The second edition of the Complete Math Review for the Pharmacy Technician is a self-instruction guide to pharmacy calculations.

Key Features:

• Thoroughly covers every topic related to pharmacy calculations that a pharmacy technician needs to know
• Contains 650 practice problems—an increase of 150 over the first edition—spread throughout the book’s 13 chapters, with answer key/solutions in the back
• New to this edition: each chapter ends with an Advanced Practice section, providing an additional 10 exercises to test readers’ understanding
• New chapter: “Medication Errors and Clinical Challenges” tests readers’ ability to recognize medication calculation errors sometimes made by nurses, pharmacists, and physicians
• Concludes with a 101-question “post-test,” each question being a real-world problem a technician might encounter in pharmacy practice
• Written in a user-friendly style with numerous illustrations

Contents

1. Back to Basics
2. Systems of Measurement
3. Ration and Proportion
4. Interpreting Drug Orders and Calculating Doses
5. Reducing and Enlarging Formulas and Compounding
6. Reconstitution of Dry Powders
7. Intravenous Flow Rates
8. Percentage Calculations
9. Concentrations and Dilutions
10. Electrolyte Solutions
11. Temperature Conversions
12. Business Math
13. Medication Errors and Clinical Challenges

Appendix
Posttest
Answer Key
Index

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