A one-of-a-kind consumer guidebook which answers questions on more than 500 over-the-counter medications. The book describes symptoms for common problems, then lists over-the-counter drugs to alleviate specific conditions. It also covers interactions, precautions and side effects.
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
Take your first step toward a successful career as a pharmacy technician with Mosby's Pharmacy Technician: Principles and Practice, 3rd Edition. This comprehensive text makes essential skills and concepts approachable and easy to understand with clear writing, expert insight, and engaging study tools. Ensure success in class and in your future career with a fundamental understanding of basic sciences, the role of the pharmacy technician in the pharmacy setting, medication safety, drug classifications, and more! Complete coverage of community and institutional pharmacy practice settings helps you understand your valuable role as a pharmacy technician. A&P content helps you understand how drugs work in the human body. Comprehensive drug tables provide fast, easy access to essential pharmaceutical facts. Tech Notes and Tech Alerts highlight steps you can take to enhance efficiency and avoid common errors on the job. Pharmacist's Perspective boxes provide practical insight on common scenarios you'll encounter in practice. Technician's Corner boxes challenge you to apply your critical thinking skills to chapter content. Abbreviated drug monographs familiarize you with essential pharmaceutical data for common drugs: Generic/trade names Route of administration Common dosage Side effects Auxiliary label Medication Safety and Error Prevention chapter helps you confidently address growing concerns related to patient safety and prevent medication-related errors. Revised Math Calculations chapter incorporates helpful information to clarify complex pharmaceutical calculations. Updated content prepares you for the Pharmacy Technician Certification (PTC) exam and highlights current concerns you'll encounter in the workforce: HIPAA regulations The Medicare Modernization Act Legal parameters for the sale of pseudoephedrine products The issuance of multiple Schedule II prescriptions Pending legislation requirements for Medicaid prescriptions The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) New full-color photographs familiarize you with current practice settings. Learning games and certification review quizzes on the companion Evolve website reinforce your understanding and challenge you to apply what you've learned.
Get everything you need to prepare for a successful career as a pharmacy technician in one easy-to-read textbook! Useful from day one through graduation, Mosby's Pharmacy Technician: Principles and Practice, 6th Edition includes comprehensive information on pharmacy practice, anatomy and physiology, math calculation, and pharmacology. Built from the ground up to map directly to American Society for Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) accreditation competencies and to the accepted certification exams, this approachable text covers everything from processing and handling of medications and medication orders to patient safety, quality assurance, and regulation and compliance. It also features a rich art program with equipment close-ups, clinical procedures and processes, and body system illustrations that bring the content to life and visually reinforce your understanding of key concepts. With its clear writing, expert insight, and engaging study tools, this text will help you develop a solid foundation in the pharmacy content you need to pass the board examination and launch a successful and rewarding career. - Comprehensive coverage of pharmacy practice, A&P, and pharmacology supports classroom success and board exam preparation. - Step-by-step, illustrated procedures provide rationales for key skills and competencies. - Study practice includes review questions at the end of each chapter, an exam-review appendix with sample questions, and online review questions. - Scenario boxes help you develop real-world problem-solving skills. - Mini drug monographs provide drug information summaries and photos for commonly prescribed medications. - Tech Notes and Tech Alerts offer practical tips for on-the-job accuracy and efficiency. - 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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Prepare for success on your certification exam! Mosby's Pharmacy Technician Exam Review, 4th Edition provides a complete review of core knowledge, thousands of review questions, and nine practice exams – plus a custom online engine that allows for unlimited opportunities to practice specific topics or create unique simulated exams. A bulleted, outline format makes review easier, reinforcing understanding with full-color illustrations, photographs, and summary tables. All questions reflect the latest exam blueprints. This resource provides you comprehensive support every step of the way for entry-level or sterile compounding certification. - Convenient, easy-to-follow outline format provides a comprehensive review of pharmacy technician exam topics. - Mapping tables link content to the knowledge categories on the PTCE and ExCPT exam blueprints, including pharmacology and medications, law, patient safety, and quality assurance. - 700 electronic flashcards help you memorize key facts by covering the most commonly prescribed drugs, common herbals, abbreviations, and more. - NEW! UPDATED organization of content matches the newest exam blueprints. - NEW and UNIQUE! Comprehensive coverage prepares you for entry-level Pharmacy Technician certification, plus the sterile compounding specialty exam. - NEW! Online custom test generator creates timed, simulated exams built from exam blueprints and allows you to focus your practice on any areas of weakness. - EXPANDED! More than 2,600 review questions – all with answers and rationales – include a pretest, questions in each chapter, nine printed practice examinations, and unlimited practice and simulation online. - NEW Compounded Sterile Products chapter provides an in-depth review specifically for the CSPT exam. - NEW! Full-color illustrations visually reinforce important test information.
