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Pharmaceutical Calculations (PHARMACEUTICAL CALCULATIONS)
The gold standard textbook in its area for sixty years, Pharmaceutical Calculations is now in its Twelfth Edition. Every chapter has been revised and updated to reflect the basic calculations applicable to the contemporary practice of pharmacy. This edition provides expanded coverage of enteral and parenteral nutrition. New features include "Calculations Capsules" -boxed summaries of the type of calculation presented in each chapter, and "A Case in Point" -practical cases with step-by-step solutions to demonstrate each type of calculation. Review exercises at the end of the book are completely updated. This edition includes answers to all practice and review problems. .
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Dosage Calculations
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Calculate with Confidence, Fourth Edition
Calculate with Confidence provides a clear consistent format with a step-by-step approach to the calculation and administration of drug dosages It covers the ratio and proportion, formula, and dimensional analysis methods. This popular text focuses on enhancing the learning experience of students at all curricular levels by making content clinically applicable. Concepts relating to critical thinking, logical thinking, and nursing process are presented throughout. New practice problems have been added throughout this edition and rationales for the answers continue to be provided giving the students a better understanding of principles related to drug dosages. This fourth edition addresses the increasing responsibility of nurses in medication and administration; it emphasizes the priority for client care, and presents material that reflects the current scope of the nursing practice. The NEW student CD-ROM packaged with each book contains numerous interactive exercises and a comprehensive post-test. - A clear and consistent, step-by-step approach to calculations and administration makes it easy to understand.
- Ratio and Proportion, Formula, and Dimensional Analysis content provides students with well-rounded coverage.
- Pretest and post-test help identify strengths and weaknesses in competency of basic math before and assess their comprehension after Unit One: Math Review.
- Points to Remember boxes highlighted in each chapter help students remember important concepts.
- Critical thinking information that should be applied in the clinical setting to help avoid drug calculation and administration errors is boxed throughout the text.
- Full-color illustrations, photographs, and drug labels familiarize students with what they'll encounter in the clinical setting.
- Current Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) recommendations are followed, such as avoiding certain abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols to help ensure patient safety and quality of care
- Dimensional analysis method has been added to examples throughout the book providing an alternative method to converting and calculating dosages without the need to memorize a formula
- Content added to the Medication Administration chapter on the latest techniques and measures being used to prevent medication errors
- The Basic IV Calculations chapter has been reorganized into smaller sections to allow mastery of relevant content and calculations
- Content on the calculation of Heparin dosages according to weight and the calculation of meds by IV push has been added
- Syringes have been redrawn for a more accurate, realistic look
- Current drug labels are included reflecting the latest drugs used on the market
- A new Drug Calculations Student CD-ROM is packaged with every copy of the text. This user friendly, interactive student tutorial includes an extensive menu of various topic areas within drug calculations such as oral, parenteral, pediatric, and intravenous calculations. Covering the ratio and proportion, formula, and dimensional analysis methods, this CD contains 565 practice problems including a comprehensive post-test
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Ansel's Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms and Drug Delivery Systems
Long established as a core text for pharmaceutics courses, this book is the most comprehensive source on pharmaceutical dosage forms and drug delivery systems. Each chapter in this revised Eighth Edition includes two case studies—one clinical and one pharmaceutical. Content coincides with the CAPE, APhA, and NAPLEX competencies. This edition includes updated drug information and expanded sections on parenterals, excipients, liposomes, and biopharmaceutics. Coverage incorporates all new dosage forms in the current USP Pharmacopoeia-National Formulary. Capsules and tablets are now covered in separate chapters. The thoroughly revamped illustration program includes new product and manufacturing equipment photographs. .
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Foye's Principles of Medicinal Chemistry (Lemke, Foye's Principles of Medicinal Chemistry)
This comprehensive the Sixth Edition of this well-known text has been fully revised and updated to meet the changing curricula of medicinal chemistry courses. Emphasis is on patient-focused pharmaceutical care and on the pharmacist as a therapeutic consultant, rather than a chemist. A new disease state management section explains appropriate therapeutic options for asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and men's and women's health problems. Also new to this edition: Clinical Significance boxes, Drug Lists at the beginning of appropriate chapters, and an eight-page color insert with detailed illustrations of drug structures. NEW TO THIS EDITION: Case studies from previous editions and answers to this edition's case studies will be available online at thePoint. New section on Disease State Management (Part IV) helps students understand how asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and women's and men health issues can be treated with appropriate therapeutic options. 8-page color insert contains detailed illustrations of drug structures covered within the text. Clinical Significance boxes show students how the content in each of the chapters relates to effective pharmaceutical care. Drug Lists at the beginning of appropriate chapters are bulleted lists that provide students with a summary of the drugs covered within the chapter. .
