Standards of practice for the pharmacy technician / Mary E. Mohr.
"This book prepares you to take on the growing responsibilities of a pharmacy technician, assisting pharmacists in providing pharmaceutical care to patients with confidence and professionalism. The text not only explains the standards and scope of pharmacy technician practice, it also offers in...
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Philadelphia :
Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott William & Wilkins,
©2010.
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| Series: | LWW pharmacy technician education series.
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Table of Contents:
- Pharmacy history
- Pharmacy of today and tomorrow
- Professional roles in the pharmacy
- Pharmacy law
- Differentiating law and ethics
- Confidentiality and HIPAA
- The right medication to the right patient at the right time : communicating clearly
- The right dosage form and the right route of administration : working with accuracy
- At the right price : handling payment
- Medication error prevention
- Over-the-counter medications, herbal products, and diagnostic aids
- Outpatient prescriptions
- Inpatient hospital and homecare prescription processing
- Inventory control
- Compounding equipment and use
- Solutions, syrups, and suspensions
- Dry powders, capsules, and lozenges
- Ointments, creams, gels, pastes, and suppositories
- Introduction to microbiology and aseptic technique
- USP chapter 797 guidelines for compounded sterile products
- Large- and small-volume parenterals
- Total parenteral nutrition
- Compounding sterile chemotherapeutic products
- Professional organizations and education
- Expanding horizons for technicians.