Lab Experiences For The Pharmacy Technician

Download or read book Lab Experiences for the Pharmacy Technician written by Mary E. Mohr and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with practical, hands-on laboratory exercises, this book is an ideal laboratory manual for pharmacy technician education programs. It covers the laboratory skills technicians need to dispense retail prescriptions, inpatient medication orders, I.V. admixtures, and extemporaneous compounds and measure, mix, mold, package, and label medications. Chapters include step-by-step laboratory exercises and pre-lab and post-lab questions to promote critical thinking. Also included are role-playing scenarios to fine-tune students' patient communication skills. An appendix provides instructors with lists of required equipment and chemicals necessary to create a lab.