A Unique And Simplified Approach to Pharmacy Calculations for Healthcare Professionals is designed to unmask and untangle math calculations involving medications using a very simplified approach. It uses a systematic and logical process involving proportion principles to solve different kinds of pharmacy math problem, thus making the book ideal for all healthcare students and professionals despite backgrounds. This simplified, professional and easy-to-understand book will be ideal for the instruction of students preparing to be pharmacists, pharmacy assistants, pharmacy technicians, nurses and students in other allied professions. A non-professional will also find in this book the principle at play in everyday calculations of proportions, ratios and percentages. This work text will be a very good reference calculation hand book for healthcare professionals practicing at various fields that deal with medications. The authors coaching experiences in pharmacy math calculation and compounding, as well as their practical exposure in the clinical, community and academic practice settings makes this book a compact, rare blend of theoretical and practical instructional material. I recommend this book to all healthcare professionals that handle medications and all educational institutions that offer courses involving pharmaceutical calculations.

This resource makes the difficult concept of drug dosage calculations easy to understand and master by utilizing a simple four-step method that focuses only on the information necessary for learning the skill. It has been class tested on hundreds of students. KEY TOPICS: Hundreds of practice problems are included that incorporate realistic patient scenarios, protocols, and the latest trends in treatment management. A worked out answer section clearly shows the step by step process of problem solving. Topics include: Calculating the Desired Dose, Calculating the Concentration, Calculating the cc's, Calculating the Drip Rate. A Final Review Section tests comprehension. MARKET: Paramedics, nurses, students, and any other healthcare professional who administers medication.

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This entertaining guide is now more fun, more up-to-date, and even easier to use -- an indispensable resource for nurses who want to take the stress out of dosage calculations. New to this edition are a chapter on dimensional analysis; numerous lighthearted learning aids called "Cheat Sheets"; and "Practice Makes Perfect" -- case study questions and answers that let nurses assess their progress. Contents include math basics; measurement systems; drug orders and administration records; calculating oral, topical, and rectal drug dosages; calculating parenteral injections and I.V. infusions; and calculating pediatric, obstetric, and critical care dosages.

Intended for use in an introductory pharmacy technician calculations course, this unique book addresses not only calculations that technicians will encounter in retail, but also those necessary for compounding, IV, industry and areas where a pharmacy technician might be called upon more frequently because of the shortage of pharmacy professionals.

Retaining the successful previous editions' programmed instructional format, this book improves and updates an authoritative textbook to keep pace with compounding trends and calculations – addressing real-world calculations pharmacists perform and allowing students to learn at their own pace through examples. Connects well with the current emphasis on self-paced and active learning in pharmacy schools Adds a new chapter dedicated to practical calculations used in contemporary compounding, new appendices, and solutions and answers for all problems Maintains value for teaching pharmacy students the principles while also serving as a reference for review by students in preparation for licensure exams Rearranges chapters and rewrites topics of the previous edition, making its content ideal to be used as the primary textbook in a typical dosage calculations course for any health care professional Reviews of the prior edition: "...a well-structured approach to the topic..." (Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy) and "...a perfectly organized manual that serves as a expert guide..." (Electric Review)