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Introduction to Health Care Delivery: A Primer for Pharmacists
This revised edition of Introduction to Health Care Delivery: A Primer for Pharmacists offers a current and comprehensive picture of the U.S. health care delivery system while emphasizing the perspective of the pharmacy profession. Each thoroughly updated chapter in the new edition of this practical text includes real-world case studies, learning objectives, chapter questions, questions for further discussion, and updated key topics and terms. New to the Fourth Edition is an updated Medicare/Medicaid chapter that reflects current regulations, a comprehensive glossary, and online instructor resources including case response scenarios..
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Dimensional Analysis for Meds
Discover the latest from best selling author Anna M. Curren! Add a dimension to your knowledge With Curren's Dimensional Analysis for Meds, Third Edition, you find out just how easy it can be to calculate dosages correctly No prior knowledge of calculation is necessary, as a building-block organization is employed to cover basic facts and tips regarding drug measures, reading medication labels, and syringe calibrations. Once competency is established, more complex concepts are presented, such as intravenous and pediatric calculations, as well as numerous opportunities to practice your new skills. A conversational style accompanies this effective learning progression, revealing Dimensional Analysis for Meds as simply the most effective tool for learning dosage calculations..
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Martin's Physical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
This text is the most comprehensive resource on the application of physical chemical principles in the various branches of pharmacy It helps students, teachers, researchers, and manufacturing pharmacists use the elements of mathematics, chemistry, and physics in their work and study. This edition thoroughly examines basic physical pharmacy principles, equilibria phenomena, kinetic phenomena, dispersed systems, and drug delivery, and relates the pharmaceutical sciences to biological phenomena. New chapters cover biopharmaceutics and bioavailability; molecular and cellular biopharmaceutics; transporters and metabolizing enzymes; molding and compaction; and drug delivery systems. Significantly updated and revised review questions for each chapter are available in the book and on connection.LWW.com. .
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Calculation of Drug Dosages: A Work Text
Gain the practical skills you need to competently and confidently calculate drug dosages, even if you dislike math. All it takes is practice - and Calculation of Drug Dosages, 8th Edition gives you the most practice of any drug calculation book available! First, it provides an extensive review of essential math concepts before introducing and clearly explaining the ratio and proportion, formula, and dimensional analysis methods of drug calculation. The book's popular "worktext" format builds on concepts as you go and reinforces what you learn with over 2,000 practice problems in the book and on the accompanying CD-ROM. - An extensive math review reinforces basic math skills that are essential for accurate drug dosage calculation. Once you've identified your strengths and weaknesses on the pretest, it's easy to work toward improving specific competencies.
- Chapter worksheets provide ample opportunities to practice solving realistic problems.
- Posttests at the end of most chapters help you assess your understanding of chapter content.
- Content is organized in a progression from simple to complex, building on prior knowledge and applying it to new material so you retain more of what you've learned.
- A Comprehensive Posttest at the end of the book provides additional practice and accurately gauges your understanding of key concepts.
- Learning objectives explain what you should have accomplished upon completion of each chapter.
- A glossary in the back of the book defines important terms.
- An answer key provides step-by-step solutions for practice problems presented in the worksheets and posttests, shown in both the ratio and proportion and formula methods. Answers only are provided for the comprehensive posttest.
- Current Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) recommendations emphasize the importance of avoiding ambiguous abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols that could result in medication errors.
- The Safety in Medication Administration chapter helps you reduce the possibility of medical errors or injuries by providing information on specific measures to take to protect your patients.
- More than 200 practice problems have been added to this edition for even more practice, bringing the total number of problems to over 2,000.
- Additional content on calculating medications for neonates based on weight in grams helps you accurately calculate dosages for low birth weight infants.
- A set of 18 tear-out flash cards, perforated in the back of the book, offers a flexible, convenient way to study and memorize abbreviations, formulas, and conversions found in the book.
- Updated drug labels and equipment photos throughout the book reflect the latest drugs and technology used in the market.
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