Offering the most realistic NBDHE review and practice available, Mosby's Review Questions for the National Board Dental Hygiene Examination includes both a print book and companion website to prepare you for exam success. In the book, you'll review with more than 1,250 Component A practice questions — with each answer including a rationale for both correct and incorrect answer options. Online, you can review the same questions plus an additional 420 case-based items related to Component B in 1) practice mode or 2) timed, exam-simulation mode with randomized tests that match the number and distribution of questions on the NBDHE. From a team of dental hygiene experts including lead editor Barbara Bennett, this Q&A resource is an excellent supplement to any NBDHE content review book! - More than 1,680 multiple-choice questions provide comprehensive practice spanning the entire NBDHE, with 1,250+ items relating to Component A — more than six times the number of questions on the actual exam! — and 420 case-based questions related to Component B. - Rationales accompany each question, fully explaining why each answer choice is either correct or incorrect and thus serving as secondary content review. - Distribution of questions matches each category on the NBDHE test specifications, ensuring that you have adequate practice for each content area. - An Evolve companion website includes all 1,250+ questions from the book plus additional case studies with color images and accompanying questions, available either in practice mode with instant feedback or in exam-simulation format with results and feedback provided at the end of the exam. - A test creator and timer on Evolve generates NBDHE-style tests that mimic the number and distribution of questions on the NBDHE and also provides realistic practice with time management during the exam. - 16 detailed case studies on Evolve, each of which includes a patient medical/dental history, completed periodontal chart, oral radiographs, clinical photographs, and 20-35 multiple-choice questions for patients in the five main categories covered on the NBDHE (adult periodontitis, pediatric, geriatric, special needs, and medically compromised). - References to text sources make it easy to review or find more information on specific topics.
With chapter-by-chapter review and practice, this easy-to-use workbook and lab manual reinforces your understanding of key facts and concepts from Mosby's Pharmacy Technician: Principles and Practice, 4th Edition. Chapter-specific lab exercises and skill check-off sheets correspond to procedures in the textbook, and a wide variety of review questions (including fill-in-the-blank, matching, true/false, and multiple-choice), exercises, and activities help you study more effectively and learn to apply your knowledge for success on the job. Practice with the most important subject areas taught in pharmacy technician programs prepares you for the PTCE and your future job. Critical thinking exercises help you apply what you’ve learned to real-life situations. Fill-in-the-blank, matching, true/false, and multiple-choice questions reinforce chapter material. UNIQUE! Internet research activities prepare you for research tasks you will encounter on the job. Math calculation exercises help you master this difficult area of pharmacology. NEW! Chapter-specific lab exercises give you applicable laboratory experience and practice. NEW! Skill check-off sheets let you track your progress with textbook procedures.
Covering everything you need to study for and pass the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) and ExCPT exams, Mosby's Review for the Pharmacy Technician Certification Examination, 3rd Edition makes exam preparation easy. Review the content you'll see on the exam with handy outlines, test-taking tips and strategies, and electronic flash cards. Written by noted pharmacy technician educator James J. Mizner, this complete review tests your knowledge and simulates the actual PTCB exam with 17 different, 100-question practice exams in the book and online. This edition is modeled after the updated Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam Blueprint. - A total of 1,700 review questions are included in 17 practice exams in the book and online. - 100-question format of each practice exam simulates the PTCB and ExCPT exams, with multiple-choice questions and the same balance of content, for a realistic test taking experience. - 700 electronic flash cards help you learn and remember facts by covering the top 200 most prescribed pharmaceuticals, top 50 herbals, abbreviations, and sound-alike drugs. - Review content reflects the new percentages covered on the PTCB exam. - A convenient outline format helps you to quickly review important information you'll see on the exam. - Tips and suggestions prepare you for test-taking success by providing an insider's perspective on what to expect and how to prepare for your exam when you have limited time. - Seven practice exams in the book feature the same format and content emphasis as the national exam. - Ten practice exams on the Evolve companion website in both timed and untimed modes help you identify any areas of weakness, and include instant feedback and remediation. - UPDATED content includes current drug information and pharmacy practice procedures based on the new Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam Blueprint. - NEW! Chapter objectives provide a clear breakdown of content and goals for review.
From bestselling test preparation author, James J. Mizner, comes Mosby's® Advanced Pharmacy Technician Exam Review. Available to Pharmacy Technicians with at least three years of work experience, the Advanced Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT-Adv) credential provides a pathway for obtaining higher-level skills and advancing your career. This new resource gives you the review and practice you need to prepare for the exam with an easy-to-use format, sample certification exams, content review chapters, and more. Make sure you're ready for exam and career success with this essential review! - Custom test generator on the Evolve companion website features practice and exam modes and timer functionality to strengthen topic expertise and simulate nearly unlimited unique exams for practice. - Sample certification exams in the book offer valuable test-taking experience. - Dedicated chapter covering sterile compounding addresses an alternative pathway to certification as a Compounded Sterile Preparation Technician (CSPT). - Content review chapters cover many advanced-level certification topics. - Chapter review questions help reinforce knowledge and assess comprehension. - Many practice questions are available both in the print book and online for convenient access. - Bulleted listing format makes it easy to focus on reviewing the essentials.