Pharmacy Calculations

Offering a complete review of the basic mathematics concepts and skills, Pharmacy Calculations: An Introduction for Pharmacy Technicians, Second Edition provides students with the pharmacy basics necessary for correctly interpreting prescriptions and drug orders, and for performing dosing calculations that technicians face every day.

The second edition has been streamlined to focus on the most important pharmacy calculation concepts—covering the fundamentals related to accuracy and basic math operations, units of measurement and conversions, critical thinking in problem solving, dosing calculations, percentages, concentration calculations, compounding formulas, intravenous infusion calculations, and business math.

What's new in this edition?

The chapters are broken down into four units and organized to complement most pharmacy technician training curricula and to support the ASHP—ACPE model curriculum:

Review of MathematicsSystems of MeasurementPreparing for Problem Solving in PharmacyDosing Calculations and other Pharmacy ProblemsKey features throughout the book include:

Chapter objectives

Key terms and definitionsExamples of problem scenarios or calculations questions and solutions"Tech Note!" – provides a highlight of key points within the chapters"Numbers at Work" – illustrates why key concepts are important to know and skills are critical to masterPractice problemsAppendices that include the parts of a prescription, a glossary of terms, conversions, and abbreviations tables