Pharmacy Calculations 2nd Edition

An Introduction for Pharmacy Technicians

Matthew Rewald, Bradley Lorang, Garrett Schramm
ASHP
240 pages
ISBN: 978-1585286386
May 2021

This book provides students with the pharmacy basics necessary for correctly interpreting prescriptions and drug orders, and for performing dosing calculations that technicians face every day. This 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.