various on-the-job situations.Do You Remember These Key Points? boxes summarize key concepts in each chapter.The Technician's Corner features learning exercises that relate new information to realistic clinical situations.A comprehensive glossary in both English and Spanish includes all key terms and definitions from the book.A new chapter on PTCB exam review offers a 125-question multiple-choice practice exam that mirrors the content and format of the actual exam.Tech Alert boxes provide critical reminders for avoiding common pharmacy errors.Nearly 100 new pill images in this edition assist in identifying drugs on sight and reducing the risk of pharmacy errors.Additional math exercises on the Companion CD and the Evolve website offer more opportunities to strengthen math skills.This edition has been completely updated to include the latest drugs, regulations, HIPAA information, and more to ensure safe, effective practice.Updated Companion CD bound in every text includes animations, additional math exercises, and English/Spanish audio glossary, chapter quizzes, and more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416039406
• ISBN13: 9781416039402
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 776 Pages
• Weight: 3.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.3" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Mosby's Pharmacy Technician

I am very happy with the book, and was extremely pleased with the quickness in which I received the book.

Passed the exam

I wasn't an A student in Math when I attended school almost 27 years ago, the book was an excellent tool, my exam contained a lot it was dosage calculations such as IV doses, compounding different strengths of creams together to get one, .... and you had to know the different schedules of drugs I-VI i studied very hard and it payed off, I PASSED but i cant say it was because of this book, I used the material here Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam (PTCE, PTCB) Simulation Software. 3,020 Questions. PTCB Practice Calculations, PTCB Practice Medication Usage and Administration. HIGHLY recommended

Well rounded-book

This is one of the better books available to give you a good general feel for all the different aspects of the pharmacy technician's job responsibilities. There are a lot of color pictures and examples which are lacking in many other books. The book gives a general description of the different positions a pharmacy technician may hold such as duties in a hospital setting or in a retail setting, special duties such as preparing chemotherapy drugs, IV drugs and compounding, and also includes chapters on the different body systems and drugs that treat diseases in each system. A CD comes with the book that has animations of the body systems and problems to work on to help prepare for the certification exam. The appendix includes a list of 200 of the more popular drugs and a math review. There is also a practice exam at the end. This is a good all inclusive book if you only want to buy one book that covers a little of everything instead of buying all the books in a series. I work as a technician in a pharmacy and I would recommend this book.

Text Books are the way to go...

There are a lot of people out there with on the job experience in broad career paths. Text books are very useful, no matter what your goal, or study method. Some things you learn and forget, this book explains everything. From terms to dosage calculations. I recommend this book to anyone seeking a certification as a pharm tech. It helped me.

Easy on the eyes and on the mind for a text book.

This is a great stand alone basic text. It covers the info you need and more. The best part is that while this text is not exactly a page turner, it is well written and the colorful layout will help keep you awake through the boring details. The topics range from basic human biology and disease processes to laws related to pharmacology to history and procedures in hospitals and retail pharmacies. What is missing from this text and ALL the others that I have seen is the more meaty information on insurance processing and DEA audits. (While not a must for passing the certifying exam, it is essential to working in retail pharmacy.) The free CD on drugs and herbs is interactive for the web and is probably worth $20 by itself. I also bought the work book, which I recommend. If I were teaching Pharmacy Technicians at a community college, this is the basic text I would use because the layout and flow keep the miind engaged. I am a nurse and have an AAS.